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Patents Training Courses

Our patent training courses have been designed to help you improve your drafting skills and ensure that you have the ability to identify and mitigate against risks, as well as understanding the current rules and regulations, which are crucial to the success of your business.

The patent system is constantly changing with continuous updates and legal developments across the various jurisdictions that you need to be aware of. Patent applications and claims need to be carefully constructed and submitted to the patent offices within the current guidelines.

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  • Next: 19 Mar 2024 Live online
  • Also: 24 Sep 2024 Live online

Advanced Drafting Techniques for Successful EPO Patent Applications

Live online

Many patent applications and patents are lost before the EPO, either before Opposition Divisions or before Appeal due to incorrect original drafting, and added subject matter is a recurrent problem. Learn advanced drafting techniques for successful EPO patent applications. *INCLUDES: Interactive workshop sessions and details of the latest case law and its implications*

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Daniel X Thomas
  • Next: 12-13 Mar 2024 Live online
  • Also: 11-12 Jul 2024 Live online
  • Also: 7-8 Nov 2024 Classroom

The Art of European Claim Drafting

Live online, Classroom

This seminar combines one day of claim drafting fundamentals with a further day of focused workshops.

  • 12 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Joeri Beetz
  • and Leythem Wall
  • Next: 6 Mar 2024 Live online
  • Also: 18 Jul 2024 Live online
  • Also: 28 Nov 2024 Live online

Avoiding Pitfalls in Patent/Know-How Licences and R&D Collaborations

Live online

Analyse and discuss the key aspects of patent/know-how licences and R&D collaborations, assessing the areas where things can and do go wrong.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Richard Brady
  • Next: 13-16 May 2024 Live online

Drafting Effective Pharmaceutical Patents

Live online

Drafting successful pharmaceutical patents is complex and there are many pitfalls and risks to be aware of. You need to ensure you’re maximising the protection for your, and your client’s, pharmaceutical inventions thorough both primary and secondary pharmaceutical patents.

  • 12 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Amanda Murphy
  • Next: 4-5 Mar 2024 Live online
  • Also: 11-12 Jul 2024 Live online
  • Also: 14 Nov 2024 Classroom

Drafting International Intellectual Property Agreements

Live online, Classroom

Focus on the drafting skills and legal and commercial issues to be considered when drawing up international IP agreements.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Brian Kacedon
  • + 2 more
  • Next: 18 Mar 2024 Live online
  • Also: 23 Sep 2024 Live online

Effective Defence of EPO Patent Applications

Updated for 2024

Live online

Clarity in drafting patent applications has always been a serious issue. The purpose of the seminar is to teach delegates the essentials of clarity, and the most effective use of the problem-solution approach, giving delegates an edge over other parties. *INCLUDES: Interactive workshop sessions and details of the latest case law and its implications*

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Daniel X Thomas
  • Next: 15-16 May 2024 Classroom
  • Also: 6-7 Nov 2024 Classroom

How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Combined EU/US Patent Applications

Classroom

This seminar addresses the parallel, but substantially different, rules for drafting and prosecuting patents required by the Examiners and Appeal Boards of the EPO and USPTO.

  • 12 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by David Meldrum
  • and Mr. Bradley Hulbert
  • Next: 14 May 2024 Classroom
  • Also: 5 Nov 2024 Classroom

Litigation-Proofing and Proving your Patent Claims

Classroom

This seminar provides a comprehensive overview of the principles of patent claim interpretation in the USA, UK and Germany.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Mr. Bradley Hulbert
  • + 2 more
  • Next: 11-12 Mar 2024 Live online
  • Also: 5 Jun 2024 Classroom
  • Also: 12-13 Sep 2024 Live online
  • Also: 5 Dec 2024 Classroom

Patent Protection for Software-Related Inventions in Europe and the USA

Live online, Classroom

An intensive update on patent protection for software-related inventions covering all the major developments in European patent law in particular GUI inventions and 'mixed' inventions with both patentable and non-patentable subject matter.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Dr Alan Boyd
  • and Tim May
  • Next: 21 Feb 2024 Live online
  • Also: 10 Jun 2024 Live online
  • Also: 15 Oct 2024 Classroom

Successfully Conducting Oral Proceedings at the EPO

New for 2024

Live online, Classroom

Oral proceedings are organised to conclude the majority of appeal cases, and in many opposition and examination cases. Consequently, a European patent attorney will almost certainly at some point have to attend oral proceedings, either to defend a client's invention or to attack a patent held by a competitor. To defend your client's interests correctly and competently it is vital to know what to expect at those occasions and to be property prepared for it.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Joeri Beetz
  • Next: 26-29 Feb 2024 Live online
  • Also: 13-14 Jun 2024 Classroom
  • Also: 8-11 Oct 2024 Live online

US Patent Practice

Live online, Classroom

What all European patent attorneys need to know - an intensive and highly interactive two-day seminar including discussions on US patent law and strategies and tactics for patent prosecution at the US Patent Office

  • 12 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by James Suggs
  • and Nicole Reifman