Course - Patenting and Commercialization of Biotech and Medtech Inventions - BI3018
Patenting and Commercialization of Biotech and Medtech Inventions
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About the course
Course content
Topics that will be covered in the course include Patenting: Principles, process, national/international laws, regulations and practice, similarities/differences between European and US patenting laws and practise. IPR strategies: Scientific/commercial aspects, how to develop an IP strategy to accelerate the innovation process and to safeguard IP investments, mastering freedom to operate in the Biotech/MedTech industry, Patent litigations, infringements and enforcements. Licensing: Models and negotiation strategies. Clinical testing: Design, implementation, analysis and presentation of clinical trials, adaptive clinical trial designs. Bio-tech/Med-tech business development: Strategy and organization when transferring a scientific idea into a commercial product/business, business plan development, product pipeline analysis, market analysis, market potential prediction, alliance structures and negotiation conditions, capital capture (pre-seed, seed, VC).
Target group: Masters and PhD students, Tech Trans personnel, Biotech/Medtech staff, university academic staff
Learning outcome
The course will give knowledge of and experience in patenting, IPR strategy, licensing, clinical testing, business development in Biotech/Medtech.
Learning methods and activities
The course is a combination of lectures and teamwork where the students will be able to practise every topic in the course.
The lecturers are International, highly recognized experts from international patenting offices, pharma industry and entrepreneurial assistance company. The same experts will also supervise the teamwork.
Teamwork participation
Submission written project assignment. Evaluation: grade by letter
Recommended previous knowledge
Target group: Masters and PhD students, Tech Trans personnel, Biotech/Medtech staff
Required previous knowledge
Bachelor degree or equivalent.
Course materials
Lecture notes from web and distributed materials.
Subject areas
- Biology
- Biotechnology