Hello All,
A few weeks ago I posted a request for articles or chapters about intellectual property protection and? patents that would be suitable for an MBA course on Innovation or Entrepreneurship. I received several helpful replies - thanks to all those who contributed. The following is a very brief review of the resources I found.
Chapter 7 in "Taking Research to Market: How to Build and Invest in Successful University Spinouts" (http://www.euromoneybooks.com/product.asp?PositionID=cart&ProductID=3599) by Renee Rottner, UC Irvine
This chapter was detailed and practical in explaining IP protection and included several worksheets for working through the patent protection process. Very well written and easy to read.
Constance Bagley and Craig Dauchy, "Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law". Includes sections on patents, patent process and IP protection overall. The IP topics in this resource were recommended a few times, as was Dorf & Byers "Technology Ventures" text.
Bronwyn Hall's website at UC-Berkeley (research papers and summaries): http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~bhhall/
Bronwyn Hall is a prolific author on patents and global IP protection and her website has several links to articles and course outlines for Innovation courses, as well as interesting links to patent and IP data. Overall, a useful starting point for detailed teaching and research backgound on the subject.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) website. This website initially looked very promising because it has links to information on IP and patent protection systems from many different countries, but the resources were rather fragmented and it was difficult to find primer articles that could be used in a classroom. This website seemed to be oriented more toward providing access to WIPO reports on various topics. http://www.wipo.int/portal/en/resources_students.html
The http://iusmentis.com/ website by Arnoud Engelfriet was another useful source of information and articles on IP, patents and the patent process and includes commentary on differences between different national patent systems. Very well written. I took several of the individual webpages on topics like 'Legal protection of trade secrets and know how' and distributed them to my MBA students as mini-articles. Arnoud Engelfried had no trouble giving his permission for his material to be used this way and my MBA students liked the level of detail in the articles. For those teaching this topic, the page explaining the 'Donald Duck as Prior Art' case in patent protection is worth the trip to the website.
Thank you again to all who sent in their suggestions!
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Chris Street, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Entrepreneurship)
Hill School of Business
Regina, Canada
chris.street@uregina.ca
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