These courses are designed to give you a basic working understanding of the nature of intellectual property assets, how to protect these assets, why these assets are important to the inventor, creator, or business entity, and what is expected of all company personnel.  


Intellectual Property Introduction

The Intellectual Property Introduction course is designed to give all Company personnel a basic understanding of intellectual property, how it is protected, why these assets are essential to the business, handling proprietary information, interacting with third parties, and what is expected of all personnel.  


Fundamentals of Patents-Acme

Patents give inventors the government-granted exclusionary right to their product or process invention. 

Employees can learn in detail about the fundamentals of patents, determine if an idea is patentable, and its importance to an organization to gain a competitive advantage and positive business results.

This version of the course is specific to a fictitious company called iAcme.


Business Importance of Intellectual Property Assets

Intellectual property plays a key role in all business. Large or small. Regardless of industry. Intellectual property assets create business value and competitive advantage for a company. Importantly, these assets influence consumers' confidence and buying decisions. Both companies and consumers rely on intellectual property for differentiating among companies, products, services and making choices. Regardless of job function, everyone is engaged in handling intellectual property assets. We are exploring the business perspective of value protection and creation and consumer perspective of gaining greater value as result of intellectual property assets.

Employees will learn about the business value and underlying principles of intellectual property assets.

Patents Fundamentals

A Patent gives inventors the government-granted exclusionary right to their product or process innovation. 

Learn in detail about the fundamentals of patents, determine if an idea is patentable, and its importance to an organization to gain a competitive advantage and positive business results.

Trade Secret Fundamentals

In business, working with third party organizations is a necessity and the use of social media is commonplace, therefore employees must be aware of guidelines for handling company proprietary information. Using relevant scenario and examples, students will learn how to protect proprietary information. Students will learn how to handle themselves in various meeting and relationship circumstances.



Copyright Fundamentals

Copyright protection enables authors and creators to protect their creative expressions. This module will teach you about the protection concept and importance of copyrights for an organization.  You will be able to define what a copyright is and the benefits of copyright protection. Additionally, you will be able to describe examples of what a copyright protects.  

Trademark Fundamentals

Trademarks provide powerful marketing impact. Learn how trademark protection strengthens product and services being offered by a business.