Research and Industrial Property Rights

9.00 – 10.30 Introduction to the patent system and research

• Why do patents and other IPR exist?
• What can be protected under IPR?
• When to apply for a patent?
• The benefits from IP protection for an academic entrepreneur

Director, professor Niklas Bruun, IPR University Center

10.30 – 10.45     Break

10.45 – 11.30    The Structure of a Patent Application and Practical Matters of Patenting

• Applying for a patent in Finland
• Applying for a patent abroad (PCT, EPC, US and others)

Director (Patent department) Folke Johansson, Papula-Nevinpat

11.30 – 12.15    Patent Databases as the Source of Information and in the Follow-up of Competitors

Senior Fellow Dr Timo Nyberg, Aalto University

12.15 – 13.15    Lunch Break    

13.15 – 14.15    Whose rights?

• Contracts and employment
• University inventions    
• Research contracts

Senior Legal Councel Anna Markkanen, Aalto University

14.15 – 14.30    Coffee Break

14.30 – 16.00 IPR Strategies

• Trademark
• Brand
• Business name
• Domain name

IPR Services Manager Taru Kallio-Nyholm, Berggren

LIVE STREAMING FROM THE WEBSITE:
https://hanken.kurssi.tv/lives/iprstream/

Registration only for those, who are going to be present at the class room!

The whole seminar is held in English.