IP Generation and Management: an Inventor's View
ECE59500
Credit Hours:
3Learning Objective:
- Explain to non-experts the differences between various Intellectual Property categories and terminologies including Patents, Trademarks, Service Marks, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, and Know-Hows.
- Secure management approvals for filing your inventions with the United States Patents and Trademark office (USPTO), develop responses to overcome patent examiner's objections, and finally successfully securing Intellectual Property.
- Explain attributes and application landscape of Intellectual Property Life Cycle for internal offerings, licensing In-and Out opportunities, infringements, and associated risks and rewards.
- Discuss strategic pathways to execute Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDAs), and Joint Development Agreements (JDAs) as these relate to work for hire and collaborative research and development.
- Apply knowledge of critical enablers and barriers to successfully secure intellectual property in your own area of interest at workplace.
Description:
This course will provide students with a comprehensive overview of the generation and management of intellectual property. Lectures will include these topics: What is Intellectual Property - Basics What is a Patent?, How a Patent is Structured and its Associated Contents, Wallpaper vs. Masterpiece, Documenting Your Idea in and Invention Disclosure, What is a Trademark?, What is Copyright?, Contracts and IP Leveraging IP to Achieve Business Objectives, IP Value Creation Process, Risks and Counter Measures, IP Infringement, Joint Development Agreement Addressing Inventorship Issues During Collaborations, Enforcing Your Patents for Fun and Profit...The Business Case, Role in Innovation for IP Generation, Developing Enablers for IP Generation & Commercialization, Developing Enablers While Addressing Barriers for IP Generation Enablers, Barriers and Mitigation Strategies for Industry/University Collaborative Research, University/Industry Interaction Model: Nanocollaborative Example, and Addressing Partner Data Security Team Empowerment Leading to IP Generation and Commercialization.
This course is intended for engineering graduate students and upper-level engineering undergraduates.
Will have guest lecturers periodically throughout the course from industry leadership (e.g. IBM, Raytheon, ANSYS, Ericsson, Dow Corning, Wacker Silicones, Corning, --) on their IP generation and management processes. We will provide a WebEx link for the live sessions. We will record these sessions and then upload with captions in Brightspace. This is so the students can watch or refer back to at a later time.
Topics Covered:
Module Title | Topics |
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Lecture 1 What is Intellectual Property - Basics |
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Lecture 2 Module 1-5 What is a Patent? |
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Lecture 3 How a Patent is Structured and its Associated Contents |
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Lecture 4 Wallpaper vs. Masterpiece |
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Lecture 5 Documenting Your Idea in an Invention Disclosure |
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Lecture 6 What is a Trademark? |
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Lecture 7 What is a Copyright? |
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Lecture 8 Module 1-3 Contracts and IP |
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Lecture 9 Module 4-5 Contracts and IP (continued) |
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Lecture 10 Module 1-2 Leveraging IP to Achieve Business Objectives |
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Lecture 11 IP Value Creation Process, Risks and Counter Measures |
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Lecture 12 Module 1-4 IP Infringement |
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Lecture 13 Module 5-7 |
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Lecture 14 Modules 1-3 Joint Development Agreement |
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Lecture 15 Addressing Inventorship Issues During Collaborations |
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Lecture 16 Enforcing Your Patents for Fun and Profit...The Business Case |
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Lecture 17 Role in Innovation for IP Generation |
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Lecture 18 Developing Enablers for IP Generation & Commercialization |
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Lecture 19 Developing Enablers Wile Addressing Barriers for IP Generation |
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Lecture 20 Enablers, Barriers and Mitigation Strategies for Industry/University Collaborative Research |
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Lecture 21 University Industry Interaction Model: Nanocollaborative Example |
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Lecture 22 Addressing Partner Data Security |
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Lecture 23 Modules 1-2 Team Empowerment Leading to IP Generation and Commercialization |
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Prerequisites:
Have at least 2 years of undergraduate work.
Applied / Theory:
10/90
Web Address:
https://purdue.brightspace.com
Homework:
7-10 assignments with 1 group assignment
Exams:
3 Exams, no proctoring
Textbooks:
None. PDFs will be provided to the students to accompany each lecture.