Guest Lecturer: Darrell Kuhn
Office of Technology Commercialization
Intellectual Property (IP)
· Patents
· Copyrights
· Trademarks
· Trade Secrets
Constitutional Intent (September 17, 1787) - securing ideas
Used for: protecting important assets, licensing, secures monetary compensation for university/ company and inventors, legally protected market presence, identifies contributions to the filed by university/ company and employee inventors.
Famous inventions used on a daily basis: beta sweet-carrots, blue bonnets, 1015 onions, Metal Bender End Treatment (ET), Macu-clear, Syn Fuels International, Terrabon (turns garbage into fuel)
Patents: set of exclusive rights granted by the state to an inventor for a limited period of time (20 years), it is a contract with the government. It gives you the right to exclude others from practicing your invention.
Types: utility, design, plant variety
What question to ask: Is it worth patenting?
Patents usually cost about $30,000 ($26,000 in the prosecution phase, the rest on the post-grant phase). International can cost $100,000.
Claim: Defines the boundaries of your idea, is defendable in a court of law
What can be patented: machines, articles of manufacture, compositions of matter, etc.
Can you improve an idea made by somebody else? Yes
Non-Obviousness: red car vs. yellow car (painting cars). What is the major cause of death in fires? Smoke inhalation.
Utility: needs some practical utility
What is not patentable?
· Equations
· Data
Inventorship: if one contributed by giving an idea
Copyrights greatly differ from patents, one cannot copyright ideas, and they are only patentable. Copyrights are registered with the Library of Congress, not with the Patent Office. Copyrights usually last 50 years plus the author’s life.
Trademarks: identifies the source of the good, filling fee is $335.
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