New learning opportunity with the European Patent Office: Create - Protect - Innovate

Together with the new Center for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship "TUD|excite", we are working on future opportunities to learn about IP rights, especially patent law. We are pleased to be able to already offer interactive online learning opportunities of the European Patent Office on intellectual property in the winter semester 2023! 

Interested Master's students and PhD students from all disciplines as well as TUD staff can now register for the EPO's Modular Intellectual Property Education Framework (MIPEF) course "Create - Protect - Innovate: Bringing ideas to market" by contacting the JProfessorship Kaesling (katharina.kaesling@tu-dresden.de).
The course was developed by the European Patent Academy in cooperation with the examiners of the European Patent Office and other experts in the field of IP law. 

Registration: Starting now, until September 12, 2023. The number of participants is limited.  The date of receipt of the registration is decisive for the admission (first come, first serve). Please e-mail your registrations (and queries, if any) to katharina.kaesling@tu-dresden.de. 

Contents: Introduction to intellectual property law, basics of patent law, patent search and patent strategies.

Target group: Master students, PhD students and employees of the TU Dresden from all disciplines

Course Language: English

Period: 2.10.2023 - 22.12.2023

Formats and Hours:

Self-paced modules, accumulating up to approx. 75 h time with various formats, such as videos, podcasts, online exercises
The course consists of two parts (entry and advanced level), each containing five self-paced modules.

The course offers you unique opportunities to follow inventors' real-life stories, understand why and how they patent their inventions and learn how intellectual property rights (IPRs) can be integrated into business strategies. Each module is based on a carefully selected set of case studies, many of which involve inventors who have been nominated for or won the European Patent Office’s European Inventor Award.
You can independently complete the modules at your own pace.

The modules consist of high-quality videos, podcasts and interactive educational elements. These explain the theory behind new concepts and provide exercises and case studies to help learners consolidate their knowledge. There is also a multiple-choice quiz at the end of each module. In addition, a wide variety of resources are included for further study. A final exercise, marked by experts in intellectual property (IP), will serve to test your knowledge. Through a unique platform, tutored forum and interactive live sessions, you will meet different IP experts. If you complete all relevant activities, you will be awarded an official EPO certificate.

Schedule:
Course room opens: 2 October 2023
Live session 1: 18 October
Live session 2: 15 November
Live session 3: 6 December
Final exercise published: 7 December