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Training and Education
The following lists of intellectual property tutorials, courses, institutes, and graduate programs provide an overview of training and education opportunities in intellectual property management. If you have or know of an additional IP educational program that you would like posted in this collection, please email us at editors@iphandbook.org.
ONLINE TUTORIALS
American Bar Association
Continuing Legal Education Programs on Intellectual Property Law
http://www.abanet.org/cle/ecle/
- Biotechnology and the Law: A Primer - Part One
http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=CET07BLBI
- Biotechnology and the Law: A Primer - Part Two
http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=cle&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=CET07BLCI
A primer to help lawyers and their clients find their way through the daunting legal maze that confronts biotechnology companies. The editors and authors of the recently released book Biotechnology and the Law have distilled the book's 950 pages and 21 chapters into a fast- paced overview of key legal issues that affect a biotech company through its complex life cycle. This two-part program serves as a crash course introduction to legal regimes that general counsel or business attorneys might not encounter representing companies in other industries, such as FDA law and regulations, the Bayh-Dole Act, and other regulatory constraints. The program will help intellectual property lawyers, litigators, and employment attorneys appreciate the unique legal landscape confronting biotech companies. All participants will gain a greater ability to spot issues for their biotech clients.
- IP Transactions in a Knowledge Society
http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=CET06IPKI
IP transactions are complex and important business strategies. Whether an attorney is negotiating an M&A or a licensing transaction, protecting IP assets during an important business deal requires careful consideration and implementation of each party’s contract rights and obligations. In this online course, a panel of speakers from different business areas discuss their particular transactional challenges. They discuss the provisions required in a contract in order to protect the company's IP rights and business interests. Different perspectives to be addressed include IP provisions in transactions with start-up companies, nonprofit institutes and universities as well as provisions required in transactions with large companies. Preserving trade secrets, ensuring title to the IP and control over the IP after the transaction will be viewed from the perspective of a mobile and knowledge-based society.
- International Licensing: When Technology Crosses Borders
http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=CET06ITLI
This program is addressed to attorneys in law firms and in-house who need to know how to structure, analyze, draft, and negotiate sophisticated technology transfer agreements where the licensor and the licensee are located in different jurisdictions. International transfers of technology have become so routine that most attorneys take for granted that a purely domestic license agreement can be applied to international situations. However, the issues that arise when technology gets transferred internationally are numerous and require solutions that are anything but intuitive. Identifying the technology, defining royalty payments, the ways in which intellectual property can get protected, liability and associated support, and technical assistance all raise difficulties that can be daunting. The faculty for this program are highly experienced attorneys who have practiced in the United States and Europe, and represent leading companies in all areas of technology: software, hardware, life sciences, industry, internet, and e-commerce.
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Intellectual Property Web Tutorials
http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/iiptutor/ipTutors.htm
Designed primarily for those with some legal training, to introduce the basic concepts and processes specific to intellectual property law.
- Substantive Basics
http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/iiptutor/iip1.htm
An introduction to the practical and legal fundamentals of intellectual property, discussing “The Price of Ignorance” for independent inventors and entrepreneurs, protecting works with patents, copyrights, and trade secrets, and preserving competition by preventing misrepresentations generally and registering trademarks.
- Process Basics
http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/iiptutor/iip2.htm
An overview of legal process most relevant to intellectual property, including basic legal process, jurisdictional source of rights, appeals, need for administrative action, and court review.
esp@cenet
Patent Search Assistant Tutorial
www.european-patent-office.org/wbt/espacenet/assistant.php?CY=ep&LG=en&nStartIndex=0
This interactive training course offers everything you need to use esp@cenet for efficiently patent searching: search strategies, power tips, background information and more...
University of Maryland University College
Online Copyright Tutorials
- ©Primer
http://www-apps.umuc.edu/primer/enter.php
The ©Primer is an introduction to issues concerning copyright ownership and use of information. The interactive tutorial overviews the underlying principles behind copyright in the United States, outlines the requirements for copyright protection as well as discusses the parameters of use and access of copyrighted material. The ©Primer is intended to introduce both creators and users of information to the nuts and bolts of copyright law. Consisting of twenty-one questions and answers, the ©Primer includes illustrative scenarios and resources for further information and study.
