After successful completion of the course, students are able to prepare, perform and document professional searches using relevant tools.
- Participants are able to distinguish between different types of intellectual property
- Participants can explain the structure of patents and the process of patent grant procedures
- Participants can use this knowledge in the preparation of the searches and in the interpretation of the serach results
- Participants can name use cases which are well suited for the deployment of professional research.
- Participants are able to present a specific search strategy to solve a given problem.
- Participants can name different patent databases and apply learned search strategies therein.
- Participants can document their search, summarize its results.
The first lecture part comprises of an introduction to the topics of patent grant procedure, structure of patents, classification of subject matter. Furthermore search strategies and tools are presented. In the second part students are to form teams to prepare and perform searches on given subject matter.
Thereby skills to prepare, perform and document professional searches using relevant tools are gained.
Attendance and participation at the kick-off meeting, some advisory meetings, the group kick-off meeting, and the group meetings are necessary in order to obtain a course certificate. You are required to do all tasks (self-assessment and progress [sap] tasks and graded tasks) and hand them in on time.
The graded tasks consist of solving individual search tasks and group search tasks as well as writing a database factsheet and a reflection paper.
More details will be available in the TUWEL course.
Presentations slides
Online material available at certain patent offices (EPO, British IPO, USPTO), see TUWEL
