Innovation has become synonymous of competitiveness, however, the increasing importance for Industrial Property (IP) Rights, and more specific for Patent-information, is often disregarded in
academic Biomedical Technology and Medical Informatics research.
The "ossified" knowledge and other technical information available in IP-documents are still underestimated in Academia, due to a lack of awareness and understanding of their function and advantages.
IP-laws are concerned with the legal regulation of mental products, and they facilitate the cooperation of Industry and Academia, however, there is almost no training provided for Medicine,
Engineering and Science graduate students.
Having a very positive experience in offering courses on IP-Rights, for graduate students in our Department, since 2003, a Tutorial is proposed, aiming the acquaintance of mainly young professionals,
with the basics of IP-Rights, focused on BME.
The Tutorial will address relevant aspects of IP such as, the origin and the historical development of IP-protection, Trade-Secrets, Trademark, Publicity-Rights and Moral-Rights, Copyright,
Patent International Protection, Licensing, Royalties, etc. Another goal is focusing on equipment and software classification, information retrieval out of patent documents and their use in
research projects, by the employment of the Esp@cenet, the specialized Internet based search-engine of the European Patent Office and other similar services.
The prediction potential of IP-Documents concerning the development course of emerging technologies, is another important advantage that will be examined.
This is obtained by evaluating relevant IP-Documents and combining premature hints, often embedded in patent applications, and aiming to extend the claimed legal and technical protection.
The determination of collective technological and capital-investment trends in a technical field, by "mapping" related IP-documents, is a further ability of IP. Finally, a
last "hidden-capacity"of IP-Document evaluation, is the identification of Ethical and Legal aspects of emerging technologies, out of properly selected and assessed relevant documents.
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Vasileios (Basile) P. Spyropoulos, born in Thessalonica, Greece on August 5th, 1953, received a B.Sc. Degree in Physics, from the University of Athens, Greece in 1976, and a Ph.D. Degree in Medical Physics from the Universities of Heidelberg and Saarland, Germany, in 1982.
He held positions in the ISR-Division of CERN, Switzerland, in the Radiology and Clinical Chemistry Institutes of the Medical School of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, he was Head of the Biomedical Engineering Department of the Public Enterprise for Hospital Construction, Athens, Greece, and he served as Patent Examiner, in the European Patent Office, Munich, Germany.
Since 1987, he is full Professor of Biomedical Technology, in the Biomedical Engineering Department, of the Technological Education Institute (TEI) of Athens, Greece and he served or still serves as Visiting Professor in the National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece, University of Patras Medical School, Greece, National School of Public Administration, Athens, Greece, Greek Army Medical Corps Applications' School, Athens, Greece, University of Athens Department of Informatics, Greece, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Germany, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, National Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics Institute (NIKHEF), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, University of Crete, Greece, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA.
He leads the Biomedical Technology Laboratory of TEI of Athens, encompassing activities related to Health-Care Information Technology, Biomedical Technology and Hospital Management, Medical Decision Supporting Systems, and Radiological Protection Methods and Policies. Over 340 contributions in Scientific Journals and Conferences and 9 Volumes of Lecture-Notes.
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