- Digital©Primer
http://www-apps.umuc.edu/dcprimer/enter.php#
Following the ©Primer (above) the Digital©Primer focuses specifically on issues relating to copyright in digital works and the problems encountered by educational institutions in their use of digital materials for teaching, research and service.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Library
Tutorials on “U.S. Patents: Prior Art Searching”
http://www.library.umaine.edu/patents/
Include short tutorials on each of the following:
WIPO Academy Distance Learning
http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/courses/distance_learning/
- Primer on Intellectual Property
http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/courses/distance_learning/catalog/dl001primer.html
The "Primer on Intellectual Property" (DL-001) covers briefly the fundamental aspects of intellectual property, i.e. copyright, related rights, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial design, patents, new plant varieties, unfair competition, enforcement of intellectual property rights and emerging issues in intellectual property. The course materials, presented in 12 sections, are followed by a series of Self-Assessment Questions. DL-001 is intended to provide you with a quick overview of intellectual property and the reasons why it is considered an important economic and cultural asset in today’s life and economy. It constitutes an effective introduction to intellectual property, and will stimulate your interest in pursuing further readings and studies in this field.
COURSES / WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
Continuing Education & Training
Professional Development Courses
http://www.autm.net/contEd/index.cfm
AUTM upcoming events regularly includes the following offerings:
- AUTM Basic Licensing Course: for professionals who are new to technology transfer
- AUTM TOOLS Course: for technology transfer office administrative and support staff.
- Advanced Topics in Startup Business Development: provides participants with advanced methods and insights for achieving success at each stage of the startup process
- AUTM Graduate Course: specifically for seasoned technology transfer professionals who want to hone skills and enhance capabilities. The curriculum features interactive sessions with leaders in the field.
- AUTM Executive Forum: Senior technology transfer professionals gather at an open, cooperative retreat to discuss issues that are shaping the future of academic technology transfer.
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Concord, NH, USA
Comprehensive Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Seminar
http://www.piercelaw.edu/pct/
An annual seminar, vital for patent attorneys, patent agents and patent administrators, provides participants in-depth knowledge and understanding of the PCT.
Licensing Executive Society (LESI)
Education Courses Worldwide
http://www.lesi.org/content/education-courses.aspx
Courses offered by national and regional chapters around the globe include:
- Technology Transfer Seminars
- Basic Licensing Courses
- Fundamentals of Intellectual Asset Management
- Intermediate Intellectual Asset Management
Praxis
Technology Transfer Training Programme
http://www.praxiscourses.org.uk/
Praxis is a practitioner-led, independent, not-for-profit company
whose aim is to provide the best quality practitioner-delivered training to people who develop research into commercially viable ideas.
A range of courses and masterclasses available throughout the year are
held at venues across the UK.
Courses are 3 day residential and encourage networking as well as practice based learning.
Masterclasses are 1 day and provide in depth knowledge of a specialist area.
Course range:
- Fundamentals of technology transfer
- Research contracts
- Advanced licensing
- Spin-out company formation
- Business development
Masterclasses:
- Advanced intellectual property
- Non-patent IPR
- Marketing
- Market research
- Negotiation skills
- Finance
Michigan State University, Institute of International Agriculture
East Lansing, MI, USA
An International Internship Program in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR):
Technology Transfer, Use and Management
http://www.iia.msu.edu/shortcourse-ipr.html
A one-week internship program in IPR with focus on technology transfer, use and management within the context of GATT/WTO. This program provides hands-on training in the day-to-day handling of IPR issues in several settings including university, business and legal environments.
- Fundamentals of Intellectual Property (IP)
- Basics of intellectual property: What is IP; copyrights; trademarks; trade secrets; patents; plant variety protection/plant breeder's' rights. - Intellectual property policy, institutional policies; national policies. - Marketing of intellectual property licensing; public distribution; sales. - Management of intellectual property uses; follow through; long-term relationship building.
