After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the essentials for exploitation of R&D results. The students can

• explain the prerequisites and special features of intellectual property rights,
• identify the main steps of patent procedures and explain the structure of a patent,
• name the essential provisions of a licence agreement and explain possible restrictions and remuneration options,
• explain the purpose of confidentiality agreements and R&D contracts with regard to technology exploitation and indicate the key points of the contracts,
• list use cases for patent searches, possible search tools and search strategies and solve simple search tasks,
• identify key steps in IP management and IP strategy development,
• explain how to create and implement a IP strategy, and
• list essential steps of information search and assessment for early detection of technologies.

Introduction: Basics concerning intellectual property, invention- and know-how protection
1 Options for exploitation of intellectual property
  1.1 Selling or licensing
  1.2 Start-up route
  1.3 R&D Projects, Consulting
2 Development of strategies
3 Businessplan and Technology offers
4 Use of databases: information about state-of-the-art and market
5 Protection of IPRs: Non-disclosure agreements, R&D contracts, patenting (preconditions/processes/options/strategies)
6 Business development

Lecture, group work on patent examples, search tasks, licensing game

Target groups: advanced students and scientists

TUWEL Test online via Zoom (camera and ID-card obligatory)

• only registered participants of the TUWEL course are admitted to the exam
• registration on TISS, max 20 participants per exam, duration 90 minutes
• format: open questions, no automatic evaluation, questions have to be answered in given order
• the use of documentation or other resources is forbidden
• You have to login into Zoom with your full name

maximum number of points (score): 15

Notenschlüssel: Sehr gut: 13 bis 15 Pkt
                           Gut: 11 bis < 13 Pkt
                           Befriedigend: 9 bis < 11 Pkt
                           Genügend: 7 bis < 9 Pkt
                           Nicht genügend < 7 Pkt

you can gain a bonus of 0.5 points for solving the exercises in TUWEL during the lecture.

registration for the lecture via TISS

- presentation slides as handout

- The inventors' handbook, published by the European Patent Office, provides a comprehensive insight in the main topics of the lecture at http://www.epo.org/learning-events/materials/inventors-handbook.html