Greetings everyone, I got sick for a while during the weekends (and being lazy too) -.- Anyway, I am going to share some quick thoughts on this patent engineering course. First, I am absolutely curious how far we will go into the tech side of patent engineering. I mean, there is a engineering specialized path as referred as the patent engineer, so theoretically the class can become pretty technical. The main goal of this course, I believe, is to get some introductory insight to the technical aspect of patent prosecution. I agree that the rapid evolving wireless/mobile industry is the right topic to study patent engineering. There are lots to cover, from the IC design up to the UI design would be very interesting topics to discuss about patents.
As for my personal goal in this course, I hope I can know about patentability of inventions/designs. To my understanding, patents are applicable to the new designs/inventions if and only if there are engineering applications. Obviously there are many cases that inventions have been put into categories of either "physics/science" (physically), or "protocol" (virtually). So there is why patents are very special to engineers, since it is a unique system that most engineers would be dealing with.
In fact, my main motivation to take the IEOR 190G is to understand how to incorporate engineering patents into research/product designs. I can imagine the following situation:
Two ambitious intern engineers in the middle of night...
Intern Engineer A: "B, we stuck here for 3 hours. I can't think of anything to solve this."
Intern Engineer B, get so used to the college style of solving problems, said, "Let's google it!"
Well, all they find are patents of competitor companies...
Intern Engineer A&B: "%*&^#@!"
So hopefully I can learn some technique how use patents in engineering application too, like avoiding infringement of a competitor’s patent, or using your own patents as business assets to negotiate with other patent holders. Well, that's about it :)
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