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

Activity no.: 3241-15-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 18/01/2015
Date and time26.01.2015, at: 09:00 - 31.01.2015, at: 16:00
Regular seats20
Course fee5,280.00 kr.
ECTS credits4.00
Contact personMarianne Wieslander Jørgensen    E-mail address: marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
PhD students from Danish universities attend for free. The fee applies to other participants eg. postdocs and staff.

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:

a. make participants familiar with the steps required in developing biotechnological products e.g. new drugs or biopharmaceuticals
b. 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
c. 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
d. analyze and discuss the commercial potential of biotechnological ideas and inventions based on the technology platform, IP situation, and market analyses
e. 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)

The material for the course comprise a text book (Patenting in Biotechnology, a laboratory manual) by Peter Ulvskov, and a list of documents to be printed and/or read before or during the course.

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.

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

Course secretary/coordinator
Marianne W. Jørgensen, Marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk

Dates
January 26-31, 2015

Course location
University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Campus

Registration: Please register before December 16, 2014

Admission to PhD students from Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the rules in force.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrollment.