Welcome to "Introduction to Industrial Property: patents, designs, trademarks - PATENTS101”!

We are really excited to have you here in the course! Over the next four weeks, you’ll have the chance to discover the basics about Industrial Property, comprising patents, designs and trademarks and about how inventions can be protected!


If you are a Politecnico di Milano student, researcher or teacher and you are interested in knowing how to transfer your research results outside the University, don't forget to have a look at the last course part, presented by the  Technological Transfer Office (TTO).

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