Alfred Koepf: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2016

Name Dr. Alfred Koepf
Address
Rentsch Partner AG
Kirchenweg 8
8008 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telephone044 225 70 70
Fax044 225 70 80
E-mailkoepfa@ethz.ch
DepartmentChemistry and Applied Biosciences
RelationshipLecturer

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
535-0546-00LPatents1 credit1VA. Koepf, P. Pliska
AbstractKnowledge 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.
ObjectiveBasic knowledge in the field of industrial property, especially of patents and trademarks, with particular emphasis on the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech field.
Content1. 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 notesA script is available in electronic form during the lecture.
Literature- Swiss Patents Act: http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c232_14.html
- Swiss Trademarks Act: http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c232_11.html
- Swiss Industrial-Designs Act: http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c232_12.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