Workshop on ip patents, trademarks Programme Use of ip in Business

Workshop on IP Patents, trademarks

Programme

• Use of IP in Business

• Patent

• Utility models

• Design

• Copyright

• Trademark

• Innovation process

What does IP mean?

Use of IP in Business

IP in Summary

What is a Patent?

• You can say it is:

• An agreement between the

• inventor and society

• Alternative definition (legal):

• A patent is an exclusive right to commercially exploit the invention in this country. Protection up to 20 years

Exclusive rights

• Forbid others commercially to:

• produce, sell, work, use,
• import, possess the invention

• The exclusive right does not extend to:

• acts performed for non-commercial purposes
• acts performed for experimental purposes
• Individual production of a medicinal product at a pharmacy

What is patentable?

• Patents are granted for inventions which are technical, that is inventions which are capable of being industrially exploitable

What can be patented?

• A Product

• The apparatus for

• producing the product

• The process

• The use

What cannot be patented?

• Computer programmes

• Medical and surgical treatments

• Mathematical methods

• Business methods

• Discoveries

• Aesthetic creations

• New species of plant or animal

• Inventions which are contrary to moral standards and public order (e.g. instruments of torture)

• The human body and any non-separate part/s thereof

Contrary to moral standards?

What is an invention?

• A technical teaching which defines a relation between technical features and technical effect

• Has to be reproducible

Inventions are often concerned with every-day problems or “trends”

Inventors are ahead of their time!

The patentable invention must be:

• Capable of industrial application

• New / Novelty

• Significantly different from that which

• is already known

Industrial application

• The invention must have at least one practical purpose and must be reproducible

• There is no evaluation of quality or economical factors!

• Only the technical qualities are relevant

Novelty

• Novelty: An objective, global demand

• New in relation to that which is known prior to the date of filing the application

• Known = general availability through the written word, spoken word (lectures, etc.), usage, etc.

• Disclosure agreement

The Inventive Step

• To differ significantly =

• Inventive step

• Subjective evaluation

Invention:

Documents found:

Invention:

Documents found:

Prior art – the known technical solution:

Invention:

Utility Model

• The ”Patent-system” for smaller inventions

• Conditions:

• Solve a technical problem
• New
• Inventive step

• Often used for inventions concerning:

• Household goods
• Hand tools
• Furniture

Utility Models - example

Utility Models - example

Utility Models - example

Utility Models

• Registration – no search in DK

• The integration between the patent and the utility model systems

• Priority
• Conversion

Utility Model – level of difference 1

Utility Model – level of difference 1

Utility Model – level of difference 2

Utility Model – level of difference 2

Why a Utility Model?

• Protects minor inventions excluded from patent protection

• Protects inventions where a shorter protection period is required

• Speedy protection

• Easy

• Cheap

Practicalities

• Aby uzyskać patent na wynalazek lub prawo ochronne na wzór użytkowy należy złożyć zgłoszenie, które powinno obejmować:

• podanie zawierające oznaczenie zgłaszającego, określenie przedmiotu zgłoszenia oraz wniosek o udzielenie patentu lub prawa ochronnego

• opis wynalazku/wzoru ujawniający jego istotę,

• zastrzeżenie lub zastrzeżenia

• skrót opisu

• rysunki, wzory chemiczne itp.

• Wnieść opłatę (500 zł)

International patent systems

• Basic principle:

• Patent in each country

• The systems:

• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

• European Patent Convention (EPC)

• Other regional systems (OAPI, ARIPO, EURASIAN)

European Patent (EPC)

• Single place of filing

• Single place of

• completion

• Single place of

• granting

• More economical than

• group of countries

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

• Single place of filing

• International novelty and patentability search

• Finial decision for countries

• Main advantage:

• Postponement for 31 months

International Fees

• EPC-fees

• Filing fee € 95 (paper - € 170)

• Novelty international search fee € 1,615

• Designation fees for each state stipulated in the application € 80

• Examination fee € 1,335 / 1,490

• Upon validation in the individual countries, filing fees and annual fees become payable to each country. In addition there are application fees and translation costs

Patents

Consequences of infriging

• If you infringe someone else’s patent, you may risk:

• Injunction, which means that all your products may be removed from the market

• Destruction of your products

• Paying damages to the patent owner

• Being given a fine, e.g. the Kodak vs. Polaroid case

• Being sentenced to imprisonment (in gross cases)

Why patent?

• To

• provide insurance for one’s invention and investments in developing technology

• prevent others from patenting the invention and secure one’s place in the market

• attract investors for further development, and to hold on to current investors

• sell the patent rights in the future as a single commodity or business

• marketing value

• Thank you for your attention!

Search workshop

• How to use patent databases

• Presentation of Espacenet

• Presentation of Polish Database

• Exercises