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Using patents as sources for genetic information - two workshops

Munich 31 July 2008 -- Working through the European Commission's FELICS project, the European Bioinformatics Institute and the European Patent Office (EPO) offer a two-day training course for biotechnology research scientists on patent information and the patent system. The programme for the workshops will help researchers unlock the full potential of the technical information available in published patent applications and sequence databases, and show them how they can maximise the benefits of their invention through patent protection.

The workshops in The Hague (4&5 September) and Munich (11&12 September) offer insight on the European patent system and how to search patent data bases for patent information related to genetic information. In a combination of hands-on and lecture based training, they specifically address the information needs of researchers in the fields of genomic, bioinformatics and sequence searching.

Created in 2006, FELICS (Free European Life-sciences Information and Computational Services) aims at organising a complete range of bio-molecular information upon which European life-science research depends.

It interlinks many of the most important data resources in Europe and widens their accessibility to the scientific community worldwide. Financed under the EU's sixth Framework Programme it is supported by four partners, namely the European Bioinformatics Institute, the EPO, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Technical University of Braunschweig for a period of five years.

Detailed information on the programme and access to the registration tools can be found on this website:

• The Hague
• Munich

For more information please contact:

Mr Florent Resche-Rigon
European Patent Academy - Innovation Support
European Patent Office
Tel. +49 (0)89 2399 5672
frescherigon@epo.org

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