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Building and Managing a Patent Portfolio to Best Support your Business Training Course

A comprehensive one-day course that takes you through the IP commercialisation process to understand how to make the most of IP within your business.

★★★★★ "Very useful and inspiring. I found very interesting, with practical suggestions."

3 July 2025
+ 24 November 2025 »
from £599

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Format: Live online
CPD: 6 hours for your records
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Course overview

This comprehensive one-day course will take you through the IP commercialisation process and explain how to maximise the IP in your business.

The expert trainers will explain how to meet the challenges of an extensive patent filing programme and how to manage the costs effectively, in order to achieve maximum coverage on minimum budget.

This practical and intense one-day course will take you through preparing a patent portfolio for multinational litigation and managing a portfolio with a view to detecting infringement. Using their extensive knowledge and industry experience the trainers will provide you with strategies to exploit your portfolio, maximising it's full potential.

Key topics included in this course include:

Working as a multinational team to file and prosecute patent application
Meeting the challenges of an extensive patent filing programme
Managing a cost-effective patent filing programme
Achieving maximum coverage on minimum budget
Preparing a patent portfolio for multinational litigation
Managing a patent portfolio with a view to detecting infringement
Strategies to exploit your patent portfolio
Maximising your patent portfolio

This course is part of our collection of IP & Patents Training Courses.

Benefits of attending

By attending this event you will:

Gain practical tips enabling you to build a successful patent portfolio
Understand the multinational aspects of developing and maintaining a patent portfolio
Gain an insight into how other businesses are addressing the issues and pressures facing them
Learn ways to maximise your growing portfolio
Hear top rated speakers outlining the issues and pressures facing industry today
Identify techniques to overcome the issues surrounding managing an existing portfolio

You will also have the opportunity to network with peers facing the same challenges as you in managing or advising on a patent portfolio.

Who should attend?

This course has been specially designed for:

In-house patent lawyers/agents
Private practice patent lawyers/agents
IP lawyers and legal advisors
Senior patent administrators and paralegals
Others responsible for managing a patent portfolio

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This course will cover:

What is a patent portfolio good for?

Patent protection - general aspects
Translating innovation into inventions
Translating inventions into patent applications
Creation of a patent portolio
Maintenance of a patent portfolio

Internal processes and governance

Budgeting
IP stagegate/agile models
Invention disclosure forms
Patent Committees (who has the authority?)
Inventors rewards and recognition programmes

Meeting the challenges of an extensive filing programme - Part 1

Managing the drafting process
Patent filing strategy
Selecting territorial coverage
Managing and understanding patent portfolio information
Coordinating prosecution of a patent family

Meeting the challenges of an extensive filing programme - Part 2

Growing a patent portfolio - generation of inventions
The transition from start-up to multinational
Outsourcing strategies - what to keep internal / what to externalize
Working effectively with patent agents and agents' selection
Monitoring patent agents' performance

Achieving maximum coverage on minimum budget

Matching patent filing with commercial strategy
Treatment of higher and lower priority cases
Keeping your patent portfolio fresh
External collaborations: How to split the patent rights?

Ensuring quality of a patent portfolio

Analysing for quality
Patent portfolio pruning
Communicating internally about patents

Preparing a patent portfolio for multinational litigation

Drafting patent applications with litigation considerations in mind
Identifying territories for your patent filing programme
Co-ordinating prosecution of patent families across jurisdictions
Liaison between prosecutor and litigator
The prospects of settlement

Managing a portfolio with a view to detecting infringement

Reviewing your patent portfolio
Watching your competitors
Infringement hunting

Strategies to exploit your portfolio - extracting value from your patent portfolio

Connections between patent portfolio management and value extraction
Processes for optimising value extraction, mapping, ranking systems, claim charting
Patent licensing and enforcement

Maximising your patent portfolio - when dreams and budgets collide

Key takeaways
Discussion and final questions

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Olivier Corticchiato
Intellectual Property Consulting

Olivier Corticchiato is an independent intellectual property consultant. He combines strong international experiences in leading IP teams for major global companies. He was until recently European Patent Attorney and Head of Centre of Competence – Patent Oppositions at Nestlé, and before that he was at Proctor & Gamble. His speciality areas include patent, IP, IP portfolio, design rights, EPC, European Patent Convention, contracts, confidentiality, oppositions, litigation, valuation, appeal, agreements, R&D, business development, litigation, IP M&A and IP due diligence.

His extensive experience in IP, R&D, consumer understanding and IP M&A, means Olivier is legitimate at operating in the inner circle of IP-Legal, and innovation/R&D, business/marketing.

He acquired the experience of people management in his various R&D and IP positions and attaches importance to shaping organizations to match the business objectives. Developing strategies, sharing and advising organizations in the field of R&D and intellectual property have become his fundamental direction.

He says: "Intellectual Property is not an island of obscure and boring legal rights - Intellectual Property rights are dynamic assets that companies must extract value from, primarily by securing competitive advantage over time".

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Simone Frattasi
Mærsk

Simone Frattasi is a European Patent Attorney and a Telecom Engineer with a Diploma in IP Business Administration from CEIPI/University of Strasbourg and a PhD in Wireless, Mobile Communications. He is currently serving as the Head of Global IP at MAERSK, which, under his lead, won the Gold Award for 'Best IP Department Nordics' by Leaders League in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Prior to this role, he was the Head of the Patent Department at Sony Mobile Communications in Sweden. His expertise also includes working as a Patent Attorney at two Danish IP consultancy firms. In addition to his professional achievements, Simone has been an entrepreneur, having co-founded and served as CTO and COO for two start-up companies. Notably, he has represented Sweden in the ISO standard 'Innovation Management System, Guidelines for IP Management'. Moreover, he is the main author of the book: 'Patent Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide' (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023). He received the recognitions as one of AIM Strategy 300: The World's Leading IP Strategists of 2024, Finance Monthly's IP Adviser of 2023 in Denmark, Managing IP's Top Twelve Europe's In-House IP Leaders of 2023 and 2024, and Managing IP's Corporate IP Star in 2022 and 2023.

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NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:

30% off the 2nd delegate*
40% off the 3rd delegate*
50% off the 4th delegate*

Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates

3 July 2025

Live online

09:00-17:30 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:00-18:30 Paris (UTC+02)
04:00-12:30 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14727

GBP 599 699
EUR 839 979
USD 963 1,119

Until 29 May

1 day live online training
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24 November 2025

Live online

09:00-17:30 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:00-18:30 Paris (UTC+01)
04:00-12:30 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 14951

GBP 599 699
EUR 839 979
USD 963 1,119

Until 20 Oct

1 day live online training
Browser-based, no download usually required
See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
Download documentation and certification of completion
Fair transfer and cancellation policy

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for 7 days, no obligation

* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.