A joint offering by the College of Engineering and the School of Business
Introduction to Intellectual Property and Patent Protection
Topics
- Introduction and course motivations
- Overview of the different kinds of intellectual property
- Utility patents, design patents
- Copyright, trade secrets
- Selecting intellectual property protection
- Other kinds of iIntellectual property
- Ownership
- Registration and labeling
- Acquiring interests in intellectual property
- Documenting inventive work
- Disclosure statements
- The race for a filing date
- Reviewing an application
- Searching for and disclosing prior art (includes a computer search training component)
- Current topics (open discussion for those further interested)
Audience
This course addresses the needs of those in industry who do not have an intellectual property legal background, including:
- Scientists
- Product development team leaders and managers
- Research team leaders and managers
- Paralegals, in-house counsel and others
- Plant managers and personnel
- Others interested in safeguarding intellectual property and other technology
Benefits
The purpose of this intensive course is to help you understand the kinds of intellectual property protection available, the legal process(es) undertaken to obtain protection, and the jargon and concepts used in communicating about intellectual property. The course will also show you how to:
- Easily and effectively communicate technology developments to management and legal counsel so that you can achieve optimal protection
- Understand and better review the work product of legal advisors
- Safeguard ownership of internally developed and acquired technology
The instructor is a registered patent attorney. This course is approved by the National Association of Legal Assistants and the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners; by attending it you may earn CEUs, LUs or PDHs
By participating in this course, you will earn 2.2 Continuing Education Units (CEU), 22 AIA Learning Units (LU) and 22 Professional Development Hours (PDH).