Patents related to biomedicine: pharmacy, biotechnology, and biomedical informatics

This course provides an overview of the patenting process, sources of patent information and the various means of answering patent information requests pertaining to drugs, chemicals, biologics, and biomedical softwares. The course is oriented to both junior and senior researchers in the field of biomedicine.

Speaker: Prof. Pascual Segura, B. Sc. in Chemistry at Univ. de Valencia and Ph. D. at Univ. Barcelona (UB). Patent attorney of the UB. Director and founder of the UB Patents Centre. Elected member of the first Academic Advisory Board of the European Patent Academy, European Patent Office.