Patents

Abstract

Knowledge in the field of intellectual property, especially of patents and trademarks, with particular emphasis on pharmaceutics.Introduction into intellectual property; prosecution of patent applications; patent information; exploitation and enforcement of patents; peculiarities in pharmaceutics and medicine; social, political and ethical aspects.

Objective

Basic knowledge in the field of industrial property, especially of patents and trademarks, with particular emphasis on pharmaceutics.

Content

1. Introduction into industrial property (patents, trademarks, industrial designs); 2. Prosecution of patent applications (patentability); 3. Patent information (patent publications, databases, searches); 4. Exploitation and enforcement of patents (possibilities of exploitation, licenses, parallel imports, scope of protection, patent infringement); 5. Peculiarities in pharmaceutics and medicine (supplementary protection certificates, experimental use exemption, therapy and diagnosis, medical indication); 6. Social, political and ethical aspects (patents and prices for medicinal products, traditional knowledge and ethnomedicine, bioprospecting and biopiracy, title to human DNA inventions); 7. Trademarks, Types of Trademarks, grounds for refusal, peculiarities of Pharma-Trademarks.

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