Patent Research & Strategy

3 units

This practical course introduces students to methods on conducting and evaluating patent research involving a variety of technical areas, and analyzing the results from a legal and market competition perspective. Students will be exposed to advanced patent research techniques and trained on several leading patent research platforms in order to evaluate and critically analyze the quality of patent research results. Students will be tasked to understand and perform exercises such as patentability assessment, freedom to operate analysis, and invalidity examinations. Other topics will include patent landscape analysis, portfolio assessment, patent valuation and competitive intelligence insights from patent data. The course will also include Guest Lecturers to provide perspectives on the strategy use of patent information. Assessments will include assignments and two examinations: midterm and final. There is no prerequisite for this class and is open to JD / LLM and other qualified students University wide.