Inventions and patents
The Inventions and Patents team at TU Dresden offers you a wide range of services as inventors:
ANALYSIS OF INVENTIONS:
- Personal advice to inventors on the protectability and scope of your invention as well as on general questions regarding industrial property rights.
- Advice on regulations in cooperation agreements
- Information on the Employee Invention Act
- Information on own search possibilities and the use of the Patent Information Centre at the TU Dresden (PIZ)
REGISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF IP RIGHT:
- Development of registration strategies
- Support in the preparation and receipt of invention disclosures
- Implementation of national and international applications for industrial property rights
- Coordination and management of patent procedures
- Monitoring of the property right portfolio
EXPLOITATION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
- Development of exploitation strategies according to the guidelines of the university's own transfer strategy (e.g. licensing, patent sale)
- Support with intellectual property issues in spin-offs and corporate investments
- Payment of the inventor's compensation
- Negotiation of exploitation contracts with companies
Would you like to know more about intellectual property rights? Visit one of our information events.