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Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2008

This course examines the role of the engineer as patent expert and as technical witness in court and patent interference and related proceedings. It discusses the rights and obligations of engineers in connection with educational institutions, government, and large and small businesses. It compares various manners of transplanting inventions into business operations, including development of New England and other U.S. electronics and biotechnology industries and their different types of institutions. The course also considers American systems of incentive to creativity apart from the patent laws in the atomic energy and space fields. Acknowledgment -------------- The instructors would like to thank Joanne Rines and Elijah Ercolino for their efforts in preparing this course.

Readings

  • Rines, Robert H. Create or Perish: The Case for Inventions and Patents . Boston, MA: Preliminary Edition, 1964.
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  • Within this course, the text will be referred to as Create or Perish . Additional reading material, including references to recent court decisions, may be specified to supplement the text in areas that the instructors deem appropriate. Reading and comprehending the material is extremely important in the student’s performance in this class, and therefore the student is strongly encouraged to acquire and reach the point of personal understanding and synthesis for all material specified in this course.
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