The project “Inventions at Universites” was carried out by the IP-Research Centre in the period from September 1999 to June 2000. It was initiated by North Rhine-Westphalia’s Ministry of Science in the political context of supporting patent applications and liquidation of research findings. The activities bound to that start with education of basic patent law at universities and end up with assistance and advice of university researchers within the SAFE-program.
Within the scope of the project legal reforms were evaluated, informative literature for practical purposes was created (see here) and workshops were organized.