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The document provides guidelines for an assignment requiring students to find and summarize three pieces of intellectual property (IP). Students are instructed to search for promising yet undiscovered IP related to their field of study. For each IP, they must write a one-page summary covering its identification, technology, and market potential. The finished four-page document should include three one-page IP summaries formatted according to the provided guidelines. Students will share printouts of their IP summaries in class.

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The document provides guidelines for an assignment requiring students to find and summarize three pieces of intellectual property (IP). Students are instructed to search for promising yet undiscovered IP related to their field of study. For each IP, they must write a one-page summary covering its identification, technology, and market potential. The finished four-page document should include three one-page IP summaries formatted according to the provided guidelines. Students will share printouts of their IP summaries in class.

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MBS600 Capstone

Guidelines for the Three IPs Assignment


The purpose of this assignment is to develop skills in searching for and finding intellectual
property (IP) related to a specific interest, in gathering related information, and in
communicating the essential business information about a package of IP in a one-page format.

Each student should conduct a personal search. Each is expert in some field of applied
science; we can begin with ones concentration in the MBS program, or in ones previous
studies or professional practice.

One starting point is to ask, Wouldnt it be neat if someone developed a solution for
(any problem of you own irritation)? Select some key words, and plug those into
some of the websites listed below. See what comes closest to solving that problem thats
bugging you, or the opportunity you can see for something that would help others.

As you begin to find IP that looks interesting, note the other keywords, and modify your
search to include them.

Find three (3) pieces of promising IP. These need to be:


o Available;
o Not yet widely commercialized; and
o Protected or protectable IP.
The three may be closely related, but it is often better (for the educational purposes of
this course) if they are answers to different questions. They do NOT yet have to be
covered by issued patents, but you do need to identify their legal status, their stage in the
IP protection system.

Write up your work in the following format (See posted Rubric for further information):
Cover page, identifying yourself as the author, give the document a meaningful
and unique title; add a date, and publisher (i.e., enough information about the
context of the document to enable a curious reader to find you for follow-up). If
you have space, an Index or Table of Contents would be nice.
Add one page for each piece of IP.
o Each IP should be adequately Identified: Official name; inventor, owner or
assignee, critical dates, commercial availability.
o Summarize the Technology in a paragraph or two: What does it do? How
does it work? What does it build upon? What problem does it solve?
o Address the Market issues: Who cares? Who would benefit? How big is
that benefit? (To each user? To the world as a whole?) Are there other
stakeholders likely to be affected? What competition is the technology
likely to face? Are there legal or regulatory barriers? Is there an
established market through which this product could be moved? Who
controls that market?
That work should result in a four-page document. MS-WORD format is preferred, so we
can Track Comments as we review them and return useful information to you.

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MBS600 Capstone
Guidelines for the Three IPs Assignment

Do what you can. You have only one page for each piece of IP, and all those technical
data have to be translated back into business-English, so there are significant limits on the
depth of information you can report. The high level value of the IP is what is most
important. There is no room in this format to report detailed technological or market
analyses; if you do such work, you are still going to have to boil the results down to 1-2
sentences, so use your time and writing space carefully. If someone else has done such
studies, however, a link to them would be a good inclusion for your summary.

The finished document should reflect your sense of design. It should be well-written.
Each IP summary should fit on one page, using normal borders and 11 or 12-point fonts.
That should convert to about 40-50 words for Identification, 50-80 words for Technology,
and 50-80 words for Market Potential: altogether <200 words, plus design and white-space.

When you have it ready, save it in a uniquely-named file (Do NOT call it 3IP.doc I
already have 100s of those!!!) and deposit it with the Sakai Assignment for this exercise.
Bring five paper copies of each IP summary (NOT bound) with you to, to share with
other students. Make sure your name is on each summary page.

Guidelines for Searching for IP


1. Rummage through IP-available websites, starting with the Rutgers OTC site:
http://techfinder.rutgers.edu/
2. Explore a few other sites, including USPTO:
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/search/
3. US National Labs and other research universities are also good sources. Which
National Labs are likely to be good sources for your particular search depends on what
you are looking for. Plug US National Lab into your search engine, along with your
keywords, and see who shows up. Consider exploring sources in other countries.
4. Among the universities, consider:
MIT: http://s118.ipvisioninc.com/Call/GeneralSearch.act?q=mittlo
Stanford: http://techfinder.stanford.edu/
Carnegie Mellon: http://cmu.flintbox.com/public/group/235/
5. A good general intro place is the MIT guide:
http://libguides.mit.edu/patents

DUE: no later than 6:00 pm EDT (i.e., BEFORE class!)

See also: PPT deck on IP databases; 3IP Rubric

Time budget est.: 5-10 hours.

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