L-2002 Patent & Plant Varieties Registration Skills

The goal of this training is to build on the skills gained in L-1001 Intellectual Property Consultation Skills by developing the skills of acquisition/registration of patents and plant varieties in Egypt & abroad. The course starts with developing the search skills to ensure satisfaction of legal requirements, and to maximize the percentage of success in grant of patents or plant varieties certificate to the Client. Based on our hands-on approach, the course trains on the actual applications of the Egyptian Trademark and Industrial Design Offices, as well as the Madrid application of WIPO. The course equips trainees with the knowledge of what to expect at each stage of the registration process, and the best practices on how to deal with any issues. The trainee is provided with checklists, and forms as a part of a comprehensive system to enable trainee – on completion to register trademarks and industrial designs in Egypt and abroad.  The course concludes with training on how to develop patent and plant variety registration strategy for the Client.

Course L-1001 is a pre-requisite to this course. This course can be combined with courses L-1001, L-2002, L-2003 to obtain the Intellectual Property Specialist Certificate (Registration), upon successful completion. All courses are delivered to you through videos with Worksheets, checklists reading materials, and quizzes that you can use for years in your law practice. Courses are delivered online with bi-weekly meetings with NAL LAW ACADEMY instructors to support our trainees in their journey, and maximize the benefit they obtain from our training.

Courses are designed and delivered by Professor Nermien Al-Ali, former professor of Intellectual Property Management at University of New Hampshire, USA and current head of NAL LAW GROUP. She was recognized as the Best IP Lawyer by Legal 500 in 2015. 

Main Features

• Distinguish between product, process and pharmaceutical patents,
• Examine registration and search systems in Egypt and worldwide for patents,
• Develop skills of applying to patent an invention in Egypt and learn the process,
• Apply search skills, perform a prior art search and how to satisfy the inventive step condition,
• Develop skills of using the International Registration System and distinguish between international and domestic phases (the PCT System).
• Examine process of plant varieties search & registration in Egypt,
• Develop skills of registering plant varieties in Egypt & abroad and using UPOV resources.

University education is the basis to the practice of law, but it does not develop legal practical skills that a lawyer needs to practice. In addition, law faculties in Egypt focus on the general fields of law (such as civil and criminal law) and rarely expose learners to new or specialized legal fields like intellectual property. This creates the need for practical training that develops legal skills and pass on to the trainees the experience of the specialists in the field. 

Our L-Series Courses and Certificates are designed for: 

• Fresh law graduates interested in the field of intellectual property, 
• Practicing lawyers wishing to work in the filed of intellectual property,  
•  Law professors, and other legal practitioners.