20.04.2021

Virtual Coffee Lectures – Infos at home: Using the knowledge from patents

World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April 2021 highlights the importance of intellectual property rights in promoting innovation and creativity.

Did you know that 80% of technical knowledge is only published in patents? Patent databases worldwide contain more than 120 million patent documents from all areas of technology.

Use this knowledge also in times of the Corona pandemic by targeted searches in patent databases for your topic!

The PATON at the TU Ilmenau offers you virtual support for your own searches inform yourself in about 15 minutes during a virtual Coffee Lecture on 26 April 2021 at 5:00 pm.

PATON supports you also in the Summer Semester 2021

The patent database PATBASE can be used for virtual self-searches via the PATON search room. We offer an introduction to patent database searches, in particular to the PATBASE database, on the following dates:

12.05.2021 13:00-14:30 (WEBEX )

09.07.2021 13:00-14:30 (WEBEX)

Registration at: paton.akademie@tu-ilmenau.de

If you are interested in searching trademark, design or business databases, please register at paton.search@tu-ilmenau.de.

The staff of the search roomof PATON currently deal with all user enquiries by telephone on 03677-694511 or by appointment also virtually.

This includes general enquiries about IP rights, such as patents, designs or trade marks, as well as telephone or virtual support for users' own searches. As soon as it is possible again to provide individual assistance on site and by appointment, we will inform you on the website.

Also the initial consultations for inventors by Thuringian patent attorneys currently do not take place on site in Ilmenau, but by telephone. Appointments can be made by calling 03677-694511. On the website you will find the next possible dates.

For order research on the state of the art or novelty, the PATON staff can be contacted at paton.search@tu-ilmenau.de.

We are very pleased that we have been able to experience over the past few months that your creativity and inventiveness lead to new ideas and thus to new property rights, even in these difficult times.