IP Training
Winning Oppositions and Appeals
Provides a solid legal background with practical strategies to increase confidence and proficiency when handling these cases. Illustrates how the outcome can be influenced by submissions and conduct.
Opposition, appeals and oral proceedings are integrated to provide a complete training because actions and submissions during one aspect can influence the chance of success in one of the others.
Given from an attorney point of view - all options are discussed so that the client's position can be optimally defended.
Date to be announced soon! (also possible on an in-house basis)
Computer-implemented Inventions
To provide participants with the information they need to successfully draft and prosecute software-related patent applications before the EPO. As part of the DeltaPatents’ continuous education program, the course is aimed at beginning as well as experienced patent attorneys.
Software has become a major drive of technological innovation, and companies naturally seek to protect the technologies they develop in this field. However, computer programs per se are excluded from patentability under Art. 52(2)(c) and (3) EPC. Consequently, patent applications relating to computer-implemented inventions have been given special treatment by the EPO, and a substantial amount of case law has developed to draw the line between patentable and non-patentable subject matter. Also, the exclusion from patentability has led to a specific treatment of novelty and inventive step for computer-implemented inventions.
This one-day course about software-related patents focuses on the relevant substantive patent law and practical aspects of drafting and prosecuting. An overview of the relevant case law will be given. Attention will be given to recent legislative developments, including the Enlarged Board decision G 3/08, as well as upcoming developments. Moreover, do’s and don’ts of software patents will be presented, also in the context of other jurisdictions.
Date to be announced soon! (also possible on an in-house basis)
Contact
For more information you can contact us by phone: 00 31 40 7876030 or via e-mail: training@deltapatents.com.
