Patent Law in the Natural Sciences

Skills in intellectual property law remain the most important business skills for scientists in order to turn innovative ideas and inventions into sustainable business concepts and sustainable markets.

Details

Description

Intellectual Property (IP) such as patents, trademarks or trade secrets remain critical for the sustainable success of every innovative business. Own IP is an asset that helps keep competition at a distance, but likewise companies must also avoid competitors' IP. Scientists in both academia and industry need to understand key IP concepts to make full use of their ideas and avoid costly mistakes. Dr. Tilman Breitenstein has been responsible for high-value IP at Bayer, DSM and BASF. He today counsels Start-ups with his own company Scalable IP. In this seminar he will provide a practical and theoretical overview that many previous participants found useful both for their university studies and later career. The course is held in English. English special vocabulary is studied. The seminar concludes with an online final test on the last seminar date.

Central issues

  • Intellectual Property (IP) and its impact
  • Innovation and how to protect it
  • Trade secrets
  • German, European and international proceedings
  • What is meant with "Freedom-to-operate"?
  • How to read, write and destroy a patent?
  • German Employee Invention Act and Contracts
  • A patent attorney's job
  • Cooperation: research - development - patent division

Course description, lecturers, dates and venue

Key data

  • Course language: English 
  • 20 participants
  • Duration: 19 hours, four dates
  • Lecturer: Dr. T. Breitenstein
  • Course number: 80001

Criteria for the allocation of places

Dates

28.02. + 07.03. + 14.03. + 21.03.2025

Registration possible from 01 Aug. 2024!