IP Essentials for Research, Development, and Engineering
The IP Essentials for Research Development and Engineering training curriculum is geared toward your technical personnel. It reinforces company intellectual property concepts, practices, processes, and essential technology-related intellectual asset topics to ensure that technology employees will recognize and respond appropriately to circumstances that arise during their work. In addition to intellectual property principles, the technology-related topics discussed include inventorship, writing an invention disclosure, obtaining a patent, open source, safeguarding proprietary information, conducting freedom to operate searches, and handling unsolicited ideas.
Key Learning Points
- What is intellectual property (IP) and types of IP
- What are patents – design and utility patents
- Inventorship – difference between invention and inventorship
- What are the basic requirements of patentability
- How do patents benefit your company – make money for your company
- Patenting process – process flow – invention submission, review, patent preparation and prosecution
- How to write an invention disclosure and submit your ideas
- Evaluation criteria for invention submissions: relevance, ease of design around, detectability, and value
- Handling unsolicited ideas
- Invention Rewards – Incentives and benefits to employees
- Interacting with third parties – handling proprietary information
- Publication after filing a patent application
- Understanding freedom to operate vs. product clearance
- Search concepts – novelty vs. freedom to operate
- Open source software
Intellectual Property Knowledge and Value Primer
Intellectual Property Knowledge and Value Primer is a 20-minute training course designed to give technology personnel a basic understanding of intellectual property, how it is protected, why these assets are essential to this business, and what is expected of all personnel.
The Intellectual Property Knowledge and Value Primer course aim is to clarify the different types of intellectual property/intangible assets the corporation creates so that all employees will understand the importance of handling and protecting them.
Intangible Assets vs. Tangible Assets
The Intangible Assets vs. Tangible Assets 10-minute course teaches students the difference between intangible and tangible assets. It shows how business value trends have affected intangible assets. The Intangible Assets vs. Tangible Assets course aims for employees to understand the significant value intangible assets represent to the business.
Invention and Inventorship
Invention and inventorship are essential to innovation and patent procurement. While you may participate in the invention process, you are not necessarily considered an inventor by law. This Invention and inventorship 10-minute course aims for students to understand the invention stages and the legal inventorship requirements that stipulate who can be identified as an inventor of patentable subject matter.
