Assignment 13- Part 4

This post will further discuss what I learned this semester in IEOR 190G.

I learned a lot about patents!
- What can and can not be patented
- The difference between different types of IP
- What Obviousness and anticipation are
- What a prior art is
- What the claims on a patent look like
- How to go about writing the claims
- What a Patent troll is
-etc

What all of this comes down to is I am planning on writing a patent of my own. My cousin and I have an idea for a startup that we have been throwing around for a while, and the idea of patenting the concept really never came up. Both my cousin and I knew what patents were before this semester, but after taking this class I feel I really have a grasp on how important patents are.

Especially in the tech field where there are so many competitors, having a patent can be the difference between life and death for a company. Without this class I would have never considered pursuing a patent. On top of that, I would have had no idea where to start looking to find out about patents. Basically, the only chance of filing a patent I had before this class was to go to a patent lawyer and pay exorbitant amounts of money for he/she to do it. Now I still don't feel like I know how to write a patent, but I feel like I could figure it out and I know the right questions to ask which I believe is the most important part.