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NAT806: Patenting - transforming ideas into products (5 ECTS)

STADS: 01016101

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.

Teacher responsible

Email: sjf@bmb.sdu.dk

Additional teachers

kwr@bmb.sdu.dk

Timetable

Group	Type	Day	Time	Classroom	Weeks
Common	I	Monday	09-15	U155	6
Common	I	Monday	15-16	U44	7
Common	I	Monday	10-15	U44	7
Common	I	Monday	10-15	U48	7
Common	I	Tuesday	10-16	U155	6
Common	I	Tuesday	10-14	U155	7
Common	I	Wednesday	10-16	U155	5-6
Common	I	Thursday	10-16	U155	5-6
Common	I	Friday	10-12	U155	5
Common	I	Friday	10-14	U155	6

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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:

The course builds on the knowledge acquired during scientific endeavours, and gives an academic basis for the identification of results of potential value for commercialisation.

Potential candidates are expected to have some academic experience, preferably a bachelor degree or similar.

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.

The course builds on the knowledge acquired during scientific endeavours, and gives an academic basis for the identification of results of potential value for commercialisation. The course focusses on the different forms of maximising this value (keep secret, publish or patent) and how it can be utilised for the benefit of our society through application of the results and their commercialisation.

The course also highlights the differences between the academic and commercial worlds and the different forces that drive the two.

In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:

Give the entrepreneurial skills needed to start a company based on scientific results or to provide the skill set needed to be prepared for the negotiated sale of these results.
Give competence to identify scientific results of commercial value
To decide a strategy for their exploitation
To evaluate the novelty and inventive step in the results
To be able to read and understand the patent literature and its particular language
To write a draft patent
To negotiate in a complex situation where there is no clear ideal result

Expected learning outcome
Ved kursets afslutning forventes den studerende at kunne:

Indsamle rådata og bearbejde datamaterialet på en videnskabeligt og juridisk acceptabel måde
Styre et projekt fra planlægning til færdiggørelse og være opmærksom på tidsplaner og budget
Kende rettigheder og pligter forbundet med samarbejde
Forklare patentsystemet samt hvad der kan og ikke kan patenteres
Skrive et udkast til en patentansøgning
Anvende et patent til at skabe forretningsmæssig værdi på baggrund af forskningsdata
Være en effektiv sparringspartner for patent-agenten

Subject overview

The following main topics are contained in the course:

Systematic data filing; GLP-procedures: DB, EP and SOPs type of documentation
Project management techniques
Working in a team
Legal requirements relating to data storage
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 online international databases
Different types of patent
Various strategies for using patent

Literature
There isn't any litterature for the course at the moment.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam

Participation in laboratory exercises.
Project report.

Assessment and marking:

Oral exam, marking, 7-mark scale, Student own project report. Allowed exam aids student own project report.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 20 hours
Skills training phase: 40 hours, hereof:
- Laboratory exercises: 40 hours

Educational activities
Self-study in order to prepare for laboratory exercises

Preparation of project report

The report should contain fictive patent idea with defined patent claims, and possible commercialisation strategy for described idea

Preparation to the oral exam

Students will prepare to discuss their project report based on the feedback received from the teachers

Educational form

During the intro phase of the course students will be presented with basic techniques needed to create value (e.g. intellectual property) out of research and how to utilise it. A series of lectures and discussions are focused on these techniques including 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.

The skills training phase is based on practical use of the obtained knowledge. During computer lab exercises students will use their hypothetical discovery/innovation to go through all phases of intellectual propriety protection process. During the exercises students will use several patent databases search engines, create a draft patent application document, which afterwards will be used as part of course rapport. Additionally, students will also participate in negotiation skills development session. This session is based on interactive real time ‘game’ where groups of students are given the task to negotiate conflicting outcomes during a multisided negotiation session.

The whole course is finalised with an oral exam session were students play ‘double roles’. First they are required to present and defend the intellectual rights to the discovery/innovation that they have been working with, and second they have to asses other student’s presentations from the point of view of a potential investor.

Language
This course is taught in English.

Course enrollment
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