ME 502Patenting for Engineers
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1993–94
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1991–92 to 1993–94 (before that, 1971–72 to 1973–74 used the number for Functions of Complex Variables); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
An overview of intellectual property: copyright, industrial design, trade marks, trade names, and trade secrets. Ownership of intellectual property, Invention optimization. Patenting: history, legal context, infringement, searching, writing and understanding patent claims, preparing patent drawings, patent application preparation, submitting the application to the Canadian or United States patent offices, dealing with the examiner, foreign patents. Selling and licencing technology. Litigation.
As printed in the 1991–92 to 1993–94 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1971–72 to 1993–94, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1991–92 to 1993–94 3 calendars
An overview of intellectual property: copyright, industrial design, trade marks, trade names, and trade secrets. Ownership of intellectual property, Invention optimization. Patenting: history, legal context, infringement, searching, writing and understanding patent claims, preparing patent drawings, patent application preparation, submitting the application to the Canadian or United States patent offices, dealing with the examiner, foreign patents. Selling and licencing technology. Litigation.
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1974–75 to 1990–91 calendars.
1971–72 to 1973–74 3 calendars
Another title: Functions of Complex Variables, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Review of fundamental relations. Complex functions and their derivatives. Transformations. Analytic functions; Cauchy-Reimann equations; singular points. Complex integration and integral theorems. Theory of residues. Conformal mapping. Various engineering applications.