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Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office

Seminar: Freedom to operate

Munich (DE): 28.11.2024

Starts: 28.11.2024 9:00hrs
Ends: 28.11.2024 17:00hrs

Venue

Novotel Munich Messe
Willy-Brandt-Platz 1
81829 Munich
Germany

Description

This one day seminar is mainly addressed to experienced or intermediate level patent attorneys and aims at providing insight on a freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis which helps to identify risks involved in bringing a product to market in a country in which you wish to do so, without infringing existing third-party rights.

Our speakers, Olaf Ungerer and Colin McCarney, will present typical steps of an FTO analysis, what you should pay particular attention to, how to develop a search strategy, how to define a search object, how to link search terms, how to interpret patent claims, and how to evaluate found hits and what legal bypass options there are. This seminar will be moderated by Andreas Winter.

Extensive interaction with the audience is expected and welcome for the on-site session.

Target group

The seminar is intended for patent attorneys, heads and members of patent and legal departments and attorneys at law.


Level of expertise
Intermediate level


Application and use of personal data

Please do not use capital letters when filling the online registration form. Please indicate only personal email addresses.

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After the event we will send you a link for a feedback survey. Participation in the survey is voluntary. The data processing in the survey is anonymous. If you do not wish to receive the link, you can object to the data processing in advance. To do so, please contact [email protected].

Working language

  • English

Registration fee

Participation fee (epi-member)
EUR 375,-
Participation fee (epi-student)
EUR 188,-
Participation fee (non epi-member)
EUR 475,-

Contact

For further information, please contact Noreen Osterlehner ([email protected]).

Minimum number of participants

30*
*If the minimum number of participants was not reached by the registration deadline, the event will be cancelled. In this case the epi will inform you immediately.

Capacity

Event has free slots available

Registration deadline

Registration is open until 14.11.2024 The order of receipt by epi will determine the attendance in case of over-subscription.

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