It is a Foundation Course that mainly: Copyrights, Trademarks and Trade Secrets areas of inellectual propertry. It introduces each subject, explores similarities and diffrences in diffrent forms of IP protection.

It covers the study of major aspects of U.S. Patent Statutes an procedures as applied in the United States: U.S. CODE, CFR RULES, and MPEP (Manual of Patent Examination Procedure).

It covers the steps involved in Patent Filing before the USPTO. It also covers First and Second Office Actions, Notice of Appeal, Filing a Brief on Appea, CPAS, RCE, Divisional Applications, CIP, Provisional Applications etc.

This Course Establishes the Importance of Patent and Prior Art Searches and Classifications. It broadly covers techniques and processes involved in conducting patent searches.

It covers the indian perspective of TM, CR, GI, Designs and Plant varieties. It coves Indian Patent Act and Patent Filing Procedure in India. It also covers in brief International Treaties and Conventions related to IP. further, it draws comparisons between the U.S. and Indian Patent Systems.

It covers Eropean Patent Act and Patent Filing Procedure in EPO. It also covers in brief International Treaties and Conventions related to IP. further, it draws comparisons between the US, Indian and European Patent Systems.

This course covers all aspects of Drafting a Patent Application. It includes Interviewing the inventor to embodying the invention in specifications and claims within a patent application. It takes into account the skills involved in drafting to set out the scope of a patent.

It explains the process involved Post-Filing of Patent Applications. How to respond to Office Actions, Requierments of Amening/ Deleting Claims, and any other queries raised by the examiners before any patent office.

This course coevrs the basics of International Patent Filing Procedures. It also highlights advantages of International Filing over the National Patent Filing and maintain Priority Dates etc. It largely covers the process inolved in preparing and prosecuting a PCT Application.

Provides the basics of IP Litigation: Litigation Processes and options, issues in Claim Construction, Infringement Analysis, Handling Defences, Assessment of Risks, Damages, Settlements & Cross-Licensing and related aspects of Patent Litigation. It will focus on relevant cases and case studies.

It covers time value of Money Concepts and discusses various IP Valuation Techniques such as Income Approach, Market Approach and Cost Approach. It covers the importance of valuation of an IP Asset, and Accounting for Intangibilies and portfolio of Intangible Economic Benefits.

Objective: This course covers the methods used to leverage IP Appropriatley through poper licenses and Agreements. Discussions will be hedl with examples, to explain: when and what to license, Cross-Licensing, negotiating the terms of an agreement and key features of sponsoerd research etc.