NAT803: Patenting (5 ECTS)

STADS: 01004101

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.

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Timetable
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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
None

Course introduction
This course will present the basic techniques needed to create value (intellectual property) out of research. These techniques include how to responsibly handle data, use standard operating procedures, manage a project; determine what can be patented, understand the patent system, how to write and read a patent; how to use a patent.

Expected learning outcome
On completion of the course, a student will be expected to be able to:

• Compile raw data and manipulate it in scientifically and legally acceptable manner

• Guide a project from planning to completion, paying attention to timelines and budget

• Explain the patent system and what can and cannot be patented

• Write a patent application

• Use a patent to create commercial value from research data

• Be an efficient sparring partner for a patent agent

Subject overview
Systematic data filing; SOPs; Project management techniques; Legal requirements relating to data storage, and inventions made in public institutions; what is a patent, novelty and the inventive step; understanding patent language; the life of a patent, novelty searches using on line international databases; different types of patent and various strategies for using patents.

Literature
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Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
Projects will be presented and discussed in plenum and be evaluated by censors and teachers in the form of a ‘Dragon’s Den’ (passed/not passed)

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.

Forelæsninger (32 timer)
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Language
This course is taught in English.

Course enrollment
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