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Course on Intellectual Property Rights

This course is for IMDEA Software staff only. Also available online via zoom.

Gabriel Castilla

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

3:00pm Lecture hall 1, level B

Gabriel Castilla, Head of engineering, PONS IP

Introduction

  • 1.1. Modalities of Industrial Property (IP) protection.
  • 1.2. Intellectual Property. Differences with Industrial Property.
  • 1.3. What is a Patent?
  • 1.4. What inventions can be protected?
  • 1.5. Why protect by patent?
  • 1.6. Patent holder vs. inventor. Work-related inventions.
  • 1.7. Scientific article vs. Patent.
  • 1.8. Use of information or knowledge contained in patents (or patent applications) of third parties.


Time and place:
3:00pm Lecture hall 1, level B
IMDEA Software Institute, Campus de Montegancedo
28223-Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

Dennis Cumba

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

3:00pm Lecture hall 1, level B

Dennis Cumba, Patent Technician, PONS IP

Content of a patent

  • 2.1. Patentability requirements. Exclusions. Parts of a patent.
  • 2.2. Computer-implemented inventions (patentable software).
  • 2.3. Protection strategy and territorial scope.
  • 2.4. Extensions and International agreements (European Patent and PCT).
  • 2.5. Artificial intelligence. Patent protection.
  • 2.6. Doubts and queries.


Time and place:
3:00pm Lecture hall 1, level B
IMDEA Software Institute, Campus de Montegancedo
28223-Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

Eric Maciá

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

3:00pm Lecture hall 1, level B (only IMDEA Software staff, also online)

Eric Maciá, Lawyer specializing in IT, PONS IP

Open source. Protection by secrecy. Mechanisms or types of technology and/or knowledge transfer agreements

  • 3.1. Precautions when using free and open-source software.
  • 3.2. Procedure for the protection as a trade secret. Generation of electronic evidence.
  • 3.3. Types of technology transfer agreements: licensing agreements, technology integration agreements, resale licensing agreements, codevelopment agreements.
  • 3.4. The exploitation of results in the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 programme.
  • 3.5. Doubts and queries.


Time and place:
3:00pm Lecture hall 1, level B (only IMDEA Software staff, also online)
IMDEA Software Institute, Campus de Montegancedo
28223-Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

José Carlos Erdozain

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

3:00pm Lecture hall 1, level B (only IMDEA Software staff, also online)

José Carlos Erdozain, PhD in Civil Law, PONS IP

Alternatives to a patent for the protection of a computer program. Intellectual property. Implications of the Metaverse and artificial intelligence

  • 4.1. Legal concept of software.
  • 4.2. Software created as a collaborative work and as a collective work.
  • 4.3. Software developed at enterprise level.
  • 4.4. Registration of a computer programme
  • 4.5. Metaverse. NFTs. Legal implications from the point of view of the protection of intangible assets.
  • 4.6. Doubts and queries.


Time and place:
3:00pm Lecture hall 1, level B (only IMDEA Software staff, also online)
IMDEA Software Institute, Campus de Montegancedo
28223-Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain