Training Workshop - Evaluating Invention Disclosures

Program

Registration

Please fill in the registration below and send it to the swiTT office latest by May 13  Upon receipt of the registration, you will get a confirmation and a couple of days later an invoice.

 

 

Target audience

Professionals working at universities or in companies who are responsible for evaluating Invention Disclosures and according working steps

 

Workshop Goals

This workshop will address the following questions and topics :

  • What is an invention, examples, stories, invention vs discovery, basic elements of patentability
  • Typical disclosure forms, examples of disclosures
  • Key criteria which are essential in evaluating an invention and how to proceed, relations with inventors
  • How to acquire further useful information, how to make best use of the Thomson Innovation database
  • Exchange experiences and good practices among participants and moderators
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Date, Location and General Information

Date Thursday, May 19th
Location University of Bern, Building Hallerstrasse 6, Bern
Room Room 205, on the 2nd floor - Lernzentrum
Languag English
Costs CHF 120.00 for members of swiTT or SBA
CHF 280.00 for other participants
Food The workshop fee includes food and beverages
Registration Deadline Friday, May 13th
Time 09.45 – 16.30

 

Moderators

Gabriel Clerc heads the technology transfer office of EPFL. He is co-founder and former president of swiTT.
Before joining EPFL in 1988, Gabriel trained as mechanical engineer of EPFL and was active in industrial R&D (Sulzer) and thereafter in the field of flight testing (Swiss gvnmt).

Natalia Giovannini is technology transfer officer at EPFL. She is member of the board of swiTT.
Natalia has a molecular biology background and has participated in various research programs between 1994 and 2002 in the fields of transcription regulation, biology of the development and metabolism. Natalia is active in licensing EPFL technologies since 2002 and Vice President of swiTT since 2008.

Timo Kandler, Regional Account Manager EMEA, Thomson Reuters, a world wide active company specialised in various disciplins of information research, information management and information distribution. Thomson Reuters also supplies the database services that are exclusively offered to the swiTT community.
Before joining Thomson Reuters, Timo worked in the Automotive field (BMW) and in engineering (INMATEC)