Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize
Farewell: the NCCR MUST ended 
MUST2022 Conference
New scientific highlights
FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel
Ruth Signorell wins Doron prize
New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
New scientific highlight
EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,
Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez Castillo
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List
Hans Jakob Wörner invited to give the „New Horizons Solvay Lectures” 
Unusual keynote talk at an international scientific conference
NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021Patents: Urgent cases
In order to ease the conflict of publishing vs patenting we recommend that, if in doubt, apply for a provisional US patent application.
A provisional US patent application can be done as little as 24hrs prior to publication, or talk, and one has one year to file a patent (US or PCT(with 2.5 years of time in selected countries)). For advice on this, please contact as early as possible Ch. Harder (+41 79 219 9051 email ).
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Patents: Non urgent cases
If you want to protect your invention with a patent and time is not limited by the desire to make a publication, then you must do a search for prior patents, and carefully write your new patent. The search for prior patents can be costly, but you can get help:
- Search yourself for proir art. Patent databases are open access, e.g. search US patent database (link), European patent database (link), Swiss patent office (link) or Deutsches Patentamt (link)
- IPI Bern (8hr patent search for CHF 300.-), contact Heinz Müller (+41 31 377 73 68 , email)
- A patent application in Germany (€410) which delivers to you, in addition, a detailed research report with respect to prior art
The vastly different needs of the NCCR MUST community will be covered also on an individual basis by local seminars and by individual consulting (contact: Ch. Harder +41 79 219 9051 email).
