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1 Politecnico di Milano Chiara Moreschini PATENTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Prof.ssa Chiara Franzoni AA 2021/22 2 Some of the material included in this book is a modification of the slides provided by Professor Chiara Franzoni during the course of Patents and Intellectual Property Management (Politecnico di Milano, AA 2021/22) and of the slides included in the Intellectual Property Teaching Kit of the EPO and EUIPO. The author credits Professor Chiara Franzoni, the EPO and the EUIPO as the providers of the original. Neither Professor Chiara Franzoni, the EPO nor the EUIPO are responsible for the correctness of the changes. 3 INDEX 1. Patents; Pag. 4 2. The requirements; Pag. 16 3. Types of ips; Pag. 30 4. The patent procedures; Pag. 50 5. IP strategy – extracting value from intangibles; Pag. 64 6. IP portfolio management; Pag. 77 7. IP violations; Pag. 83 8. Assessing the value of IPs; Pag. 92 4 1. PATENTS WHAT ARE PATENTS Patents are property rights over an invention1. They confer the exclusive right to exploit commercially an invention for a limited period of time. Patents are right to exclude others to reproduce, do or use the invention covered by the patent, as long as the use are commercial (non-commercial use are usually excluded by the patents, so others can use the invention in those cases). • The right is granted to those who have put the resources in the invention (supporting company and/or inventors); • The right is granted for a limited amount of time; • The right is conditional on fulfilling a set of requirements. The right arises only at the end of a patenting procedure, aimed at ascertain the existence of the requirements; • The right is given in exchange of a revelation (disclosure) of the invention in the open domain; • When the patent…