IPR Strategy

The planning and organizing of the company’s IPR strategy relates to a more comprehensive entirety than mere patenting. The object of the course is to offer a general view of the operational models and alternatives that a company acting in international markets may choose from.

For instance the following matters are discussed in the training:

• Brief introduction to IP rights
• Significance of IPR for companies
• Innovation process – goals and an implementation example
• Employee’s inventions and how the legislation on employee’s inventions should be taken into account in companies
• IPR and the patenting system
• IPR strategy tools of the company
• Building an IPR portfolio – why?
• Development and management of IPR portfolio
• Patenting — Europe vs. USA
• Competitor monitoring
• Handling infringements of IPR
• Licensing

After the course, the participants are able to recognize the IPR strategy needs in the company’s central business processes.