Technical patent circumvention - using known technologies and patents for your own innovations

Patents are a powerful weapon to protect developed products or processes from being copied by competitors. However, very far-reaching protection agreements often block innovation and development ideas.

With the help of TRIZ tools, ways are shown to circumvent technical patents with new solutions and thus regain the "Freedom to Operate".

Existing patents remain unaffected and are replaced by alternative technical solutions. The aim is to use other or less technical components that lead to the same function without affecting the existing patent protection.

• Patent analysis and circumvention
• Process and product development
• TRIZ tools
• Innovations

What you can expect in the technical patent avoidance workshop

When developing your own products, patents from competitors can be a barrier to your own possibilities. At the same time, however, such patents can also be a source of inspiration for innovation.

In this one-day workshop, TRIZ tools are presented that can be used to find technical solutions to circumvent a patent. Various practical examples will be used to train how such processes CAN take place - because there are only a few MUSTs here (as with all creative processes).

Participants learn how a patent is structured and how it is translated into a technical functional model. The system analysis with useful and harmful functions is presented and deepened using examples. Should the problem still not be technically solvable, the trimming tool offers the opportunity to develop solutions that go beyond technical patent avoidance.

The content of the workshop is geared towards the actual needs of small and medium-sized companies. In addition to practical examples, tools are presented which you can apply directly to your everyday business.

Focus

• Overview of the basics of using third-party ideas and their further development
• Providing tools for technical patent analysis
• Providing procedures for technical patent circumvention
• Interactive discussion and lively exchange in the group

Benefits

• The workshop not only provides you with knowledge about the procedure, but also with direct approaches for transferring this knowledge into your company's practice.
• Transfer of knowledge in an interactive presentation
• Demonstration of practical examples

Target group

• Management of small and medium-sized companies
• "Fast followers
• Innovation management
• R&D management
• Employees and people from management levels in the areas of business development and strategy, marketing, sales and product managers