DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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.
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:
Day one
Led by Joeri Beetz and Leytham Wall
09.00 Registration and refreshments
09.30 Know the invention
- Know the client
- Understand the invention
- Novelty
- The invention and the prior art
10.30 Refreshments
10.45 Claim drafting fundamentals
- Clarity
- Claim scope
- Dos and don'ts
12.45 Lunch
13.45 The importance of a good description
- Structure of the description
- Amendments and clarity
- Sufficiency of disclosure
14.30 Amendments
- Legal background
- In the priority year
- After filing
- Limitation
- Opposition
- Inescapable trap
15.00 Refreshments
15.15 Claim interpretation
- Art. 69 EPC
- Before and after grant
- EP v US
16.00 International considerations
- US
- PCT
- Asia
- Drafting a global application
- PCT applications and priority pitfalls
17.00 Close of day one
Day Two
Led by Joeri Beetz
08.30 Refreshments
09.00 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
10.30 Refreshment break
10.45 Claim drafting
- Functional claiming
- Mere juxtaposition of features
- One- and two-part claims
- Scope of protection. How broad?
Dependent claims
- Claim trees
- Claim dependencies
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Drafting the description
- Support inventive step
- Create fall-back positions
15.00 Refreshment Break
Exercises
- The problem solution approach
- Closet prior art selection
- Claim categories
- Novelty and inventive features
17.00 End of Workshop