Training session: How to write the claims of an invention? 30/10/2018

On October 30th, at 4:30 p.m., room V1.06 (Pav. Civil, Alameda), a session on intellectual property, integrated in the initiative Dias da PI@Técnico, will be held on the topic How to write the claims of an invention?. This training session will be especially useful for those who intend to apply for a patent application or potential applicants, but it is not necessary to have knowledge of IP or direct contact with a request.

Dias da PI@Técnico is organized by IST Mechanical Engineering department in collaboration with the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI). This will be the second session of 2018 and the trainers will be INPI examiners: Rui Bento and Isabel Nunes.

To participate, you need a pre-registration: https://goo.gl/forms/GnougNVieRhOvv8B2

Session Program:
16:30 - Welcome
16:45 - Beginning of training:
I. I have an invention, and now?
- Do I have an invention?
- What is the state of the art? Internet + INPI
- Set Priority
- Writing Strategy
II. Claims Writing
- Legal Framework
- Analysis of Form
- Independent and Dependent Claims
- Claim Categories
- Clarity of Claims
- Terminology
- Writing Strategy
- Testing the Writing
- Conclusions
18:00 – Q&A’s and Coffee Break