Duration
15h Th, 10h Mon. WS
Number of credits
| Doctoral training in sciences (BMCB) | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course intends to teach to the Scientist the rules of Intellectual Property by cases analysis and to give him the opportunity to implement them into its scientific results. Particular focus is on technology management versus patent strategy.
More specificaly the course comprises the following teachings:
- Intellectual Property and exclusive right: copyright, trademarks, patent, supplementary protection certificate, trade secret.
- Research Exemption
- more specifically patentability of life science: medical applications, pharmaceutical products, gene therapy, plants, microorganisms and the Budapest Treaty, ...
- Nagoya protocol on access to genetic ressource
- more specifically patentability of computer-based invention.
- management technology: lab book and its legal environment, management of results versus IP strategy, confidentiality management..
- patentability conditions: technical character, novelty, inventive step, industrial application, sufficiency of disclosure
- Three types of patent prosecution: national, regional and international. Different strategy, steps in patent prosecution and time constraints, priority right and Paris Convention.
- EU patent package:Unitary Patent in Europe, and Unified Patent Court for early 2018.
- Licence/assignment: definition, types, royalties (return according Rule of 3 third) -
- freedom to operate and infringment: definition, types, examples, customs and border protection.
- methods of patent valuation
- IP uses (exclusivity, licensing, sales, croslinking, franchising, compulsory licensing...)
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
-to understand what is Intellectual Property.
-to be aware of the actions to be taken to protect scientific results in view of their valorisation and license.
-to be able to read and analyse patents.
-to be able to detect what is patentable.
-to be able to define the best IP strategy
The participant will be able to identify and to describe a patentable invention with an economic interest for a potential licensee.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
english knowledge
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Exercices(cases studies) are organised during the course to better assimilate the teached IP notions and how to implement them.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
notes + referenses
are available on e-campus at:
https://www.ecampus.ulg.ac.be:8443/webapps/portal/execute/tabs/tabAction?tab_tab_group_id=_1_1
oral examination
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Nicole Antheunis
E-mail: n.antheunis@ulg.ac.be