Duration
1 year
Training structure
Faculty of Law and Political Science
Presentation
The D.U. Innovation Valorisation Partenariats is a diploma course designed to enable staff from research organizations, companies and students to study all aspects of scientific data and research relating to the "living world".
Program
One day a week from mid-March to the end of June.
This course is organized into three modules: production/innovation, dissemination/promotion, exploitation/partnership.
1- Module 1: Innovation (40 hours)
- Legal "reservation" of the living being
- (intellectual property COV Patent , contracts , civil liability, )
- The VOC/patent link
- Collaborative creations
- Software protection and operation
- Bio-banks and scientific collections
2- Module 2: Adding value (20 h)
- Patenting strategies
- Technology watch - Industrial intelligence
- INPI registration procedure (patent, trademark)
- Legal deposit procedure (databases, software, etc.)
- Management of public/private patent portfolios
- Research tax credit
3- Module 3: Partnerships (30 h)
- Contracts for access to and use of biological materials(MTA)
- Technology transfer contracts (communication of know-how)
- Research collaboration contract (Contract for research services)
- Confidentiality agreement
- Patent assignment and license agreement
- Incubation contract
Admission
Access conditions
For students in initial training:
Students in L3, M1 and M2 will be required to take the year-long intellectual property course delivered in Master 1.
For continuing education students :
If you are unable to take the Master 1 intellectual property course, you will be given a specific intellectual property refresher course before taking the DU. (elisabeth.guigues @ univ-montp1.fr)
Target audience
For students at Master 1 level and/or for continuing education.
Staff of research organizations, companies and students to study all topics related to scientific data and research on "living organisms".
Necessary prerequisites
Intellectual property law (M1) (33h) or, for continuing education, intellectual property law refresher course (1 day) plus reading of an industrial property textbook.