Patents

Applying patent information and effectively searching patent databases

Learning Outcomes

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Articulate the use cases of patent information
• Identify the parts of a patent relevant to their use case
• Evaluate and critique a patent search strategy using multiple techniques and resources

List of Videos

0. Overview and disclaimers (01:19)
1. Introduction to utility patents (02:53)
2. How to read a utility patent (02:41)
3. Introduction to design and plant patents (03:07)
4. Overview of the patenting process (02:46)
5. Strategy for patent searching (03:01)
6. Patent searching with government datasets (03:01)
7. Patent searching with public datasets (02:51)
8. Patent searching with Purdue resources (03:04)
9. Demonstrating a patent search (05:46)