Preserving Innovation: Navigating the Essentials of Intellectual Property Protection

In high tech industries intellectual property may be a company’s most valuable asset. Protection of a company’s IP – patents, trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets – can be a key strategy for obtaining and maintaining competitive advantage in the marketplace. This webinar will focus primarily on patents, including what might makes a patent essential for a protecting inn

Target Audience:

This webinar is intended for corporate counsel or persons in other leadership positions in companies that are developing innovations that they would like to protect from being copied by competitors. The content would also be beneficial to inventors within such companies that are involved in developing the innovations.

Benefits of attending the course:

To obtain a better understanding of intellectual property, in particular patent law, as well as an understanding of when a patent might be the best vehicle for protecting an innovation and when other forms of protection my be more appropriate as well as to gain a better understanding about what hurdles must be overcome to obtain a patent and the process involved in doing so.

Topics covered in course:

– Forms of intellectual property and how they might be protected
– What rights/benefits a patent conveys to a patentee
– Legal Requirements for obtaining a patent

– Anticipation
– Obviousness
– Written description/enablement
– Patent Eligible Subject Matter
– Procedure for applying for a patent

Speaker(s): Gregory K. Gerstenzang, John T. Spangenberger

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/380844