Compact Webinar: Basics of Patent Law - Property Rights, Patent Law & Patentability Requirements

This webinar offers a brief, general introduction to the major kinds of intellectual property rights and compares them to one another. It then shifts focus to patents and the patenting process. The requirements an invention must meet in order to be patented is regulated by law. Machines, compounds, and processes can be patented as long as they meet all necessary requirements, with the decisive criteria being novelty, inventive step, technicality, industrial applicability, and reproducibility.


This webinar introduces attendees to these basic requirements of patentability along with the limits of patent protection.It also discusses the basics of the patent application process and how a patent is structured.

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Contents

  • What are the different types of intellectual property rights?
  • Patentability requirements
  • How a patent is structured
  • Introduction to the patent application process
  • What kind of protection patents offer

Info about the event

Date: 03/30/2022 10:00–11:30 AM

Language: English

You will receive the login details and further information the day before the event.

Organizer: PROvendis GmbH

Speaker: Dr. Wolfram Schleich (Innovation Manager at PROvendis GmbH)

Attendance is free of charge for anyone whose university is a member of  NRW Hochschul-IP*!

The NRW Hochschul-IP network is funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy providing the funding.
 

Sign up here by March 23, 2022:

Free participation for scientists of the NRW Hochschul-IP network! Participants will receive a certificate of participation afterwards.