Patentkursus

Innovation and intellectual property rights in biotechnology

Place: The Faculty of Life Library, Frederiksberg

Time: 28 January - 1 February 2008

 

Course objectives

The one-week course in patenting and innovation is a joint effort between Copenhagen University and Lund University and is supported by Øresund Entrepreneurship. The course targets PhD-students as well as lecturers and professors who supervise master and PhD-projects in the general area of biotechnology.

 

It is the purpose of the course to stimulate integration of patenting and innovation in the research laboratories and enable the course participants to tap into the knowledgebase that patents represent. The participants will further be made familiar with the steps required in developing a biotechnological product, including knowledge about defining and identifying a commercially interesting problem, navigating the patent landscape surrounding the product and how to either license the resulting intellectual property rights or alternatively use them as a basis for a new company. The course will finally address the writing of a business plan and raising venture capital for the new company.

Teaching And Learning Methods

The course is taught through a series of lectures with parallel case studies. Patenting and use of patent literature is taught in computer exercises. It is the aim of the course to endow the participants with concrete skills in finding patents and patent applications, recognizing relevant document types and judging the strength of the patents or applications on the basis of an understanding of the patenting process. Case studies of business plans and the founding of new biotech companies will be supplemented with discussions with invited entrepreneurs.

 

Peter Horn Møller, head of Life Sciences & Chemistry in the patent agency Plougman & Vingtoft, is the recurrent lecturer in patenting. Other lectures and exercises will be given by university researchers with entrepreneurial experience, librarians and Tech Trans experts from both Sweden and Denmark and covering both biology sciences and business school.

 

For more information, contact Peter Ulvskov, . 35 33 25 80

Registration: Write to Peter Ottesen,