- Patenting and Patent Laws
- Licensing
- Setting up of a Technology Use and Management Program
- Visits to the Intellectual Property Offices of selected universities, private companies, and private patent attorneys
University of California at Berkeley Extension
Berkeley, CA, USA
Business & Management, Intellectual Property Law Course
http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course264.html
Course provides an up-to-date examination of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade-secret law in the high-tech commercial sector. Special attention is given to the Internet, software licensing, recent technological developments, and recent trends in the legislative and legal arenas. This course can be of particular use to owners of businesses, educators, engineers, administrators, business managers, scientists, contract negotiators, project managers, programmers, systems analysts, lawyers, inventors, corporate executives, purchasing professionals, and others involved in the creation, acquisition, use, sale, marketing, licensing, and ownership of intellectual property.
WIPO Academy Distance Learning
http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/courses/distance_learning/
- General Course on Intellectual Property
http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/courses/distance_learning/catalog/dl101genip.html
This course covers the main areas of intellectual property, namely copyright, related rights, patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial design, plant breeders' rights, unfair competition and international registration systems.
- Biotechnology and Intellectual Property
http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/courses/distance_learning/catalog/dl204bio.html
This advanced course aims to illustrate how you can use the current IP system to protect and commercialize your biotechnological invention. After completing the study of this course, you should be able to develop a sound knowledge of the different legal instruments related to protection of your biotechnology invention and execute a strategy for commercializing your invention.
WIPO List of Courses on Intellectual Property
http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/teaching/study_online/index.html
SUMMER INSTITUTES / CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
Academy of Intellectual Property Studies
Mumbai, India
Certificate in Intellectual Property Management (Workshop Series)
http://www.aips.ac.in/courses/ipm.htm
The Workshop Series on Intellectual Property Management is a flexible program for participants seeking to make a career in IP, as well as for those wanting a critical insight into a particular area of IP such as Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents and Designs. A modular course, it is designed to provide an overview of the different Intellectual Property Right forms. The workshops will cover both the theory and practice behind each of the IPRs, and use of case studies and assignments will be made to facilitate professional skills in the area.
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Six Month Diploma of Intellectual Property (DIP)
Concord, NH, USA
http://www.piercelaw.edu/academics_ip.htm#dip
The Diploma of Intellectual Property incorporates the same course work as the Master of Intellectual Property, but is designed for students who cannot spend an entire year in residence. The Diploma program includes the option of a one month internship at a corporation or law firm. Students may begin the Diploma program in the Fall or Spring semester.
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI)
Concord, NH, USA
http://www.piercelaw.edu/ipsi/
Franklin Pierce Law Center's Intellectual Property Summer Institute, established in 1987, is the most comprehensive academic summer program in intellectual property law and licensing (technology transfer) in the United States. The Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI) included students from American Bar Association accredited law schools and intellectual property professionals from countries around the world. IPSI brings together scholars, practitioners, government officials, and students in a single forum.
Franklin Pierce Law Center and Tsinghua University
China Intellectual Property Summer Institute
Shanghai, China
http://www.piercelaw.edu/chipsi/
The Summer Institute at Tsinghua School of Law, Beijing which started in 2002, is a natural extension of the Intellectual Property Summer Institute of Franklin Pierce Law which has been held in Concord, New Hampshire, every summer since 1987. Tsinghua University, the premier institution of science and technology in China, established its School of Law in 1999 in a new facility at the center of the Tsinghua campus in northwest Beijing, the site of the former Imperial Gardens of the Qing dynasty princes.
University of Washington Extension
Certificate Program in Intellectual Property Management
Seattle, WA, USA
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/inp/inp_gen.asp
This evening program provides a practical, comprehensive overview of legal methods and business strategies for securing rights and establishing partnerships in the growing field of intellectual property management. Graduates of this program have gone on to develop new IP businesses, find better ways to patent their technology, discover more productive approaches to innovation and help their organization or clients better secure and leverage their intellectual property to boost sales and secure competitive advantage. Taught by legal and business professionals, this program provides key skills necessary to create, manage and deploy IP rights including patents, trademarks and copyrights. Participants review, evaluate and propose models for establishing and managing business ventures and relationships using real world intellectual property case studies.
