e-learning centre of the European Patent Academy

Patents play an important role in the area of green technology. This advanced lecture series provides participants with insights into the innovations happening in green tech and reveal how IP strategy can lead to success.

Patents play an important role in smart agriculture technology. This advanced lecture series provides participants with insights into the innovations shaping the smart agriculture of the future, and reveal how IP strategy can lead to success.

In this course, you will gain an understanding of the main categories of intellectual property (IP) rights, their primary features and how to apply these rights. The emphasis is on patents and on the “what”, “when” and “how” of protecting inventions. Further topics include how to search for patents and how to develop an IP strategy.

This self-paced course provides an overview of the benefits of the intellectual property system, and of patents in particular. You will discover the importance of patents from two perspectives: as a valuable source of information when it comes to researching whether an idea or a product has already been patented, and as a means of protecting inventions.

Innovation is the commercialisation of an invention. IP needs to be protected, but protection costs money, so it must be assessed within the overall context of innovation potential and enforceability. This course on IP management presents methodologies for making decisions on which technologies should be developed and which IP assets be created.

IP managers in high-growth technology businesses, typically in small and medium enterprises, need to be able to communicate with their company’s business, R&D and legal people. The IP strategy modules will introduce participants to essential management principles and how to apply them to the strategic management of IP assets. The focus is on value-based strategies for IP creation, and IP value extraction as an integral part of innovation strategy.

This series of six virtual classroom sessions (VCs) is designed for business advisors, technology transfer professionals and anyone else interested in understanding how IP issues impact SMEs and new businesses.

Search Matters has become the go-to event for patent search professionals interested in finding out more about the best search strategies and tools. This year's theme was "Searching for sustainability"  and the event focused on several practical aspects of the patent search process, such as efficiency in search, Asian patent documentation, prior art from the internet and many other search related topics.

Moreover, sustainability and digital transformation in the patent world were discussed.

Use this on-line tool to learn how to use the IP Teaching Kit when preparing a lecture on IP.

This self-paced training course deals with the role of patents in innovation and research, the conditions an invention has to meet in order to become a patent and how to use patent documentation for a particular research project.