Developing IP reflexes, playing a team sport
Audience:
· Engineers – Researchers, (1/2 day-1 day, depending on application)
Acquiring current basics regarding industrial/intellectual property. Managing intangible assets. A fit, somewhere between the economic model and protecting creations. Detecting creations. Writing a technical dissertation. Patents, secrets, publication procedure. Creating the rights portfolio review. Confidentiality contract. Interacting with its ecosystem (Intern, service providers, partners, buyers). Search strategy, prior art, state of the art, freedom of utilisation and monitoring. Practical cases and examples enrich each item.
Patent delivery procedure
· Audience: Legal experts, Patent correspondents, IP managers (1/2 day-2 days, depending on application)
Introduction to different intellectual/industrial property tools. Patent law. Delivery procedures (FR, EP, WO, US). Search and examination procedure. Extension strategies. Observation of third parties, opposition, divisional. Infringement (Act, Materiality, Action). Freedom of utilisation. Contractual basics regarding industrial/intellectual property clauses. Tools for searching for technical knowledge – Patent databases.
Protecting software & technical data
· Audience: Team managers, Developers, Directors, Legal experts (1/2 day-1 day, depending on application)
Introduction to different intellectual/industrial property tools. Focus on software protection by copyright. Focus on software protection by patents. Protecting graphic interfaces. Optimising protection according to development contexts and services (Cloud, Mobile Apps, Software package, IoT, etc.). Protecting databases, protecting data. Compared laws and optimising protection in the main countries: FR, EP, US. French, European and American case law. Licence contracts & software transfer. Author/inventor status in the company. Practical cases and examples enrich each item.
Protecting Innovations in the medical sector
· Audience: Team managers, Directors, Legal experts, Doctors, Researchers, Engineers (1/2 day-1 day, depending on application)
Introduction to different intellectual/industrial property tools. Focus on specifics in the field of patentable inventions as regards methods (therapeutic, surgical, diagnostics), Exceptions. FR, EP, US law and international practices. Defining law internationally. Optimising legal protection in the framework of developing an economic model. Licence & transfer agreements. Status of the inventing doctor. Practical cases and examples enrich each item.
Protecting Innovations in the telecommunications sector
· Audience: Team managers, Directors, Legal experts, Developers and Engineers (1/2 day-1 day, depending on application)
Introduction to different intellectual/industrial property tools. Focus on the specifics of inventions in the telecommunications field. Optimising the protection of different components and devices in the telecommunications field. Specific telecommunications cases: delivering operational law to different actors. FR, EP, US law and international practices. Optimising legal protection in elaborating an economic model. Licence & transfer agreements. FRAND licence, Essential patents. Practical cases and examples enrich each item.
Protecting Innovations in the Aerospace sector
· Audience: Team managers, Directors, Legal experts, Engineers (1/2 day-1 day, depending on application)
Introduction to different intellectual/industrial property tools. Focus on the specifics of inventions in the aerospace field. Optimising the protection of different components and devices designed to be utilised in space. Specific cases of technologies integrated in aircraft and inventions in the field of space. Delivering operational law to different actors. Infringement actions. FR, EP, US law and international practices. Optimising legal protection in the framework of an economic model. Licence & transfer agreements. Practical cases and examples enrich each item.