University of Washington Law School
Center for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP)
Patent and Intellectual Property Law and Practice Summer Institute
Seattle, WA, USA
http://www.law.washington.edu/CASRIP/Institute/
The CASRIP Summer Institute offers education and training in the fundamentals of United States and international intellectual property law. The Summer Institute provides engineers, attorneys, agents, patent and licensing department staff or others without experience in intellectual property law with a concise and reasonably priced means of acquiring an understanding of this subject area. Because Summer Institute participants typically come from the United States, Japan, Europe, and elsewhere, there are unique opportunities for networking with other international practitioners of intellectual property law.
WIPO Academy Summer School on Intellectual Property
Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/courses/summer_school/index_2007.html
provide an opportunity for senior students and young professionals to acquire deeper knowledge of IP, and to gain an appreciation of IP as a tool for economic, social, cultural and technological development and the role WIPO plays in the global administration of IP.
GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
Academy of Intellectual Property Studies
Mumbai, India
Post Graduate Diploma in Patent Management
http://www.aips.ac.in/courses/post_graduate.htm
program for all those aspiring to be patent agents / attorneys, and for those whose scope of work involves patents and patenting issues. Our class is not limited to lawyers. We encourage participants with diverse professional skills to apply for the programmes such as engineers, doctors R&D professionals, chartered accountants, analysts etc. No technical or legal background is expected or required. The Course aims to groom professionals who are ready to take charge, who can influence Intellectual Property Management trends and practices through their thought leadership.
Bournemouth University
Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM)
Dorset, United Kingdom
http://www.cippm.org.uk/degrees.html
- Core is the Postgraduate Certificate in Intellectual Property (PG Cert IP) that is available in flexible delivery, requiring attendance for only three block weekends (Thursday evening until Sunday lunchtime). The PG Cert IP offers full exemptions from the CIPA/ITMA Joint Education Board foundation papers.
- The Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property (PG Dip IP) extends the PG Cert with one further unit on Intellectual Property Exploitation (in particular strategic and commercial aspects) , requiring attendance at Bournemouth for one further weekend. In addition, students will research two extended papers off-campus: one a work based project and one an academic essay.
- The award of LLM in Intellectual Property is available for students who (following successful completion of the PG Dip IP) progress to a dissertation of 15,000 words.
Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University
Centre for Intellectual Property Studies (CIP)
Göteborg, Sweden
- Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship (CSE), two year Master’s Program
http://www.entrepreneur.chalmers.se/cse/
At Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, we are educating the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. By matching technology based ideas with teams of highly motivated students and supporting them on the path to commercialization, Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship has successfully been bridging the gap between invention and market since 1997. Our Master’s Program has an unmatched track record of having supported and educated more than two hundred entrepreneurs in building over 27 companies, making us the most renowned school of entrepreneurship in Europe. Taught in English.
- Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School (GIBBS), two year Master’s Program
http://www.cip.chalmers.se/gibbs/
This master level program will give you a comprehensive understanding of key strategic issues in the bioscience industry and provide you with the real-life experience of creating and developing technology based ventures. The Business Design Program is a Master’s Degree education in knowledge-based business creation provided by Chalmers University of Technology through CIP. Within the context of the entrepreneurial knowledge economy, the program teaches students to create and shape a company, claim its intellectual property, and manage innovations, market approach, and human resources to extract financial value. Taught in English.
- School of Intellectual Capital Management (ICM), two year Master’s Program
http://www.icm.cip.chalmers.se/
The Graduate Business School at the School of Business, Economics, and Law of Göteborg University was established in 1997, and has since then offered a set of integrated master programmes, taught in English. These programmes are open to all international and domestic students with a basic academic degree. They are comparable with MBA and master programmes offered by prestigious business and management schools world-wide.
