| Responsible Department | LIFE Graduate School
0 % Peter Horn Møller, head of Life Sciences & Chemistry in the patent agency Plougman & Vingtoft 100 % |
| Course Dates | January 24-28, 2011 |
| Course Abstract | 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. |
| Course Home Page | http://www.dias.kvl.dk/iprforphds.html |
| Course Registration | To sign up for the course, please send an e-mail to IPR-patenting-course@life.ku.dk |
| Deadline for Registration | January 15, 2011 |
| Credits | 4 (ECTS) |
| Level of Course | PhD course |
| Language of Instruction | English |
| Course Content | |
| 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. | |
| Teaching and learning Methods | |
| Lectures and computer exercises | |
| Learning Outcome | |
| The aim of the course is to: . make participants familiar with the steps required in developing a biotechnological product . provide knowledge about defining and identifying a commercially interesting problem . enable the participants in navigating the patent landscape surrounding the product . introduction to business plans and raising venture capital for the new company | |
| Course Coordinator | |
| Solveig Krogh Christiansen, soc@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Plant Biotech Denmark, Phone: 353-33378 | |
| Other Lecturers | |
| Peter Ulvskov, Peter Horn Møller, university researchers with entrepreneurial experience, librarians and Tech Trans experts from both Sweden and Denmark | |
| Type of Evaluation | |
| Written exam | |