Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Innovation and intellectual property rights in biotechnology
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3241-18-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 15/01/2018

Date and time	29.01.2018, at: 09:00 - 02.02.2018, at: 17:00
Regular seats	24
Course fee	5,280.00 kr.
Lecturers	John Nielsen
ECTS credits	4.30

Contact person	Marianne Wieslander Jørgensen E-mail address: marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). Special rules apply for research year students enrolled at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list. Learning objectives It is the overall purpose of the course to stimulate integration of patenting and innovation in the research laboratories and enable the course participants to tap into the knowledgebase that patents represent. It is the aim of the course to endow the participants with concrete skills in finding patents and patent applications, recognizing relevant document types and judging the strength of the patents or applications on the basis of an understanding of the patenting process. A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. make participants familiar with the steps required in developing biotechnological products e.g. new drugs or biopharmaceuticals 2. enable the participants in navigating the patent landscape surrounding the product and explain the different stages of the patenting process, and requirements for obtaining a patent 3. use the various professional databases to find the relevant patents and patent applications covering a given invention; and to be able to assess the strengths/weaknesses and freedom-to-operate situation 4. analyze and discuss the commercial potential of biotechnological ideas and inventions based on the technology platform, IP situation, and market analyses 5. describe and compare the different means to fund or finance inventions in order to commercialize these including an introduction to business plans and raising venture capital for the new company Content The main subjects being covered in this course are: - Intellectual property rights (IPR): General about patents and the process and specifically covering small molecules and how to patent sequence-based inventions (proteins, DNA) - Business plans and how to address investors - Market potential/analysis - Entrepreneurial case studies - Biotech (as a business) Participants Graduate students with a good knowledge of natural sciences or engineering at the borderline between biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical sciences with an interest in innovation and entrepreneurship. Also, individuals from the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry, which seeks knowledge and a deeper understanding of innovation and intellectual property rights. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language English Form The course is taught through a series of lectures with parallel case studies. Patenting and use of patent literature is taught in computer exercises. Case studies of business plans and the founding of new biotech companies will be supplemented with discussions with invited entrepreneurs. At the last day of the course, there will be a written exam (aids: pen and hand-written notes). Course directors Professor John Nielsen, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, john.nielsen@sund.ku.dk Professor MSO Peter Ulvskov, Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, SCIENCE, ulvskov@plen.ku.dk Teachers University researchers with entrepreneurial experience from both Sweden and Denmark, IPR-experts, entrepreneurs, research directors from biotech, Tech Trans experts and venture capitalists. Dates 29 January to 2 February 2018 (week 5) Course location University of Copenhagen, PharmaSchool, Universitetsparken 2, 2100 Copenhagen Registration Please register before 1 December 2017 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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