LIBR 220-02 and 220-11
Resources and Inf. Services
Topic: Patents
Spring 2004

Instructor: Susan Ardis
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Course Web Location:  www.ardis.org/slis220/

All students registered in this class should go to check in website:
http://www.ardis.org/checkin/slis220/ to check in. Once checked in students will receive the class URL,username and password by email. User name and password will be sent to class members by email on January 25, 2004.

Course Description

The course covers intellectual property searching in all types of libraries and information centers.  Special emphasis will be given to U.S. patent and trademark information, publications and databases, their organization, use in libraries and methods of searching including by inventor, owner, and subject of invention.  International patents and trademarks will also be covered, particularly as they relate to U.S. intellectual property. Copyright, trade secret, and other areas of intellectual property will be covered as they relate to our maid topic: patents and trademarks.

Goals and Objectives

Upon completion of the course the student will be able to

1. Recognize and understand the differences between the various types of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets. 
2. Recognize and understand the differences between U.S. and International patents [e.g. country grants, PCT, and WIPO] 
3. Recognize, understand, and use the major online patent and trademark search tools. 
4. Demonstrate the use of patent and trademark information in the reference environment
5. Conduct assignee, inventor, and basic subject of invention searches
6. Conduct assignee, design, and word mark searches

The course supports the following objectives from the School’s goals and objectives:

1. Teaching: Information management, including the selection, organization, storage, retrieval, dissemination and utilization of information resources.
2. Teaching: Advocacy and leadership for citizen access to information.

Web-based instruction 

This is a self-paced web class.  The entire class will be held on the Internet.  Interaction with the professor will be through email. 

There is no textbook. All lectures, assignments and required readings are on the
instructor's Web site.

 Assignments and Grading 

Assignments are due no later than the dates indicated in the class calendar unless there are extraordinary circumstances.

There are no papers or field work. Grading is as follows:

There are no group activities and student participation is graded only
through the assignments.