Alfred Koepf: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2021 |
| Name | Dr. Alfred Koepf |
| Address | Rentsch Partner AG Kirchenweg 8 8008 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | 044 225 70 70 |
| Fax | 044 225 70 80 |
| koepfa@ethz.ch | |
| Department | Chemistry and Applied Biosciences |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
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| 535-0546-00L | Patents | 1 credit | 1V | A. Koepf, P. Pliska | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Knowledge in the field of intellectual property, especially of patents and trademarks, with particular emphasis on pharmaceutics. Introduction into intellectual property; prosecution of patent applications; patent information; exploitation and enforcement of patents; peculiarities in pharmaceutics and medicine; social, political and ethical aspects; Trademarks. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Basic knowledge in the field of industrial property, especially of patents and trademarks, with particular emphasis on the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech field. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | 1. Introduction into industrial property (patents, trademarks, industrial designs); 2. Prosecution of patent applications (patentability); 3. Patent information (patent publications, databases, searches); 4. Exploitation and enforcement of patents (possibilities of exploitation, licenses, parallel imports, scope of protection, patent infringement); 5. Peculiarities in pharmaceutics and medicine (supplementary protection certificates, experimental use exemption, therapy and diagnosis, medical indication); 6. Social, political and ethical aspects (patents and prices for medicinal products, traditional knowledge and ethnomedicine, bioprospecting and biopiracy, human DNA inventions); 7. Trademarks, types of trademarks, grounds for refusal, peculiarities of pharma-trademarks. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | A script is provided in electronic form during the lecture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | - Swiss Patents Act: https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19540108/index.html - Swiss Trademarks Act: https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920213/index.html - Swiss Industrial-Designs Act: https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/20000457/index.html - European Patent Convention: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2010/e/ma1.html - Patent Cooperation Treaty: http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/texts/articles/atoc.htm - Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property: https://www.ige.ch/en.html - European Patent Office: http://www.epo.org/index.html - World Intellectual Property Organization: http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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