Claim Drafting - DeltaPatents

Claim Drafting

This course provides a working knowledge of patentability in Europe, in particular novelty of different forms of claims and the problem-solution approach (inventive step). Participants get a better understanding of the claim drafting process such that they can better work together with the patent attorney and they can better review his work.

Legal requirements in Europe that shape the claims

Scope of protection and its relation with infringement

Independent & dependent claims

Claim categories

Claim formats, interpretation, scope, fall-back positions

Essential features and clarity

Patentability of the claims in Europe

State of the art – technical teaching, enablement

Novelty

Inventive step, the problem solution approach

Unity, alternatives, inter-related items – ‘plug & socket’

Starting to draft

Determining the business and needs of the client

Analyzing of potential infringers

Distilling the invention disclosure to its essentials,

deriving key features and effects of the invention

Analysing the prior art

Identifying the features that define the invention

Drafting the claims

Selecting claim category

Selecting claim object

Drafting an independent claim to cover the invention, and defines only the essential features

Drafting in the two-part form

Selecting dependent claims

Course fee

2-day Claim Drafting: price to be determined. Please contact DeltaPatents.

Registration fee and VAT information

An administrative fee of € 125 is charged for every booking. If more than one course is booked at the same time, only one administrative fee will be charged

All fees are excluding 21% VAT