Intellectual property is a good skill to learn if you want to become a counselor technician, patent examiner, or patent agent. Here are the top courses to learn intellectual property:
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1. Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual property is the currency of the tech world. The pharmaceutical patent for Lipitor generated over $100 billion in revenue, the copyright for the Harry Potter franchise has generated over $25 billion to date, and the trademarked brands of the world’s largest tech companies now eclipse $100 billion in value. But what makes these intangible assets so valuable?\n\nThrough the courses in this specialization, you will learn the differences between the various forms of U.S. intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and their various applications to human innovations. Drawing from that knowledge, you will then work to develop a trademark strategy for a company, analyze a patent document, and address a copyright cease-and-desist request. After completing these hands-on projects, you will have the necessary framework to craft integrated intellectual property strategies tailored to an organization’s core business goals...
2. Intellectual Property Strategy
Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy: Creating Competitive Advantage, is a 3.5-hour course that educates Founders/Entrepreneurs on a proven, practical framework for identifying and protecting Intellectual Property While IP is critically important to Innovators and Founders working to transform into Entrepreneurs it is often not high on the Founder/Innovator agenda and can be lost in the chaos of other activities. Founders/Innovators are struggling with multiple tasks from securing customers, managing demanding lead users, generating revenue and eventually profit, satisfying investors while raising new funds, recruiting, hiring and retaining key employees, and so forth. The one critical success factor often de-emphasized in this chaotic mix is IP. Key benefits include: 1. Significant increase in valuation of business by protecting IP and creating exit opportunities. 2. Decrease in the risk to Entrepreneur/Investor investment. Once you have completed this course you can have an informed discussion with your team and IP professionals (lawyers, tech transfer office). VentureForge will shortly be releasing a follow-on course called The Intellectual Property Toolkit that outlines a framework to use in creation of a practical IP strategy. Disclaimer - Legal Information Is Not Legal Advice This course provides information related to the law and lawyers designed to help students learn about intellectual property strategy and their potential legal needs. This course does not provide legal advice and VentureForge, LLC is not a law firm. We are not lawyers and do not provide legal advice. Although we go to great lengths to make sure our information is accurate and useful, we recommend you find and consult an appropriate lawyer for your intellectual property legal needs...
3. Introduction to Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is the currency of the tech world, with the world’s most valuable intellectual property assets dwarfing the value of their real-world counterparts. Apple’ trademarked brand was valued at over $100 billion as of 2017. J.K. Rowling’s Harry potter franchise has generated over $25 billion to date. But how did the law come to create such enormous value in intangible assets? This course will introduce the various types of U.S. intellectual property: patents, which cover inventions and process innovations; copyright, which protects original works of authorship; and trademarks, which protect a business’ commercial identity as the source of valuable goods and services. You will then explore case studies of how global businesses have used intellectual property law to generate enormous value from these intangible assets...
4. Intellectual Property Law: Basics
Whether you are an independent freelancer or a small business owner working in a creative industry, or just a person willing to understand what various Intellectual Property (IP) rights are and how to protect them, then this course is for you. Whenever a graphic designer creates a logo or advertising material, an author writes a song or someone creates a new invention at home, that person has created an IP object. Therefore, after an IP object has been created relevant rights must be protected so that others do not take advantage of your work, Thus, having a basic knowledge of IP rights is crucial for anyone working in a creative industry. Important: This course should not be considered as an alternative to professional legal advice since each case is unique and circumstances vary on a case by case basis...
5. Intellectual Property Security Awareness
The Average Copyright Infringement Claim Costs $130k in Legal Fees to Defend You don't have to be a bank robber to be convicted of stealing. Robbing someone of their creative expression is a crime that can lead to million dollar fines and jail time. Welcome to the world of intellectual property, where using someone else's trademark, patent, copyright or trade secret can land you in court for counterfeiting, criminal copyright infringement and theft. In this course, you'll learn what intellectual property is, so you can share it wisely, when it's OK to use protected works without the owners permission, how to determine what's safe to share, and what's too risky, who really owns your Linkedin connections and Twitter account, why accessing someone else's social media account - even with their permission - could be a crime and much, much more. Before you or your coworkers accidentally infringe on the rights of a litigious intellectual property owner, get this action class right now and learn how to demonstrate respect for intellectual property on social media...
6. Intellectual Property in the Healthcare Industry
This course begins with an overview of general intellectual property law in the United States, then examines how the policy choices behind those laws shapes the behavior of major players in the healthcare industry. We will examine how patents and trademarks shape the behavior of pharmaceutical companies, and how complex issues involving medical research in university settings, and ownership of genetic information and material, are resolved by intellectual property laws. The course concludes with in-depth case studies of an international pharmaceutical company, a major medical device company, and a start-up in the emerging DNA-testing industry...
7. Certificate course in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
This course has been designed by experts to cover the basics of IPR and understand the way they can protect findings of research in the form of patents and further realize full value of it by technology transfer which primarily involves the steps of identifying a company's intangible assets, prioritizing them according to company's business plans, safeguarding and exploiting them. In order to benefit fully from IP in terms of revenue, reputation and market share, it is essential to have proper IP Management in place. The process of IP protection starts with identification of the same and formulating right policies and processes to ensure that IP is handled and managed effectively in the organisations. Out of all forms of IP, patent is one of the most important form of IP, primarily because you can protect your core technologies in the form of patent. Key learnings: Fundamentals of IPRAssessing a new idea, its patentability & patent filing processSignificance of technology acquisition and it's utilizationTrademarks, Copyright & Industrial designsEligibility: Candidates pursuing their degree in Science and Technology can enrol for this course. Note: This course is open for students, researchers & facultyModules: Module 1: Introduction to IPRModule 2: Relevance of IPRModule 3: Procedure and managements of patentsModule 4: Types of patent applications & claim constructionModule 5: Assessment of new idea, its patentability & patent filing procedureModule 6: IP & Technology Transfer Module 7: Minimizing patent infringement risksModule 8: All about trademarks & designsModule 9: Understanding Copyright, Plagiarism and Fair use...
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Updated December 8, 2023