IPR Workshop

January 12th, 2010

Outline

09:30 Welcome & Coffee

10:00 IP essentials

12:00 Sandwich lunch

12:45 Testimonial JPEG2000, 1T3XT

13:15 IP search: technical & legal data available

15:15 Coffee break

15:30 Testimonial Siruna, SUMO, Geosparc

16:30 Closing networking reception

Intellectual Property search

IBBTs valorisation toolbox for business

People

People

Knowledge

Knowledge

Business

Integrate IP in your business model

Start asap, i.e.during idea

generation

IP landscape

state-of-the-art

freedom to operate

market & competition

red sea versus blue ocean strategy

Prior-art search

Number 1: Google !!!

Free patent databases

Non-patent literature

Other...

Prior-art search: free patent databases

Espacenet http://ep.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_V3

USPTO http://patft.uspto.gov/

Google patents http://www.google.com/patents

Patentscope® http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/index.jsp

Prior-art search: non-patent literature

Google scholar http://scholar.google.be

IEEE Xplore http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp

ACM Digital Library http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm

Start searching...

Google, entering keywords

Espacenet

Patents and patent applications from EU and beyond (ww)

Advanced search

Keywords, result list, bibliographic data and other tabs

Classifications

Patentscope

International Patent Applications

Structured search

Google patents

US granted/issued patents

USPTO

US patents and patent applications

Espacenet example

Patent process

REPORT THE

INVENTION

TO PATENT

ATTORNEY

PRIOR ART

SEARCH &

PATENTABILITY

STUDY

DRAFTING

PATENT

APPLICATION

CLAIMS

PRIOR ART

EMBODIMENTS

DRAWINGS

FIRST

FILING

PRIORITY

DATE

FURTHER

FILING

PRIORITY

YEAR

© 2008 BiiP

Patent: from filing to grant...

18 MONTHS

20 YEARS

GRANT EXPIRY

PATENT APPLICATION

UNDER EXAMINATIONGRANTED PATENT

PUBLICATION

with SRP

27-JUL-2010

1-5 YRS

PRIORITY

DATE

(first filing)

27-JAN-2009

30 MONTHS

12 MONTHS

PCT REGIONAL PHASE

27-JUL-2011

PRIORITY

YEAR

27-JAN-2010

PCT FILING

SEARCH

REPORT

© 2008 BiiP

EPO patent procedure

Patents for software

CIIs are in principle patentable

Referral to Enlarged Board of Appeal

No patents on trivial inventions

No source code necessary

Patent applications create transparency

Patents secure competitiveness

More information on EPO website:

http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/computer-implemented-

inventions/software.html

Questions?

Eefje Vandamme

Manager Intellectual Property IBBT

T: +32 9 331 48 25

F: +32 9 331 48 05

M: +32 476 89 62 61

E: eefje.vandamme@ibbt.be

Thank you