Innovation support activities from the European Patent Academy

Eighth WIPO Forum on IP and SMEs

Rome4-5 October 2010

Jeremy PhilpottEuropean Patent Academy

Publications

www.ip4inno.eu

ip4inno - twelve teaching modules, each 3-hours long

1A Patent basics

1B Other industrial property, e.g. reg. trade marks & reg. designs

2A Copyright & related rights

2B "Soft" IP - trade secrets, know-how, confidential information etc.

3A Patent information for supporting business decisions

3B esp@cenet tutorial

4A IP commercialisation (licensing; valuing; strategy)

4B Business planning around IP

5A IP enforcement (litigation & ADR; piracy & counterfeiting)

5B IP problem-solving exercises

6A IP issues by sector: Creative Industries; Software & CII; Biotech.

6B Promoting IP to SMEs (running workshops; PR campaigns)

• Find partners with pertinent expertise to help with:– Revising, updating and shortening existing modules– Creating new modules (licensing; open innovation)– Translating materials (priority: Italy, Poland, new

members)• Develop e-Learning materials

– "virtual classrooms" (webcasts)– "Event Captures"– Custom-made modules, studio recorded

• Maintain and update website - www.ip4inno.eu• Lay foundations for a self-sustaining trainers' network

Follow-up project - ip4inno II - to Dec 2011

Thank you for your attention!

Jeremy Philpott

Innovation Support jphilpott@epo.org

European Patent Academy +49 89 2399 5405

www.epo.org/academy

Inventors' Handbook

www.epo.org/topics/innovation-and-economy/handbook.html

New e-learning modules on computer-implemented inventions:

https://e-learning.epo.org -> Open Access modules -> Patent Knowledge

More extensive training for business advisors on a range of IP issues is available through the ip4inno project: http://www.ip4inno.eu/