Patents as a Competitive Instrument - Spain

How to protect your innovations using intellectual property as an economic asset

Intellectual property (IP) rights are powerful economic assets. This workshop will give an overview over the various types of intellectual property rights including patents, trade marks, designs, copyright, and outline strategies for obtaining the best possible protection for innovative ideas, for the enforcement of intellectual property rights and for the economic exploitation of such rights.

Using a case study, delegates will analyse a situation of various competitors in an industry and develop a patent strategy. By practising with real world patent documents you quickly gain experience in assessing and analysing patents.

Workshop focus
Intellectual property

* Patents
* Trade marks
* Utility models
* Design patents
* Copyright law

Prosecution strategies to protect intellectual property

* Territoriality / Jurisdiction
* Costs
* Patent vs. Know-How
* Patent strategie:
* Freedom-to-Operate-Analysis
* Scope-of-Protection-Analysis
* Inventing around
* Co-operation
* Licensing

Protection of intellectual property

* Litigation strategies
* Comparison between the legal systems of Europe and the United States

Patent Investigation

* Patent databases
* Search strategies
* Analysis of patent statistics

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