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Understanding Patents: A Deeper Dive

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Overview

Get a quick primer on patents for a non-legal audience.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Understanding Patents
  • Overview of patents
  • Grace period
2. What Things Are Patentable?
  • What is patentable?
  • Utility patents
  • Design patents
  • Patentable and nonpatentable ideas
3. Obtaining a Patent
  • Obtaining a patent
  • Patent claims
  • Overview of the process
4. Infringement
  • What is infringement?
  • How to search for existing patents
  • Ropeless jump rope
  • How to avoid infringing a patent
  • To search or not to search
5. FAQs
  • Most common questions, part 1
  • Most common questions, part 2
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Dana Robinson

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