Session 1

• Introduction
• Intellectual Property Basics, Terminology and Key Concepts
• Various Types of Intellectual Property and Their Differences
• Trade Secret vs. Patent Protection
• Applying for Intellectual Property Protection

Session 2

• Types of Patents
• Patentable Subject Matter
• Inventorship, Conception and Reduction to Practice
• Laboratory Notebooks
• Agreements (Employment, Secrecy, Consulting)
• Invention Disclosure
• Evaluating an Invention
• Prior Art and Prior Art Searches

Session 3

• Patent Application Requirements
• Written Description and Best Mode
• Utility, Novelty and Non-Obviousness
• Types of U.S. Patent Applications
• Parts of U.S. Patent Applications including Claims
• Proposed Rule Changes 

• Duty of Disclosure
• Communication between Patent Examiner and Inventor/Attorney/Agent
• Patent Prosecution and Prosecution History
• Priority Date and U.S. Patent Application Publication
• Reexamination
• Interference Proceeding

Session 2

• Foreign Patent Application Filing
• International Patent Offices
• PCT Applications
• Process, Timetable and Cost for Foreign Filing and Prosecution
• Obtaining Patent Protection Worldwide

Session 3

• Patent Rights
• Assignments and Licensing
• Legal Opinion Letters
• Due Diligence and Reverse Engineering
• Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Infringement, Invalidity and Unenforceability
• Claim Construction
• Discovery and Expert Witnesses
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit