IP Portfolio Management: Program

Training Week #1
Patent Portfolio Strategic Management
INPI, Lisbon - 26-28 April 2011
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DRAFT PROGRAM

Tuesday, April 26

9:00 – 9:15 - Welcome Remarks and Introduction

9:15 – 9:30 – Workshop Overview

9:30 – 10:30 – A Review of Patent Preparation and Prosecution

10:30 – 11:30 – When to File for Protection of a New Idea

11:30 – 11:45 – Q&A and discussion

11:45 – 12:00 – Break

12:00 – 13:00 – Interacting with Outside Counsel Handling Your Individual Case – Domestic or Priority Filing and Foreign Prosecution

13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 – Portfolio Management

16:30 – 17:30 – Searching for Licensing Opportunities

Wednesday, April 27

Morning: Hands-on training based on selected case studies from TTOs

Examples of questions to be addressed:
- Are the claims strong enough?
- How to protect new advancements in the invention?

Case#1: IST - “Process of cork expansion with environmentally innocuous compounds”
Case#2: TecMinho - Bioresorbable and flexible membranes exhibiting asymmetric

Afternoon: One-to-one meetings with speakers to discuss specific/confidential cases of IP management.

Thursday, April 28

One-to-one meetings with speakers to discuss specific/confidential cases of IP management.