Intellectual Property
Lunch & Learn – Seminar Series

Date
May 30th, 2025
Time
12pm – 1:30pm
Location
BRC 280/Keck 100/ TBD
Baker Donelson
Polsinelli
Osha Bergman Watanabe Burton

About the seminar:

Office of Technology Transfer presents the Intellectual Property Lunch & Learn seminar series to educate the Rice community about the basics of intellectual property with an emphasis on Patents. The seminar will be presented by experienced patent agents and attorneys from national law firms such as Baker Donelson, Osha Bergman, and Polsinelli. Lunch or light snacks will be provided.

What you will learn:

  • 1. Basics of Intellectual Property (focusing on Utility Patents)

  • 2. What is Patentable?

  • 3. Inventorship on Patents vs Authorship on Papers

  • 4. Types of Patents?

  • 5. Patent assignments, oath/declaration, inventor information

  • 6. What do we need from the inventors to draft the ideal utility patent application?

  • 7. Bars on Patenting (US vs Foreign)

  • 8. Patenting Rejections 101, 102, 103, 112

  • 9. Duty of Disclosure Requirement

  • 10. Pathways for accelerated prosecution in the US

  • 11. Foreign Prosecution (focusing on Europe)

  • 12. New USPTO Guidelines for AI assisted inventions

Who Should Attend:



Rice faculty, researchers and students are welcome to attend. RSVP required to the Executive Director of SynBio, WATER, RAMI or Ken Kennedy Institute.