NPTEL : NOC:Patent Drafting for Beginners (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Feroze Ali


Lecture 1 - PDB-What are Inventions?

Lecture 2 - Background

Lecture 3 - Field of Invention

Lecture 4 - Prior Art

Lecture 5 - Patent Classification

Lecture 6 - Technical Advance

Lecture 7 - What are not inventions

Lecture 8 - Why People Invent

Lecture 9 - How Inventions Look

Lecture 10 - Where to Look for Inventions

Lecture 11 - How to Catch an Invention

Lecture 12 - Getting a working disclosure

Lecture 13 - Searching with the disclosure

Lecture 14 - Outcome of search

Lecture 15 - What is a Patentability Search

Lecture 16 - Reasons for Ordering a Patentability Search

Lecture 17 - When a Patentability Search is Not Required

Lecture 18 - How to Order a Patentability Search

Lecture 19 - Limits of Patentability Search

Lecture 20 - Patentability Search Report

Lecture 21 - How to pitch an invention

Lecture 22 - Identifying the inventive concept

Lecture 23 - Problem Solution Statement

Lecture 24 - Problem-Solution to Claim

Lecture 25 - How to Search for a Granted Patent

Lecture 26 - Provisions relating to claim

Lecture 27 - Some Exceptions to patentability

Lecture 28 - Structure of Claims

Lecture 29 - Preamble

Lecture 30 - Transition

Lecture 31 - Body

Lecture 32 - Form and Punctuation of Claims

Lecture 33 - Omnibus Claims

Lecture 34 - Structural and Functional Definitions

Lecture 35 - Cooperation

Lecture 36 - Types of Claims

Lecture 37 - Dependent claims

Lecture 38 - Apparatus Claims

Lecture 39 - Methods or Process Claims

Lecture 40 - Claim Drafting Best Practices

Lecture 41 - Claims Drafting What to Avoid

Lecture 42 - How to Download Copy of Patent Specification

Lecture 43 - Amendment to Claims

Lecture 44 - Claim Analysis Combo Pen with Marker

Lecture 45 - Introduction to Specification Drafting

Lecture 46 - Enabling Disclosure

Lecture 47 - Best method

Lecture 48 - Parts of the specification

Lecture 49 - Background and Summary

Lecture 50 - Detailed description

Lecture 51 - Parts of the Application

Lecture 52 - Evolution of Patent Specifications

Lecture 53 - Live Session