Tom FitzsimonsCenter for Technology Transfer

tfitzsim@ctt.upenn.edu

Center for Technology Transfer◦ Protect and commercialize faculty and staff

inventions for the public good.◦ Details are in the UPENN Patent Policy

Undergraduate student inventions are generally not covered

See: www.ctt.upenn.edu

IP is a property right

It is codified in law and/or custom

It is owned by its creators although they may have contractual obligations to give it to others

It can be bought, sold and valued. It can also be given away for FREE.

IP is something that you can do that NO ONE ELSE can do

or That no one else can easily or

conveniently “duplicate”.

Patents!!!1.a. A grant made by a government that

confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time.

b. An invention protected by such a grant.2.a. A grant made by a government that

confers on an individual fee-simple title to public lands.

3. An exclusive right or title.

Patents

Copyrights

Trademarks

Know-how

Trade Secrets

Patents

Copyrights

Trademarks

Know-how

Trade Secrets

Next year, he'll make more than twice as much as all of our past presidents for all of their terms combined.

And Jordan will only have to have this income for 270 more years to have a net worth equivalent to that of Bill Gates.

Novel

Useful

Non-obvious

Can be broad or narrow – a new idea or improvement to an old idea.

IMHO – patents rarely contain new matter; rather they take solutions from one area and apply them to another. The notable exception is some chemical patents which cover new compositions of matter.

Patents almost always build on the old state-of-the-art, generally by analogous thinking! (see TRIZ "The theory of inventor's problem solving“ as an example of an innovation system)

The mouse patent built on developments in a wide variety of fields and synthesized them into a new application.

It spawned an abundance of improvements and modifications.

Many of these had commercial value.

copyright  Date: 1735 the exclusive legal right to reproduce,

publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work)

Includes the concept of derivative works.

copyright  Date: 1735 the exclusive legal right to reproduce,

publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work)

Includes the concept of derivative works.

Date: 1838knowledge of how to do something smoothly

and efficiently 

Related to Trade Secrets

Frequently held back by scientists in publications, often unwittingly.

Center for Technology Transfer◦ Protect and commercialize faculty and staff

inventions for the public good.◦ Details are in the UPENN Patent Policy

Undergraduate student inventions are generally not covered

See: www.ctt.upenn.edu

www.ctt.upenn.edu

Penn Patent Policy

Penn Copyright Policy

tfitzsim@ctt.upenn.edu 215 573-4509.