Our Training Scheme
“Practice makes perfect!” is our maxim when it comes to our training actions. The European IP Helpdesk provides (potential) beneficiaries of EU-funded projects and EU SMEs involved in cross-border business activities with the best possible support enabling them to develop their own IP management strategies and processes.
Our track record speaks for itself: Based on a practical training approach, we have developed an EU-wide training scheme attracting more than 4,000 participants per year to a total of 150 on-site and even more online training events around Europe.
From theory to practice
Our comprehensive regular training curriculum covers a wide range of topics and levels. We make sure to provide you with the answers to your specific issues related to IP-based business planning and IP management in EU-funded research projects: from basic level to more advanced workshops addressing rather specialised subjects such as IP in HEU or in Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions but also IP commercialisation and Licensing, Technology Transfer or Geographical Indications. All of our training sessions are held by IP experts with a hands-on approach, practical expertise and a professional network in different sectors. In case you missed a session please just check our recordings.
Besides our regular training curriculum, we also support individual stakeholders working with the same target groups as we do by providing suitable IP training sessions during their events or in form of individual IP workshops. To ensure a broad outreach, our cooperation partners comprise key multipliers such as National Contact Points (NCPs) for EU funding programmes, national, European and international IP organisations or member institutions of the Enterprise Europe Network working in direct contact with SMEs and researchers.
Planning an IP training with us
Are you interested in planning an IP training session with us? Or would you like to get the perspective of an IP expert and advisor on a certain topic during a conference, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us! We are happy to contribute to training events or conferences of all kind. Please use our online support request form to get in touch. Only one key element we need to share with you beforehand: in order to meet the growing demand of incoming training support requests we had to set a threshold of 30 participants as a minimum. If you would like to train a smaller group or in case you are an individual EU researcher or SME, we would like to re-draw your attention to our regular training curriculum.
Key Learning Targets:
- What is Intellectual Property (IP)?
- What are Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)?
- Why should I deal with IP/IPR issues? Why should IP be an integral part of my business strategy? What are the first steps to be taken?
- What IP protection can I use (e.g. trademarks, patents etc.)?
- To which institutions can I turn for help?
- What do different IP titles cost?
- How do I perform basic IP searches? What tools exist?
- What does counterfeiting mean?
- How can IPR be enforced?
- What are the basic mechanisms of making money with IP?
Key Learning Targets:
- What is a geographical name?
- What are the main types of geographical names?
- What value do geographical names represent for businesses?
- How are geographical indications protected?
- How are geographical indications enforced?
- What are the differences between geographical indications and trade marks?
- What type of conflicts can arise between geographical indications and trade marks?
- How can searches of geographical indications be performed?
Key Learning Targets:
- Have a clear understanding of the differences among Geographical Indication, Trademarks and Plant Variety Denominations;
- Be aware of peculiarities and characteristics of the registration of each right;
- In which cases a certain right should be chosen instead of some other;
- Examples of protected intellectual Property under the different IP
- Traditional distinction between Publishing and Patenting approaches
- Alternative dissemination routes
- Defensive publication
- Open access model
- Secrecy
Key Learning Targets:
- What is Intellectual Property (IP)?
- What are Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)?
- Common problems of SMEs in their day to day activities?
- Why should I deal with IP/IPR issues? Why should IP be an integral part of my business strategy?
- How can IP be a business asset?
- Which IP protection tools exist/can I use (e. g. trademarks, patents etc.)?
- To which institutions can I turn for help?
Key Learning Targets:
- What is technology transfer and why is it important?
- What actors or institutions are providing assistance in technology transfer?
- How are technology screenings performed and why are they important?
- In what ways can I manage risk before and during the technology transfer process?
- How does technology licensing work and what types of licenses should I consider?
Key Learning Targets:
- What is a license agreement and when should it be used?
- What are the main differences between a license agreement and other contracts? (assignment and distribution agreement).
- What are the options for the patent owner to take advantage of a patent?
- Are there more options for an SME than to build a product (based on IP) and sell it?
- When does licensing make sense?
- Best practice case studies in technology licensing
Key Learning Targets:
- Drafting your IP inventory
- Establishing a Strategy
- Finding Potential Business Partners
- Knowing Local IP Rules
- Choosing the right Business Model
- Enforcing Your Rights
Key Learning Targets:
- How to manage IP within the contractual R&D context of Life Science projects?
- What are the main features of an R&D agreement related to Life Science?
- How to commercialize Life Science project results?
