2025-08-29 2025-08-29 , online online, 1,280 € zzgl. MwSt. Donal O'Connell https://www.forum-institut.de/seminar/25121136-invention-management-in-practice-processes-pitfalls-and-tools/referenten/25/25_12/25121136-seminar-invention-management-in-practice_oconnell-donal.jpg Invention Management in Practice: Processes, Pitfalls and Tools

This seminar provides you with a comprehensive, practice-oriented overview of how to build and operate an effective invention management framework within your organisation

The Contents of the Online Course
  • Creating and nurturing an inventor community
  • Building an environment that encourages inventiveness and continuous idea generation
  • Invention harvesting in practice: approaches, channels and case studies
  • Practical strategies for efficient invention capture with real-world examples
  • Analysing the inventive idea: legal, technical and strategic perspectives
  • Structured review and decision-making processes from idea to patent or trade secret


Who should attend
This seminar is designed for IP professionals, R&D managers, innovation officers and anyone involved in setting up or managing invention disclosure and evaluation processes.
The Objectives of the Online Course
This seminar provides you with a comprehensive, practice-oriented overview of how to build and operate an effective invention management framework within your organisation.

You will learn how to engage inventors, foster a culture of creativity, and implement structured processes to identify, capture and evaluate inventions efficiently. Through a mix of expert input and real-world case studies, you will gain insight into each phase of the invention lifecycle-from community building and idea harvesting to analysis and decision-making.

At the end of the training, you will understand what makes invention processes succeed or fail and will be equipped with hands-on tools to improve invention management in your company or institution.
Your benefit

You will benefit from concrete strategies, tried-and-tested tools, and real-world case studies from successful invention frameworks. You'll learn how to:

  • Set up inventor engagement programmes that encourage consistent contributions
  • Build an environment that stimulates and supports inventiveness
  • Create practical workflows for capturing and evaluating invention disclosures
  • Avoid common mistakes and roadblocks in the decision-making process
  • Implement effective interfaces between inventors, IP professionals and management
The seminar will provide templates, process examples and benchmarks that you can adapt to your organisational context.

25121136 Seminar - Invention Management in Practice

Invention Management in Practice: Processes, Pitfalls and Tools

Benefits
  • Excellent speaker
  • Benchmark your own system
  • with templates, process examples and benchmarks

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Termin

02/12/2025

02/12/2025

Zeitraum

09:00 to 17:00 CET

09:00 to 17:00 CET
Veranstaltungsort

online

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Jean-Claude Alexandre Ho, LL.M.
Lawyer, Conference Manager

+49 6221 500-675
jc.alexandreho@forum-institut.de

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This seminar provides you with a comprehensive, practice-oriented overview of how to build and operate an effective invention management framework within your organisation

The Contents of the Online Course

  • Creating and nurturing an inventor community
  • Building an environment that encourages inventiveness and continuous idea generation
  • Invention harvesting in practice: approaches, channels and case studies
  • Practical strategies for efficient invention capture with real-world examples
  • Analysing the inventive idea: legal, technical and strategic perspectives
  • Structured review and decision-making processes from idea to patent or trade secret


Who should attend
This seminar is designed for IP professionals, R&D managers, innovation officers and anyone involved in setting up or managing invention disclosure and evaluation processes.

The Objectives of the Online Course

This seminar provides you with a comprehensive, practice-oriented overview of how to build and operate an effective invention management framework within your organisation.

You will learn how to engage inventors, foster a culture of creativity, and implement structured processes to identify, capture and evaluate inventions efficiently. Through a mix of expert input and real-world case studies, you will gain insight into each phase of the invention lifecycle-from community building and idea harvesting to analysis and decision-making.

At the end of the training, you will understand what makes invention processes succeed or fail and will be equipped with hands-on tools to improve invention management in your company or institution.

Your benefit

You will benefit from concrete strategies, tried-and-tested tools, and real-world case studies from successful invention frameworks. You'll learn how to:

  • Set up inventor engagement programmes that encourage consistent contributions
  • Build an environment that stimulates and supports inventiveness
  • Create practical workflows for capturing and evaluating invention disclosures
  • Avoid common mistakes and roadblocks in the decision-making process
  • Implement effective interfaces between inventors, IP professionals and management
The seminar will provide templates, process examples and benchmarks that you can adapt to your organisational context.

Detailed programme

09:00 to 17:00 CET

Setting up an Invention Handling Framework in Six Steps

Building an Inventor Community
  • Who are your inventors?
  • Motivating and engaging inventors in structured processes
  • Integrating invention management into R&D culture

Creating an Environment that Encourages Inventiveness
  • Organisational and leadership factors
  • Balancing openness and focus
  • Incentives and feedback loops
  • The 7 "Cs": challenges, culture, competencies, collaboration, competitive spirit, convergence, changes

Invention Harvesting - With Case Study
  • Channels and methods to surface ideas
  • Pull vs push approaches / proactive vs reactive approaches
  • Pull techniques: Surpassing the Competitor, Kipling's Six Honest Men method, Scamper and more
  • Case study: structured harvesting in a corporate setting

Invention Capture - With Case Study
  • Designing efficient disclosure workflows
  • From informal idea to formal disclosure
  • Tools and forms
  • Case study: digital capture systems in action

Analysis of the Inventive Idea - With Case Study
  • Legal criteria: ownership, novelty, patentability
  • Business criteria: alignment, funding, value, risks
  • Case study: cross-functional evaluation teams

Review and Decision-Making
  • Structuring review boards and meetings
  • Decision criteria: easy to design around, licensing opportunity, ROI and more
  • Feedback to inventors

Interactive Session: Designing Your Own Invention Framework
  • Guided workshop with templates
  • Sharing results in small groups

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Timetable



09:00 CET Start of the course
10:15 CET Break
12:30 CET Lunch break
15:30 CET Break
17:00 CET End of the course

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  • ‘Deluxe’ chat: group chats, one-to-one chats, one-to-one video chats
  • A central repository for documents and media
  • Other services and apps such as Padlet and Mentimeter available directly on the platform
  • The perfect marriage of teaching methods and technology
  • High level of interactivity with plenty of opportunity for questions
  • Continuous support throughout the event to ensure the most effective learning
  • Free technical pre-meeting to start off your training on the right foot

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