| Responsible Department | Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology
33 % Peter Horn Møller, Tinderact/Adjunct. Professor at Dept. Plant- and Environmental Sciences 67 % | ||||||||||
| External Assisting Partner | The course is organized by Department for Plant- and Environmental Sciences, UCPH SCIENCE. Peter Horn Møller, Tinderact/Adjunct. Professor at Dept. Plant- and Environmental Sciences | ||||||||||
| Course Dates | January 28 - February 1 2013. | ||||||||||
| Course Abstract | It is the purpose of the course to stimulate integration of patenting and innovation in the research laboratories and enable the course participants to tap into the knowledgebase that patents represent. | ||||||||||
| Course Home Page | http://www.dias.kvl.dk/IPRforPhDs.html | ||||||||||
| Course Registration | To sign up for the course, please send an e-mail to ipr-patenting-course@life.ku.dk | ||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | January 14 2013. | ||||||||||
| Credits | 4 (ECTS) | ||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Frederiksberg Campus. | ||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||
| Restrictions | 30 | ||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||
| The course is taught through a series of lectures with parallel case studies. Patenting and use of patent literature is taught in computer exercises. It is the aim of the course to endow the participants with concrete skills in finding patents and patent applications, recognizing relevant document types and judging the strength of the patents or applications on the basis of an understanding of the patenting process. Case studies of business plans and the founding of new biotech companies will be supplemented with discussions with invited entrepreneurs. See also course homepage and http://www.dias.kvl.dk/iprforphds.html. | |||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||
| Lectures and computer exercises. | |||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||
| The aim of the course is to: . make participants familiar with the steps required in developing a biotechnological product . provide knowledge about defining and identifying a commercially interesting problem . enable the participants in navigating the patent landscape surrounding the product . introduction to business plans and raising venture capital for the new company | |||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||
| Peter Ulvskov, ulvskov@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Section for Plant Glycobiology, Phone: 353-32580 Solveig Krogh Christiansen, soc@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Plant Biotech Denmark, Phone: 353-33378 | |||||||||||
| Other Lecturers | |||||||||||
| University researchers with entrepreneurial experience, librarians and Tech Trans experts from both Sweden and Denmark. | |||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||
| See details in the course catalogue. | |||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||
| Written examination. | |||||||||||
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