1.0 Introduction to Patent Overview

Welcome to our course on Protecting Business Innovations via Patents.

This course is one course on protecting business innovations and

it fits into a framework of several other courses focused on

protecting business innovations via copyright, trademark, and strategy.

So patents are one tool that we can use in our arsenal of weapons.

But it's a particularly valuable and useful tool for

many companies because patents may protect you when nothing else will.

Now patents are important to understand, and

they're important as part of this course because

they're different from many of the other tools we have for protections.

Patents take a lot of effort, they take a lot of work, and they take a lot of money.

They're also worth a lot of money.

So it is worth understanding patents and

it's worth spending time on understanding what the process is,

what's required, what it takes, and whether a patent might be helpful to you.

We'll have a number of real world examples in addition to

describing the patenting process and the content of patents.

So that you both understand what a patent can do, how you can get it and

how it might be helpful to you.

Our course overview is going to be structured as four modules for

this course.

The first is going to be the introduction and overview of patents.

What is a patent?

What do we mean by a patent?

What does it do for you?

The second module is going to look at the process of getting a patent.

We're not yet going to deal into the substance of what a patent application

contains because that's in Module 3, and we'll deal with the substance or the meat.

If you really want to understand what does it take to get a patent.

If you say, I know patents are important, I know that I want to get a patent.

I know that it's a long process and complicated, I understand that.

Just tell me, how do I get it?

Well, Module 3 really focuses on that.

What do I have to do, what do I have to show?

Module 2 says, how long is it going to take and how much is it going to cost?

What kind of challenges am I going to face along the journey of getting a patent?

So think of Module 2 as the journey to patenting.

And Module 3 is the substance of what's gotta be in that application,

what are the details?

Module 4 is the fun.

What's some advanced topics, some interesting issues,

things like patent trolls or software patents and patent bombs, or

some interesting case examples will be in Module 4.

So advanced topics, interesting examples, Module 4.

Kind of the icing on the cake, whereas Module 3 is the cake, or the substance.

Module 2 is how do you get the cake home, how do you get it to happen, and

Module 1 is what is the cake?

So that's the idea of what's a patent.

And when we think about this first module,

we're going to be looking at this introduction to patents.

And we will say what exactly is a patent?

What do we mean by that, and what does a patent protect for us?

Why do governments care?

Why do they create this?

Because this is a little bit counter-intuitive.

Governments normally like to stop monopolies, but with patents,

they're creating monopolies.

Why do it?

Some people are asking that useful question.

And it helps to understand why to understand the value of patents and

why we do encourage them in society.

What does it take to get a patent, and

where are my patents valid, if I do get one?

Where does it protect me?

That's the introduction to our first module in the patent course.

We look forward to working with you more to help you understand patents,

the process, the journey of getting a patent to substance.

And the delightful and interesting aspects of, once you've got it,

what are some of the challenges, issues, problems and examples of patents and

strategy, or patents as a tool for protecting innovation.

Look forward to seeing you in our later videos, thank you.

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