Franklin Pierce Law, Concord, New Hampshire, USA
- Master of Laws in Intellectual Property, Commerce, and Technology (LL.M.)
http://www.piercelaw.edu/academics_ip.htm#llm
The Master of Laws in Intellectual Property, Commerce and Technology (LL.M.) is an academic degree designed for law graduates only. The LL.M. candidate must complete 30 credits of resident coursework. The LL.M. allows students to earn a graduate law degree which focuses more on the business and transactional aspects of intellectual property practice, rather than on purely legal issues. Lawyers and members of law faculties who have come for the LL.M., without prior enrollment in intellectual property courses, will find Pierce Law's program particularly useful for pursuing specialized intellectual property practice.
- Master of Intellectual Property/Commerce and Technology (MIP/CT)
http://www.piercelaw.edu/academics_ip.htm#mipct
The Master of Intellectual Property, Commerce, and Technology (MIP/CT) was the first of its kind in the U.S. to train intellectual property professionals, administrators, lawyers, engineers, and entrepreneurs from the U.S. and abroad who intend to specialize in the practice of intellectual property and licensing.
IP Academy (Singapore)
Singapore
MSc in IP Management
http://www.ipacademy.com.sg/section/education/mip.html
The IP Academy (Singapore) is a national initiative dedicated to the deepening and broadening of Singapore's knowledge and capabilities in Intellectual Property (IP) protection, exploitation and management. The MSc in IP Management is a comprehensive inter-disciplinary post graduate programme in Intellectual Property which bridges law, technology, science, engineering and management. It is jointly offered by the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and administered by the IP Academy, Singapore. The programme is the first of its kind in Singapore and is targeted at mid to senior management, executives and professionals with a background in science, technology or engineering who wish to specialize in the management of IP in a technology-related business.
Munich Intellectual Property Law Center
Munich, Germany
LL.M. Program
http://www.miplc.de/llm/
The last decade has seen an exponential increase in the significance of intellectual property rights, which has stimulated the demand for experts in this field. The MIPLC LL.M. program was founded in 2003 to meet this demand and to close a gap in European law education, which had had no comprehensive LL.M. program devoted to intellectual property. The MIPLC program, jointly administered by the four MIPLC partners, aims to provide postgraduates with the necessary knowledge and skills to deal with intellectual property in a global context at the most sophisticated level. The courses, which are held entirely in English, not only cover all areas of European and international intellectual property, competition, and media law, but also include topics from related fields such as economics and business administration. The international focus of the program ensures that students gain a truly global perspective on IP. In recognition of the successful completion of the one-year program the University of Augsburg awards the degree of Master of Laws (LL.M.).
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
London, UK
MSc in Management of Intellectual Property
http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/maintellprop/
The MSc course is aimed at those who recognise the increasingly important role of intellectual property in our modern economy. There is continual need in industry, commerce and in those professions concerned with intellectual property law. The course is for science and technology graduates who wish to study intellectual property law to a high level.
University of Bologna
Alma Graduate School and the Institute of Advanced Study
Bologna, Italy
Masters in Intellectual Property
www.uibm.gov.it/public/BrochureMasterIP.pdf
The Master prepares students for a career in R&D units of innovative companies in both manufacturing and service industries, technology transfer offices at universities and research centres, law and consulting firms, international organizations, and national and international patent and trademark offices.
University of Melbourne
Melbourne Business School
Melbourne, Australia
Master of Management (Innovation)
http://www.mbs.edu/go/degree-programs/innovation-programs/certificate-in-innovation-management
Our Master of Management (Innovation) is the most comprehensive program on innovation. The program caters for the varying needs of a range of professionals in government and private sectors across many industries. This degree will equip you with the skills and knowledge to:
- better understand the innovation process
- develop your ability to commercialise intellectual property
- learn how to fund an entrepreneurial venture
- manage technical or scientific staff
- foster an environment that encourages innovative thinking
- promote innovation and entrepreneurship in your organization.
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