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Patents and Freedom to Operate for Chemists and Biologists
23 July 2025 13:00 - 24 July 2025 16:00, United Kingdom
Introduction
Freedom to Operate (FTO), or freedom to practise, is the ability to use a method or process, launch a product or offer a service without infringing a third party patent. Delegates on this 6 hour online course, presented live over two days, will learn how to identify and navigate third party 'blocking' patents in the chemical and biological industries such as Life Sciences and Pharma.
Topics to be covered are:
DAY 1 - 3 Hours
IP Rights in the Chemical and Biological Industries (e.g. patents and trade secrets)
Protecting chemical and biological inventions (e.g. small molecules, processes, antibodies)
The European Patent with Unitary Effect ('Unitary Patent')
The Patent Lifecycle (e.g. from priority filing, national/PCT applications, to patent grant)
Patent Term and Patent Term Extension (e.g, Supplementary Protection Certificates)
Regulatory Data Protection
How to read a Patent and Interpret Claims
Ownership of IP rights
DAY 2 - 3 Hours
Patent & Database Searching: (e,g. for FTO, regulatory data, and patent status)
Patent Infringement and exceptions to infringement (e.g. Bolar provisions)
Enforcement of Patents in the UK and before the Unitary Patent Court
Challenging Patents (e.g. in the UK, Europe or USA)
Freedom to Operate - how to identify and deal with troublesome Third Party Patents
