Dear Marie Curie Fellow,
We would like to take this opportunity to inform you of an important workshop on Intellectual Property Rights and Patenting, which has been designed by the European Patent Academy (an arm of the European Patent Office) in conjunction with the European Commission specifically for researchers who are, or have been, involved in the Marie Curie Actions
The 2 day workshop will be aimed at researchers in European research centres and laboratories, have a practical perspective and aims to be useful to the broadest scientific base.
The workshop will take place on 17 / 18 November in Munich, Germany. To cover the costs we would like to advise you that a participation fee of about EUR 300 per person will have to be paid to the organisers. The number of places will be strictly limited to 20 and so it is important to register your interests as early as possible.
These costs, plus the cost of travel and accommodation, would be allowable costs under your Marie Curie fellowship scheme if you are a current fellowship holder. You should seek the agreement of your supervisor if you decide to attend of course..
We enclose below a preliminary programme, and some background for the event.
In case you are interested please write an e-mail to Mike Rogers (firstname.lastname@ec.europa.eu) with the subject line "Seminar AS64-2008 Marie Curie IPR".
yours,
MCFA Office
Draft Programme (Version 13.08.08)
Monday, 17 November 2008
09.00 Registration
European Patent Academy
09.10 Welcome and introduction to the seminar
Noël Campling, Director Know-How, European Patent Academy
09.15 The European Patent Office
Noël Campling, Director Know-How, European Patent Academy
09.30 Intellectual Property matters: opportunities for researchers
Jeremy Philpott, European Patent Academy
11.30 Coffee break
11.45 The other ways to protect ideas
Jeremy Philpott, European Patent Academy
12.45 Lunch break
13.45 Motives for patent applications
Annette Kur, Max-Planck Institute or Karin Hoisl, LMU
15.00 Coffee break
15.15 Ways of exploiting your research results
Austria Wirtschaftsservice Vienna
16.15 Ownership, inventorship and agreements within the Marie Curie projects
EC representative to be announced if desired
17.00 End of the seminar day
19:30 Dinner
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
09.00 From laboratory to market place: commercializing your invention
Case study
Representative of Bayern Patent or Alexandros Papaderos, TTO of Technische Universit?t M?nchen
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Evaluating inventions from universities, licensing and spin-offs.
Austria Wirtschaftsservice Vienna
11.45 Better research through patent information: access to knowledge, partners and markets
Norbert Hansen, Maiwald Patentanwälte
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Training: how to use the patent database esp@cenet
EPO examiner
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 Careers for scientist in the IP professions
Dr. Benedikt Neuburger, Zimmerman und Partner
Peter Burkhardt, EPO München.
Alexandros Papaderos, TU of TTO, Munich
17.00 End of the seminar day
Evaluation session
(Presentation of certificates)
European Patent Academy
Closure
Noël Campling, Director Know-How, European Patent Academy
Background information:
Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for Marie Curie fellows
1) Overall Objective
The general objective of this workshop is to promote IP knowledge and to foster entrepreneurship among Marie Curie fellows by providing training on intellectual property rights by the EPO.
2) Background
This workshop is based on the findings that among researchers there is a considerable lack of information why and how to protect research results, how to exploit commercially the intellectual property rights (IPR) and even how to make strategic use of the enormous information, published in patent applications, for the benefit of R&D projects.
Most universities and research institutions in Europe are now entering a stage where they will be expected to interact more closely with industrial partners and technology transfer institutions to commercialize their inventions and research findings.
It is therefore of crucial importance for a knowledge based society to raise awareness among academic communities that research is associated with the protection and commercialization of R&D results.
Thus, the incorporation of training modules on subjects of intellectual property rights are deemed to be of high relevance for scientists.
3) The European Patent Academy and its objectives
The European Patent Organisation (EPO) set up the European Patent Academy (http://academy.epo.org) to foster education and training in the field of patent-related intellectual property rights. The Academy draws on the expertise and wide range of contacts built up by the European Patent Office (www.european-patent-office.org) and its 34 member states offices.
Among its target groups, researchers play an important role. The Academy develops and implements courses on patent-related intellectual property issues with the aim to support innovation and investment in R&D.
The Academy sees as its mission to educate researchers and university staff for a better understanding of IPR issues involved in the R&D process and its exploitation.
4) Workshop programme and its objective
The 2-day training programme run by the EPO thus gears towards researchers from the respective universities and envisages to raise awareness among this group on patent-related intellectual property issues.
On the first day, the course will focus on the different means of protection rights, addressing also informal means of protection. It will show that patents are an important source of information for scientists.
The second day of the course will focus on existing IP databases and how to use these search and documentation tools.
Furthermore, the participants will learn how to read a patent in order to be able to get the necessary information for their own research and evaluate research results and inventions. The course will also show examples that demonstrate a successful implementation of an innovation process and how strategic exploitation as, e.g., patent licensing works. Furthermore, it will elaborate on various career opportunities of scientists in the IP field.
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