Course overview
Strong claim drafting is the cornerstone of effective patent protection. In European practice, understanding both the fundamentals and the subtleties of claim drafting is essential to secure adequate protection, defend validity and prove infringement - particularly in multi-jurisdictional litigation.
This intensive two-day training course will sharpen your drafting skills and equip you with the techniques needed to meet official requirements while achieving commercially meaningful protection. Through a detailed exploration of novelty, inventive step, clarity, claim scope, description, amendments and interpretation, you will gain practical insights into what makes a robust and defensible patent claim.
Day one delivers a comprehensive foundation in claim drafting, focusing on the principles, dos and don’ts, and the legal framework shaping European practice. Day two offers a choice of interactive mechanical or chemical workshops, where you will apply what you’ve learned in realistic drafting scenarios. These hands-on sessions provide a safe environment to practise, refine and troubleshoot your approach under expert guidance.
With a strong emphasis on practical application, this training course ensures you leave with the knowledge and confidence to draft, amend and defend patent claims effectively across jurisdictions.
During this thorough and well-structured training programme, the expert trainers use a mix of theory, examples, exercises and workshops to cover the fundamentals and advanced drafting issues and help embed the learning. Plus, ample time is built in for discussion, enabling you to address your specific challenges and benefit from the trainers’ expertise.
** This training course combines a full day of claim drafting fundamentals with a further day of focused workshops. Attendees have the choice to attend either a mechanical or chemical workshop on day two.
PLEASE NOTE:
Attendees will benefit from bringing a copy of the European Patent Convention with them.
CPD Hours: 12
Course Content
- Day 1
- Know the invention
- Claim drafting fundamentals
- The importance of a good description
- Amendments
- Claim interpretation
- International considerations
- Day 2
- Chemical workshop - Introduction
- Chemical workshop - Further considerations for chemical drafting
- Chemical workshop - Claim drafting exercise
- Mechanical workshop - Preparation phase
- Mechanical workshop - Claim sketching
- Mechanical workshop - Claim drafting
- Mechanical workshop - Dependent claims
- Mechanical workshop - Drafting the description
- Mechanical workshop - Exercises
Speakers
Leythem Wall
Leythem Wall is a European and UK patent attorney and litigator specialising in the chemical, consumer products, energy, material, mechanical, medical and pharmaceutical sectors. Prior to founding Oxon IP, he was a Partner in major European and US Intellectual Property law firms, and before then in-house patent counsel for ExxonMobil and AkzoNobel. He has extensive experience in patent drafting, prosecution and particularly oppositions before the European Patent Office. Having worked in private practice and industry for European and US companies, he has significant knowledge of the US patent system, and how this compares with Europe.
Joeri Beetz
Joeri Beetz, Patent Attorney, Keltie LLP, specialises in patents in the fields of mechanical engineering, physics and control software. Amongst all the different technologies he has been extensively involved in are optical recording, medical devices, agricultural equipment, lighting, displays and automotive. He regularly represents clients in opposition procedures at the EPO, both to defend and to attack patents.
Joeri spent nine years in a Dutch patent firm based in Eindhoven, after five years of working at the in-house patent department of CNH Industrial. He joined Keltie in 2017. During his in-house period he managed a large patent portfolio for a broad range of different combine harvesters. At CNH Industrial, he built an extensive expertise in freedom to operate and patent infringement analysis and gained a keen insight in the commercial implications of different IP strategies.
In 2002, Joeri obtained his masters degree in physics at the University of Utrecht. In his final year at University, he built and tested equipment for testing particle detectors for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
