Patent litigation A to Z

Course: Patent litigation A to Z

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• Block 1: Procedures to obtain a patent and legal framework

  This part of the patent litigation training relates to the definition and understanding of patents as objects of litigation.

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• Block 2: Patent disputes

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• Block 3: Outcomes to patent disputes

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  Block 1

  Essentials:

  • What is a patent
  • Patent procedure
  • PCT and entry into national phase
  • Priority
  • The EU Unitary Patent
  • SPCs
  • Legal framework
  • Scope of protection
  • Patent documentation
    
    

  Complementary reading:
  

  • Brief justification of the patent system
  • Early history and recent developments
  • Scope of protection: UK approach
  • Scope of protection: French Approach
  • Scope of protection: Dutch approach
  • Scope of protection: German Approach
    
    

  Block 2

  Essentials:

  • Construction of patent specifications
  • Claimant/plaintiff
  • Fundamentals of infringement
  • Jurisdiction and procedure
  • Defences and remedies
  • The effect of licences under patents
  • Decisions and judgements (outcomes)
  • Proceedings for invalidity
  • Grounds for invalidity
  • ADR

  
  Complementary reading:

  • Claimant/plaintiff: Burden of proof
  • Claimant/Plaintiff: Liability
  • Fundamentals of infringement: Infringement of biological inventions
  • Jurisdiction and procedure: UPC Agreement

  
  

  Block 3

  Essentials:

  • Remedies and alternative measures
  • National approaches to damages
  • UPC Regime
  • Costs
  • Amendment/limitation of patents
  • Voluntary surrender of patents and central revocation at the EPO
  • Declarations of non-infringement and compulsory licenses
    
    

  Complete documentation

  • Patent litigation A-Z: Block 1
  • Patent litigation A-Z: Block 2
  • Patent litigation A-Z: Block 3