This course teaches the students how to write and file their own patent application. Students can select inventions that already exist or simply start from an idea that they are interested and develop it under the instructor's guidance.

The final project of the students in this class is preparation and filing of their own invention. Differences between a technical article and a patent are identified, and the method of converting a technical article to a patent application is discussed.

The course evaluation is based on homework and projects on development of the idea and invention, patent search, preparation of drawings, preparation of specifications of the application, and drafting claims. The assessment materials are individual and can be done online or in person. There are minimum issues of plagiarism in this course since each student will have his/her own individual assignment.

This course does not intend to prepare students to become patent agents and pass a patent agency test.