COURSE PRESENTATION
The POLIMI European Patent Litigation Certificate is a course accredited by the UPC Administrative Committee (Decision D-AC/07/19072024_E 19 July 2024 of the Administrative Committee), aimed at qualifying participants, after a final exam, as UPC representatives, according to Art. 48.2 of the UPC Agreement and R. 286.2 of the Rules of Procedure.
The 2027 edition will take place from 10 November 2026 to 29 April 2027.
PATENT LITIGATION CERTIFICATE
The course will provide, those who will successfully pass the exam, with a European Patent Litigation Certificate, which is an appropriate qualification according to Art. 48.2 of the UPC Agreement. According to R. 286.2 of the UPC Rules of Procedure a European Patent Attorney wishing to represent parties before the Unified Patent Court and be inserted in the list of UPC representatives, under Article 48(3) of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, shall lodge the Certificate at the UPC Registry.
TRAINING FORMAT & DISTANCE LEARNING
The course comprises 120 hours, divided into three-hour modules each, with classes once a week in the morning and in the afternoon, for a total of 20 days, of which 17 of theoretical lessons and 3 of practical training.
Lessons will be held in English. Lecturers have been selected for their competence and their teaching skills.
The course will be held online, using Microsoft Teams and it will end with three on campus days of practical training for which the participation in presence is mandatory.
All participants will have access to video-recordings of lectures, the presentations and teaching materials of the course, which will be downloadable from the website with a personal password.
AI summaries of the lectures will be provided to the participants to help them in the learning process.
EXAM
The final exam will be organized the day after the end of the practical training, and it will comprise three parts:
Part a) Written – 30 multiple choice questions,
Part b) Written – a legal case to be solved
Part c) An oral exam starting with the discussion of the legal case.
LOCATION
The three on campus days of practical training will be held at the headquarters of the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Milano in via Lambruschini 4 , 20156 Milano – Bovisa, Italy, which can be easily reached by the underground railway (stops Bovisa or Villapizzone).
The Department of Energy non-institutional training activities and special projects for university teaching comply with the UNI EN ISO 9001-2015 standard.