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Patents play an important role in many technical fields, and green technology is no exception.
In fact, in green technology, not only are patents crucial to fostering innovation, they are also instrumental in monitoring innovation. Green technologies – or green tech – may be found in many different fields. Some are old and quite mature, others are booming or in their infancy. This advanced lecture provides insights into the innovations happening in green tech and reveal how IP strategy can lead to success.
You will learn how patents can be used to protect green tech inventions and will find out about some of the challenges in the patent granting process which are specific to green tech.
You will come to understand how patents can be used not only to protect a range of subject matter (such as a product, process, device or use) by preventing unauthorised commercial exploitation by third parties, but also to find or attract investors, follow trends, protect market share, cement technology partnerships and increase profits.