Tackling the future - Smart Mobility

Our dynamic world is constantly faced with challenges, such as changes in consumer trends and behaviour, with remarkable investments being made in research and innovation to meet these needs.

A recent development in our interconnected world is cross-field inventions, which combine technologies from several different technological fields. This provides new challenges in finding the best way to protect such inventions with regard to several aspects in the patent granting process.

This lecture series is aimed at patent professionals seeking to gain a deeper insight into the new challenges faced when patenting cross-field inventions. Selected technological fields are chosen to illustrate this new evolution. Find out more by joining EPO experts and IP experts in novel cross-field technologies.

Computer control is present in technologies related to mobility already for a long time. The use of artificial intelligence, the development of the autonomous vehicle and new ways of doing business are however changing inventions and patent applications in technical fields traditionally related to mechanics and mechatronics. We will have a look at these changes and the challenges met by patent applicants and examiners during the patent granting process.

A Q&A session will round up the lecture.