e-learning centre of the European Patent Academy

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 course has been specifically designed for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows. It looks at the importance of patents as a source of information for research and new projects and as a means of protecting inventions, featuring examples and real cases.

Live webinars with experts from the European Patent Office take place on 6, 13 and 20 March 2018 at 15.00 h CET (GMT +01:00).

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.

This self-paced course has been created to provide TUM students with  an overview of what patents are, what requirements an invention has to fulfill to be patentable and what a patent application should generally comply with. The course also deals with patent documentation and other intellectual property (IP) rights. Students can obtain a certificate after passing a quiz.

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.