Intellectual Property and Technological Transfer
Code: 43428 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | OB | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Xavier Vallve Sanchez
- Email:
- xavier.vallve@uab.cat
Teachers
- (External) Júlia Palma
Teaching groups languages
You can view this information at the end of this document.
Prerequisites
None
Objectives and Contextualisation
The objective of this module is to provide the student with tools to innovate and help and suport scientific skills. Different forms of protecting new scientific research, information on technology transfer and business aspects of IP, and use of technical information are introduced.
Competences
- Analyse research results to obtain new products or processes, assessing their industrial and commercial viability with a view to transferring them to society
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Manage intellectual property product research and development in nanoscience and nanotechnology, and make its commercial exploitation.
- Seek out information in the scientific literature using appropriate channels, and use this information to formulate and contextualise a research topic.
- Show expertise in using scientific terminology and explaining research results in the context of scientific production, in order to understand and interact effectively with other professionals.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse research results to obtain new products or processes, assessing their industrial and commercial viability with a view to transferring them to society.
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Describe the structure of a business plan, and argue the validity or otherwise of a business proposal.
- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of the legal forms in which companies can be technology-based.
- Indicate the stages of licensing intellectual property for commercial use.
- Know the procedure for processing of a patent, the concepts that are patentable and the rights that flow from it.
- Seek out information in the scientific literature using appropriate channels, and use this information to formulate and contextualise a research topic.
- Show expertise in using scientific terminology and explaining research results in the context of scientific production, in order to understand and interact effectively with other professionals.
Content
During the course the following topics are to be covered:
(i) Different forms of protecting research results
(ii) Patents: structure, prosecution, infringement, licensing
(iii) Patent information
(iv) Technology transfer and business aspects of IP
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Tutorial support sessions | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 7, 6, 3, 8, 4, 5 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Reading support materials | 40 | 1.6 | 1, 7, 6, 3, 8, 4, 5, 2 |
The objectives of the course are to be achieved by means of regular teaching, attendance to proposed seminars, working on projects and self-study.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance and participation | 10% | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Delivery of projects | 45% | 90 | 3.6 | 1, 7, 6, 3, 8, 4, 5, 2 |
| Exam | 45% | 0 | 0 | 7, 6, 4, 5 |
In order to qualify for this course, the following items are to be considered:
(i) exam (45%)
(ii) patent project (45%)
(iii) Attendance and participation (10%)
It is possible to have the chance to increase the mark of the synthesis exam in an extra test (only for those students that have carried out all previous evaluations along the course, irrespective of the marks).
Bibliography
To be provided at the beginning of the course
Software
software to show teaching material
Groups and Languages
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAULm) Classroom practices (master) | 1 | English | second semester | afternoon |
| (TEm) Theory (master) | 1 | English | second semester | morning-mixed |