- What are the consequences of the legal IP regime of Horizon 2020 project results for the commercialization of Life Science project results?
- What are the main features of biotechnology licensing?
Key Learning Targets:
- Relevant IP rights
- The context of IP in product development
- Specifics of IP in biotech
- Development of an IP portfolio
- Management of an IP portfolio
Key Learning Targets:
- What Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) can be used for Software
- Strategies for managing and protecting software
- Strategies for the exploitation of software tools, products and services
Key Learning Targets:
- A Public contract Called Patent Law
- Intellectual Property and the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Impact of IP and Real Hurdles in HealthCare
- Conclusions
Key Learning Targets:
- Open Innovation as an innovation management paradigm
- its effects on IP
- how IP can be managed under an open innovation paradigm.
Key Learning Targets:
- What is FTO, what are the different FTO types, what level of accuracy can be chosen in the data analysis?
- Why is FTO strategically important for commercialisation activities of SMEs?
- When should SMEs choose to invest in FTO analysis and how much should they budget for that?
Key Learning Targets:
- What do we understand by intellectual property in artificial intelligence?
- What rights are there in data used by machine learning in AI?
- How is data protected by database rights?
- How to obtain the rights to use data in creating innovation in AI?
- Is it possible to patent inventions in AI?
- What impact will new advice from European and US Patent Offices have on the approach to examining patent applications?
- Who owns inventions made with data supplied from other sources?
- How can innovations in artificial intelligence be sold or licensed for use?
Key Learning Targets:
- What are the key characteristics of an EU-funded project and the different participating partners?
- Which IP aspects have to be considered in collaborative research projects?
- At which stages of the project does IP matter?
- What rules exist within HEU and what requirements have to be met?
- What terminology is used?
- How do I define relevant background for my project?
- How do I define ownership of results?
- How do I set up a regime for granting access rights?
- What are basic IP aspects to be considered under HEU? (Please note that additional webinars specifically addressing exploitation issues under HEU will be offered separately)
Key Learning Targets:
- What is a consortium agreement?
- When should the consortium agreement be signed, and by whom?
- What model consortium agreements are available, and for what types of projects?
- What issues should a consortium agreement deal with?
- Regarding IP: which GA rules should not be contradicted by the CA?
- Regarding IP: what are the areas in which GA rules leave flexibility for the CA?
- Regarding IP: how to use the CA as a tool: examples of clauses to add to your draft
Key Learning Targets:
- Relevant IP issues for MSCA proposals
- Particularities of MSCA grant agreements
- Ownership of background and results
- Questions from MSCA participants received at the EIPRHD
- MSCA success stories
Key Learning Targets:
- Impact and innovation in HEU project proposals
- Exploitation of project results
- Business landscape in project proposals
- Researchers' rights on project results
- IPR protection for project results
- State of the art, prior art definition - patent databases (e.g. Espacenet)
- Support and sources of information on IPR
Key Learning Targets:
- What Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are appropriate for different ICT technologies
- How to address the use, management and protection of ICT in HEU and other EC funded projects
- Strategies for the exploitation of different types of ICT
Key Learning Targets:
- What is mediation? What is arbitration, what is expedited arbitration? How does it compare with court litigation?
- What are the advantages of mediation, arbitration, in particular when used in R&D collaborations and other cross-border transactions?
- At which stages of a project do I need to think about dispute resolution?
- What do I need to consider when negotiating and drafting contract dispute resolution clauses?
- What are the key elements of a dispute resolution clause in a contract: mediation clause/arbitration clause/combined mediation-arbitration clause?
- Which assistance does the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center provide when a dispute arises?
- How can I use ADR in infringement cases and other non-contractual disputes?
Key Learning Targets:
- Why should applicants/beneficiaries of HEU projects care about communication, dissemination and exploitation?
- What are central definitions and concepts related to communication, dissemination and exploitation in HEU? What are the distinctions, and how do they relate?
- When do communication, dissemination and exploitation come into play?
- What role does IP and innovation management play in this context?
- What are the central IP aspects to be considered?
- What are the central steps in setting up a communication, dissemination and exploitation strategy?
- What are relevant and effective tools?
Key Learning Targets:
- The IP in the Consortium Agreements: a particular regard to the results of the research.
- Which are the best means to maximize the value of your IP?
- Assessing your IP: How can you estimate the value of your IP?
- Which are the best exploitation strategies and business plans for entering the market?
- Reap the rewards of your IP: taking a closer look at the different forms of licensing.