Support of Intellectual Property Information Education for Yamaguchi TLO

—Trial for academia industry cooperation—

Abstract

Based on Yamaguchi University and the inclusion cooperation agreement conclusion of Ube Industries, Ltd., We helped intellectual property information education for Yamaguchi TLO as a part of academia industry cooperation. As well as information retrieval education that we used Japan Patent Office IPDL, NRI cyber patent, I educated the following.
1. An introduction to intellectual property information (a kind of patent information, basics knowledge such as how to read patent bulletin)
2. A way of thinking (an intellectual property strategy) of patent investigation in research and development
3. An understanding degree test of a last day; A practical skill examination (each this, student attending a lecture in patent information retrieval)
According to the results of questionnaire, it is difficult for students to understand IPC (international patent classification), patent system, technical terms of patent.