IPR and Patenting

 

IPR - Intellectual Property Rights

Innovation and intellectual property rights in biotechnology: For PhD students who are interested in how an idea can be turned into a commercial product, how the patenting process works and how to get financing for developing an idea.

 

Purpose

The course will stimulate integration of patenting and innovation in the research laboratories and enable the course participants to tap into the knowledgebase that patents represent.

 

Content

The main themes of the course are:

 

• The steps required in developing a biotechnological product.
• Defining and identifying a commercially interesting problem.
• Navigating the patent landscape surrounding the product.
• Introduction to business plans and how to raise venture capital for the company.

Program for the course in January 2012

 

Participants

PhD students. Others may participate if vacant seats are available.

 

Teachers

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.

 

Information and registration

This course is organized by the Graduate School of Life Sciences in collaboration with the Research School FOBI. Registration is done through the . Further information from the course coordinator , Department of Plan Biology and Biotechnology.

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Course details

Credit: 4 ECTS.

Venue: LIFE.

Number of participants: 30.

Date: 23-27 January 2012.

Registration deadline: 19 January 2012.

Course fee: Free for PhD students from University of Copenhagen. Faculty from University of Copenhagen: DKK 2.000 DKK. Industrial biotechnologists: DKK 6.000 plus VAT. PhD students from Open Market partners (incl. NOVA): DKK 6.700 plus VAT. Others: DKK 8.000 plus VAT. 

Full course description: LIFE course database.