Useful information
Useful links
Organisations and offices dealing with intellectual property
- Slovenian Intellectual Property Office
- European Patent Organisation
- EPO Academy
- European Union Intellectual Property Office
- EUIPO Academy
- World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO
- WIPO Academy
- IPR Helpdesk
Searching in patent databases
Before starting your research or before disclosing your invention and preparing a patent application at the latest, we recommend you check the state of the art in publicly accessible patent databases/registers.
Information databases/patent registers
- ESPACENET (an EPO database with links to national, European and international patent applications/patents)
- PATENTSCOPE (a WIPO database containing international patent applications or patents with links to related national and regional patent applications; provides access to patent documentation in PCT procedures)
- EP REGISTER (a database containing European patent applications and patents; provides access to all patent documentation)
- SIPO-DS (a database containing Slovenian patent applications/patents; provides access to published patent applications and translations of requests relating to validated European patents)
- Google Patents (U.S. patent applications with links to related PCTs, EPs and national patents)
- Patent Lens (a database containing patent applications; enables searching through patent families, nucleotide/amino acid sequences, inventors, authors quoted in patents (LifeScience))
Patent classifications
- International Patent Classification – IPC
- Cooperative Patent Classification – CPC
- Categorization Assistant in the International Patent Classification – IPCCAT
- Classification Search (via Espacenet)
Patent machine translation tool
- Patent Translate (EPO and Google) – via hits in Espacenet database
- WIPO translate – via Patentscope database
Educational materials
Conference Od Ideje do trga <programska oprema> (Bringing software to the market), 6-7 november 2019
Video lectures:
Business models and channels to market,
lecturer: Gavin Smith, PhD
Software specific IP issues,
lecturer: Jakob Valvoda, PhD
Software valuation and licencing,
lecturer: Gavin Smith, PhD
Presentations from the conference:
- Software specific IP issues, dr. Jakob Valvoda,
- Increase your revenue by utilizing new technologies, Boris Ferš,
- Business models and channels to market, dr. Gavin Smith,
- SW commercialization & Technology Transfer: the case of Politecnico di Torino, dr. Shiva Loccisano,
- Software from University research – valuation & licensing, dr. Gavin Smith,
- Patenting in IBM, Peter Geršak,
- Software commercialization and Technology Transfer, Shiva Loccisano,
Conference Od ideje do trga, 7-8 november 2017
Presentations from the conference:
- Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights – Jakob Valvoda, PhD
- Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights – Exercise Session – Jakob Valvoda, PhD
- Developing an IP strategy: recognize, protect and exploit your ideas – Jakob Valvoda, PhD
- How to protect my IPR? – Jakob Valvoda, PhD
- The European Patent Office Facts and Figures – Dominique Winne, PhD
- The European patent system- Dominique Winne, PhD
- Patent application strategy- Dominique Winne, PhD
- Exercise session- Dominique Winne, PhD
- IP case study – Dominique Winne, PhD
- Searching for patents- Dominique Winne, PhD
- Searching for patents Exercise session- Dominique Winne, PhD
- Commercialising Research Results – Tom Hockaday
- Acies Bio presentation