A Course of Intellectual Property Rights with Creativity Exercises and Design Contests

Abstract

This paper describes a course of intellectual property rights which consists of knowledge acquisition subjects, design exercises for the creation of engineering devices, and design contests incorporating realistic constraints. Both design exercises and design contests are important for students to understand the objectives of intellectual property systems and the application of intellectual property rights. The design exercises with user’ s requirements and several realistic constraints improve the design ability of the students. The design contests for the proposal and the conceptualization of engineering devices advance the student’ s creativity.