European Claim Drafting Course & Workshop (London, United Kingdom - November 7-8, 2019)

DUBLIN, Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

Why you should attend

• Enhance your understanding of the principles of the drafting process
• Refine your drafting skills and understand the fundamentals of European claim drafting
• Master the art of successfully preparing and defending claims according to European practice
• Learn techniques to achieve adequate protection while meeting official requirements
• Analyse the crucial aspects of good description, amendments and interpretation
• Gain the edge in claims drafting through in-depth chemical or mechanical workshops

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:

Programme Day One

Led by Joeri Beetz and Leytham Wall

Know the invention

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

Claim drafting fundamentals

• Clarity
• Claim scope
• Dos and don'ts

The importance of a good description

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

Amendments

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

Claim interpretation

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

International considerations

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

Programme day two Chemical Workshop

CHEMICAL WORKSHOP

Led by Leythem Wall

Introduction

• Warm-up exercises
• Chemical claim types

Further considerations for chemical drafting

• Exclusion from patentability
• Exceptions to patentability
• Parameters
• Selection inventions
• Disclaimers
• Inventive step v sufficiency
• Sufficiency v clarity
• Drafting to allow for future amendments

Claim drafting exercise

• Invention description
• Essential features
• Optional features
• Examples
• Technical effects
• Prior art
• Drafting independent claims
• Drafting dependent claims
• Drafting the description

Programme day two MECHANICAL WORKSHOP

MECHANICAL WORKSHOP

Led by Joeri Beetz

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

Claim drafting

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

Dependent claims

• Claim trees
• Claim dependencies

Drafting the description

• Support inventive step
• Create fall-back positions

Exercises

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

For more information about this conference visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/ucjkc5

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