Intellectual Property Training Academy
ipPerformance Group's ipTraining Academy focuses on intellectual property training courses for employees. Our courses have been developed over 15 years of working with large and small companies.
Our comprehensive training library of intellectual property courses covers a broad range of topics to improve your company's innovation culture and enable the workforce to fully understand how to appropriately handle company rights and respect third-party intellectual property. In addition, we work with clients to customize courses and curriculums to fit their environment.
ipTraining Academy's online training is designed to strengthen your employees' understanding of the value of intellectual property to the enterprise.
Quality Content
All training courses are written by our team of experienced intellectual property advisors and educators and are designed to provide a user-friendly, engaging experience.
Affordable Pricing
ipPerformance Training offers competitive pricing and can work within your budget and resource constraints to help implement a cost-effective intellectual property training solution that can be leveraged across the entire organization..
Engaging Content
ipPerformance Training offers visually compelling graphics and images, along with engaging, applicable, and relevant content.
Customizable
ipPerformance Training can tailor training approaches to fit every organization's needs. We can easily customize any of our more than forty intellectual property training courses to be as company- or industry-specific as you'd like.
Flexibility
All courses are widely accessible, tailored to your organization, and priced to fit any budget. An experienced support team is available if you need help.
Easy Deployment
All training can be delivered through the ipPerformance learning management system (LMS). Alternatively, we can provide industry-standard SCORM-compliant courses that can be easily deployed on your corporate LMS.
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IP Fundamentals are courses that provide an introduction to intellectual property assets, including concepts, procedures, benefits, and proper handling.
IP Extensions are courses designed for expanding your understanding of IP assets, standard operating practices, and best practices policies. This includes courses that are for audiences establishing intellectual property expert capabilities. These courses are for the people participating or leading efforts to monetize, leverage, and transact intellectual property.
IP Microlearning courses are designed for the audience with a need to learn a specific topic or task. They are also used as learning refreshers. We cover most topics in less than seven minutes.
IP Fundamentals
Business Importance of Intellectual Property
Patent Fundamentals
Trade Secret Fundamentals
Trademark Fundamentals
Copyright Fundamentals
IP Extensions
IP and Commercial Relationships: When do you need an agreement?
New Products and Freedom to Operate Procedures
Exploring Intellectual Property Assets for Research Development & Engineering
Inventor Lab Research Notebook Procedures
Patenting Process - Invention Disclosure, Review, Approval, and Patent Grant
Intellectual Property in Joint Ventures
Handling Intellectual Property in Cooperative Relationships
New Use Patents
Intellectual Property Valuation Methods
Intellectual Property Assets through Strategic Alliance Life Cycle
Intellectual Property for Marketing Advantage: An Introduction to Patent Issues in the Marketplace
Patent Intelligence, Methods, and Analysis
IP Microlearning
After the Disclosure - What happens after the invention disclosure is submitted to patent department/patent attorney
Completing an Invention Disclosure Form
Conducting Prior Art Studies
Confidential Proprietary Information
Document Creation and Handling
Factors and Considerations for Early Defensive Publication
Handling Unsolicited Ideas
Invention and Inventorship
Necessary Preparations for Completing an Invention Disclosure
Outside Cooperative Development Programs
Patent versus Trade Secret Protection
Prosecuting a Patent
Publication after Filing Patent Application
Releasing Technology to a Joint Venture
Requirements for Patentability
The Patent Department - What do they do?
Understanding Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights
Understanding the Importance of Intellectual Property in a Business’s Value Chain
Using Technology Related Agreements
Why Obtain a Patent?
Essentials for Research Development and Engineering
IP Knowledge and Value Primer
Difference between Invention and Inventorship
Intangible Assets vs. Tangible Assets
Patent Fundamentals
Patent Procurement: Invention Disclosure to Issuance
Handling External Unsolicited Ideas
Why Obtain a Patent
How to complete an Invention Disclosure
Invention reviews and criteria for patenting invention