2nd edition – Free online course: CAF Method for Accelerated Patent Development

Convocation from March 29 to May 31, 2019

The second edition of this MOOC (massive open online course) seeks to teach you to write a patent specification, including drawings, handling of databases such as Google Patents and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to make preliminary designs and to define efficient patenting strategies that will allow you to optimize time and resources and to have an impact on the development, growth, competitiveness and productivity of your country.

This course was developed by CAF experts based on the CAF Method for Accelerated Patent Development, which has been taught in many classroom workshops in Paraguay, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Peru and Mexico. This method seeks to demystify the creative process for developing patentable technologies. It covers issues ranging from public policies and strategies for developing patentable technologies to quick conceptualization methods, novelty searches, and writing patent specifications, including charts and drawings.

In this course we will provide you with all the tools to create patentable technology concepts with a high social and productive impact in the region.

The course is divided into four theoretical/practical modules that provide the tools needed to conceptualize ideas with commercial potential, evaluate patentability criteria, and express the concept in a document that can be used as an application in patent offices.

  • Why patent?
  • Patentable Technologies: Efficient Conceptualization
  • Verifying the novelty of our concept
  • How to develop technology patents. 

Start date: April 29

End date: June 9

Duration: 4 weeks

Time investment: 24 hours

Language: Spanish

Cost: free of charge

Edition: 2nd

Certificates: at the end of the course and after having completed 75% of each mandatory activity, students will receive a certificate of participation, free of charge. If students wish to receive a completion certificate, they must complete 100% of each mandatory activity and pay 40 euros.

 

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