IP management: evaluation and protection

Patent filing tactics and managing the patent life cycle

• Patent filing tactics and managing the patent life cycle

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  Main purposes of this module:

  • to explain different patent drafting and filing tactics to cover the strategic markets of the innovator
    
  • to explain how continuations and divisional applications can be used to tweak the scope of the patent claims during prosecution
    
  • to evaluate the use of outside counsel vs. in-house counsel 
    

  Topics to be covered:

  i.    Drafting applications - geographic reach: national, regional or international? 
  ii.   Filing strategies - continuations and divisionals 
  iii.  Using outside counsel vs. in-house counsel
  

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  Various tactics are available to a company to protect an invention with international scope through the use of different filing options for different patents. The different requirements for national, regional and international filings are discussed.

  Continuations and CIPs in the US and divisionals before the EPO can be used to tweak claims and keep applications alive in order to be able to adjust them to competitor solutions which have entered the market while the application is still pending.

  Depending on circumstances, the use of either outside or in-house counsel can be advantageous.

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    Participants will find out about different tactics for covering strategic markets, including how to use continuations and divisional applications to tweak the scope of the claims during patent prosecution. They will also find out about how to seek protection on a large geographic scale and how the costs involved in obtaining protection can be delayed.

    Speaker: Robert Harrison (00:57:13h)

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    You need to register in the European Patent Academy’s e-learning centre and enrol to this course. 

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