Everything a chemist needs to know about intellectual property.(Event preview: Patents)(Brief article)

WRITING A PATENT is a fundamental way in which chemists protect their discoveries and start the process by which innovation may be converted into financial reward. However, chemists' understanding and knowledge of the process is often experiential and far from complete.

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SCI is combining the experience of patent attorneys operating in a commercial patents practice with the perspective of an industrial patent attorney to enhance chemists' knowledge of the patenting process.

The one-day meeting on 31 October is aimed at chemists from industry and academia who need to develop their understanding of the patenting process. Wherever …