John Mcnett discusses the differences in making an invention independently as opposed to working for a corporation and how that relates to patent law and prior art.

In this lecture John Mcnett gives a detailed explanation on the laws of Copyright and how they apply to engineering.

This lecture covers the simplicity behind trade marks and their differences to copyrights.

John Mcnett talks about disclosure agreements and employment agreements from an intellectual property perspective and their relation to trade secrets and patents.

Patent licenses and sublicenses are are discussed in this video. Specifically the issues regarding their application as well as the difference between exclusive and non-exclusive licensees.

John Mcnett lectures on trade secrets and their similarities and differences to patents.

In this lecture John Mcnett reviews the homework and goes through specific examples of definitions, prior art, claims, and provisional applications.

This lecture reviews claims in greater detail and covers the differences in nested and non-nested models.

John Mcnett gives a lecture on drafting claims with different methods and evaluating an invention against current prior art.

John Mcnett gives a lecture on different patent types, provisional patent applications, prior art requirements, and the differences between patent law in the United States and the rest of the world.

John Mcnett gives a short introduction to the Intellectual Property for Engineering Majors course and begins to discuss patent law in greater detail.