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This self-paced course offers a basic introduction to the most important legal and procedural aspects of patents and the European patent system.

Pan-European Seal: this on-line course is mandatory for all candidates.

This course room offers access to material (e-learning modules, recording of events, and public webinars) covering topics related to computer-implemented inventions, such as:

• Patentability of computer-implemented inventions (CII)
• New technologies and the patent system
• CII in biotech and healthcare

You can watch the entire recorded events, quickly access specific parts of the presentations or questions asked by the public and download the presentation materials in PDF format.

This self-paced course offers a practical guide towards systematic patent search, from the process of analysing the patent application to carrying out a sufficiently complete and efficient search and deciding when to stop the search.

Pan-European Seal: this on-line course is mandatory for candidates in science and technology fields (DG1).