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Two Day Seminar: The Art of European Claim Drafting (London, United Kingdom - November 26-27, 2018) - ResearchAndMarkets.com
[September 18, 2018]

Two Day Seminar: The Art of European Claim Drafting (London, United Kingdom - November 26-27, 2018) - ResearchAndMarkets.com


The "The Art of European Claim Drafting" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This seminar combines one day of claim drafting fundamentals with a further day of focused workshops. Attendees have the choice of either a mechanical or chemical workshop.

Who Should Attend:

  • Trainee patent attorneys - preparing short or long term to qualify
  • Patent attorneys in private practice
  • Corporate patent attorneys and lawyers
  • People working or training in intellectual property

Agenda:

Day one

Led by Joeri Beetz and Leytham Wall

09.00 Registration and refreshments

09.30 Know the invention

  • Know the client
  • Understand the invention
  • Novelty
  • The invention and the prior art

10.30 Refreshments

10.45 Claim drafting fundamentals

  • Clarity (News - Alert)
  • Claim scope
  • Dos and don'ts

12.45 Lunch

13.45 The importance of a good description

  • Structure of te description
  • Amendments and clarity
  • Sufficiency of disclosure



14.30 Amendments

  • Legal background
  • In the priority year
  • After filing
  • Limitation
  • Opposition
  • Inescapable trap

15.00 Refreshments


15.15 Claim interpretation

  • Art. 69 EPC
  • Before and after grant
  • EP v US

16.00 International considerations

  • US
  • PCT
  • Asia
  • Drafting a global application
  • PCT applications and priority pitfalls

17.00 Close of day one

Day Two

Led by Joeri Beetz

08.30 Refreshments

09.00 Preparation phase

  • Closest prior art selection
  • Novel and inventive features
  • Claim categories, technical fields

Claim sketching

  • Requirements of a patent
  • Novelty
  • Inventive step
  • Clarity
  • Essential features

10.30 Refreshment break

10.45 Claim drafting

  • Functional claiming
  • Mere juxtaposition of features
  • One- and two-part claims
  • Scope of protection. How broad?

Dependent claims

  • Claim trees
  • Claim dependencies

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Drafting the description

  • Support inventive step
  • Create fall-back positions

15.00 Refreshment Break

Exercises

  • The problem solution approach
  • Closet prior art selection
  • Claim categories
  • Novelty and inventive features

17.00 End of Workshop

For more information about this conference visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ljz379/two_day_seminar?w=4


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