Patents 101

Jane is an intellectual property barrister practising from 4-5 Gray's Inn  Square in London.  She founded NIPC, the first and so far only specialist IP and tech law chambers outside London, in Lancaster Buildings on Deansgate which subsequently merged with 4-5 Gray's Inn Square.  She has appeared in many impoirtant cases in IP and technology law and has written numerous books and articles on the subject.  She is also an arbitrator, mediator and domain name dispute resolution panellist for the WIPO.

Jane Lambert

A  thorough introduction to English patent law

<p> A talk designed primarily for entrepreneurs, business owners and managers but also useful for lawyers  specializing in fields other than IP and perhaps even associates and trainees joining IP departments.  It will cover the following topics:</p><ul><li>What is a patent?</li><li>The development of patent law from the Statute of Monopolies to the European Patent Convention and the Patents Act 1977;</li><li>Why governments grant patents: the inventor&#x27;s bargain with the public;</li><li>Institutions: The Intellectual Property Office, the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization;</li><li>Patentable inventions: novelty, inventive step, utility and excluded matter;</li><li>How to apply for a patent;</li><li>Specification;</li><li>Claims and how to interpret them;</li><li>Enforcement: the Patents Court, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, Examiners&#x27; opinions;</li><li>Revocation: anticipation, obviousness, insufficiency and added matter;</li><li>Threats actions;</li><li>Employees&#x27; inventions;</li><li>Licensing; </li><li>supplementary protection certificates; and </li><li>Alternatives to patenting.</li></ul><p>Every attendee will receive s full set of course materials in pdf format and my slides can be downloaded from Slideshare.</p>

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