Freedom to Operate (FTO), or freedom to practise, is the ability to use a method or process, or launch a product, without infringing a third party patent. Delegates on this 6.5 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.
The course will be particularly relevant for R&D scientists developing new products or processes.
Topics to be covered are:
DAY 1 - 3 Hours
The course will be particularly relevant for R&D scientists developing new products or processes.
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, manufacturing 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)
- How to read a Patent and Interpret Claims
- Ownership of IP rights
- The use of AI in the innovation process
- 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
- Case Studies
- FTO Group Exercises
