The publication of information related to patent applications and granted patents is anchored in the EPC under Chapter II of Part VII.

The EPO maintains a variety of tools for searching and analysing this information and regularly conducts public webinars. 

This series of five one-hour virtual classroom sessions will introduce the main concepts of IP evaluation and protection. Innovation is the commercialisation of an invention. Decisions on which technologies should be developed and which IP assets created must be carefully evaluated. IP needs to be protected, but protection costs money, so it must be assessed within the overall context of innovation potential and enforceability. In a global market, the life-cycle management of patents on a worldwide basis is key to making best use of the patent system to gain and maintain competitive advantage.

The fee of EUR 100 covers all five one-hour virtual classroom sessions.

This series of four one-hour virtual classroom sessions will introduce the main concepts of IP value extraction and commercialisation. The sessions explore ways in which value can be extracted from IP via different models, ranging through securing markets to actively harvesting royalties. It covers the basic IP value-extraction mechanisms and how they can be implemented through licensing and enforcement.

The fee of EUR 100 covers all four one-hour virtual classroom sessions.

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

This itinerary is the third part of the 'IP and research' series and features a number of case studies, which illustrate the strategical and practical relevance of patents and IP for research-driven businesses.