Course Basics
- Venue - APO, Vienna
- Date - June 10 to 21
- Language - English
- Open to - Patent examiners
- Application Form
WIPO/APO Advanced Training Course on Patent Documentation and Information for Patent Examiners
This training course for patent examiners is organized in cooperation with the Austrian Patent Office (APO).
Content and Structure
- Austrian registration and granting procedure for patents and utility models;
- registration and protection requirements of semiconductors topographies;
- IPC-ECLA patent classification;
- recent issues concerning compulsory licenses for pharmaceutical products, implementation of the Doha Declaration in the EC and the TRIPS Agreement;
- inventive step in the field of patents, with examples;
- PCT and APO;
- electronic data processing in patent administration;
- uniform presentation of bibliographic data in patent documents, using INID Codes;
- information services: library, information unit, registers, legal and technical inquiries, search on the state-of-the-art, written opinion on patentability;
- general overview on patent databases for online search;
- European Patent Office database, EPOQUE practical session;
- non-patent databases; practical examples, useful links;
- Quality Management System (QMS) in the Group Techniques;
- Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPC) for patents in the fields of pharmaceutical products and pesticides;
- computer-implemented inventions: discussions of practical examples, useful links;
- inventions in the field of biotechnology.
