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“The seminar was run very smoothly and Bastian is a very good presenter.”

Elevate Your AI Patent Drafting Skills

Learn from Bastian Best, an EPO-recognized AI patent specialist, while he shares his best insights from 17 years experience in software patent drafting.

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“I know the EU has a notoriously high bar for software inventions. Bastian knows the field inside and out and keeps up-to-date with the latest developments in CIIs, artificial intelligence, and digital business models.”
-Antonia Modkova, Soul Machines

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“My key takeaway from the masterclass is how to draft software patent claims so that infringement can be discovered. The example with the interactive display was really good. Bastian is really good at explaining complicated stuff in an understandable and practical way.”
-Gro Katarina Andorsen, Nerderiket

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“Thank you for the fantastic webinar! I really enjoyed the presentation style, especially the interactive exercises and live note-taking on the presentation sheets—it reminded me of some of the best professors from my university days. I’d highly recommend your webinar!”

Who Can Attend:

🙋‍♂️ Patent attorneys, trainees and patent engineers in law firms
🙋 Patent managers in companies and universities

What You Will Learn:

✅ How to ask inventors the right questions about an AI innovation
✅ How to draft strong AI patent claims
✅ How to draft an enabling patent description
✅ How to check the quality of an AI patent draft

Seminar Agenda:

Foundations of AI Patenting

• A Typical Software Patent Case at the EPO
  • Understanding software patenting through an example
• A Typical AI Invention
  • Case study: AI patent example
  • Identifying which parts of an AI innovation to patent

Legal Framework for AI Patents

• Patentability Requirements
  • Overview of the legal framework
  • The blacklist of non-inventions
• The Two-Hurdle Approach for Computer-Implemented Inventions (CIIs)
  • Explanation of the two-hurdle test
  • Case law
• Challenges with AI Patents
  • AI under general suspicion in the EPO guidelines
  • Two ways out (technical applications & technical implementations)
  • The whitelist of technical applications
  • Technical effects in software processes

Drafting Strong AI Patent Claims

• How to Draft Great Claims
  • What makes a great AI claim?
  • Two claim categories: Product vs. Process claims
• AI Patent Claims Best Practices
  • Ensuring infringement is detectable
  • Addressing divided infringement
  • Independent claims for different actors
  • AI patent claims checklist

Enabling Disclosure & Avoiding “Black Box AI” Pitfalls

• How to Create an Enabling Disclosure
  • Why black-box AI is not patentable
  • Case law
• Best Practices for AI Patent Disclosure
  • Key aspects to disclose
  • The “Enablement Gold Standard”
  • The “Perfect” AI Invention Disclosure

Meet Your Instructor

• Recognized as an “AI Patent Expert” and one of the “50 Leading Tech Voices” by the European Patent Office
• Renowned conference speaker and trainer on patenting AI at events by EPO, WIPO, epi, LES and VPP
• University lecturer for patenting digital innovations at ETH Zurich
• Co-chair of the Software Patents committee at I3PM
• European Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator and German Patent Attorney with a master’s degree in computer science

100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If within the first 30 minutes of the seminar you feel it isn’t meeting your expectations, simply exit and receive a full refund—no questions asked.

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“Thank you for the insightful seminar! I especially appreciated the ‘wishlist’ of key elements that an ideal AI patent should include. It provided great clarity and practical guidance.”