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Vishnu Vasudev

Coach Whitcomb

ISM II

18 December 2022

Original Work Set-Up and Completion Summary

Introduction

Entrepreneurs engage in a unique relationship with the intellectual property law process.

They sustain intellectual property law because the purpose of said law is to protect inventions,

and inventions are created by entrepreneurs. Similarly, entrepreneurs are sustained by IP law

because IP law incentives entrepreneurship by preventing copycats from stealing inventions.

Thus, understanding the IP process is the logical next step in my study of entrepreneurship with

regards to biomedical science and devices. As such, this year in ISM, I am studying the patent

process and how it pertains to me as a biomedical entrepreneur. Because of this, I believe the

best course of action for my original work is to write and file a provisional patent application for

an invention idea of mine.

The provisional patent application is composed of a variety of sections, including a

summary, descriptions of the invention, background information, drawings, and a list of claims.

To submit my provisional patent application (PPA), I must first compose all of these components.

As I am interested in completing this process entirely on my own, I will need to create the

drawings, write the claims, and write the other sections based on my research of the prior art.

Review of Skills and Research

To create this patent application, I need to have knowledge of several topics. Some of

these topics are things that I will have to learn through future research and some are things that I
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already know. First of all, I need to conduct more in depth research of the prior art. This will be

integral to formulating the background information section of my PPA, but it will also be helpful

in understanding how to write my claims so that they are clearly different from other patents. I

will also have to learn how to create drawings of my invention, which means I will have to

practice drawing. I am not particularly skilled in the field of hand-drafting, so I will be using

CAD software like Autodesk Inventor/Fusion 360. Other skills, like creating my claims, are a bit

more confusing, in the sense that they are written in a very particular way, and I am not too

familiar with that way due to me lacking experience.

To create the rest of my patent application, I will have to conduct more research on the

specifics of each component but also look at examples from existing patents. Through my past

research, I already understand these components, though not all at the same level. I believe that

looking at examples of these documents will help me significantly in understanding how they are

meant to be written.

Methodology

Materials

As I am creating a document for my original work, I do not need many materials. As I

will have to create documents, I will need the software to make them. I will also have to make

drawings of my product. Therefore, I will need to use CAD software in addition to the word

processing software.

Procedures

To create my product, I will first have to conduct more research on the prior art so that I

can formulate my claims as best as possible. Then, I need to conduct further research on the

stylistic language used to write patents, so that I can match that as best as possible. Having
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completed this research, I will have to actually create my PPA and all of its components.

Conducting these steps will allow me to create an effective provisional patent application that is

best suited to my invention idea.

Higher-Order Thinking Skills Used

In the process of creating my first PPA, I will be using multiple higher-order thinking

skills. The most evident of these is synthesis, where learners create some sort of product. By

creating a patent application, I am harnessing the information I have learned to create a new

product. However, I am not directly translating the information I have learned through research

into a product. Rather, I have to first analyze this information to determine how to best apply it to

my particular situation. Only then can I actually create a product. I am also using the skill of

evaluation, as I am advancing an argument through my patent application. My claims are an

argument in which I try to position my invention idea as sufficiently unique as to warrant

intellectual property protection from the government. The choices I make in my PPA are

reflective of the evaluation I have performed on my analysis to decide the position I want to take.

Any sort of application is an argument because one has to make choices, which means one has to

make an argument why one choice is superior. Using these 3 higher-order thinking skills will

allow me to create a logical, justifiable patent application that best reflects my knowledge.

Conclusions

Writing and filing a patent application is foundational to being a successful biomedical

entrepreneur. Without protection, my ideas are unlikely to be commercially successful, and then

they cannot be turned into reality. Learning patenting is important, because if my ideas are only

able to exist in my head, they cannot help people in real life. So I’m writing a patent application

for a simple reason: to ensure that I can achieve my goal of helping as many people as possible.
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Results

My goal in writing a provisional patent application was to gain experience with regard to

the world of patents. In that sense, I have written a provisional patent application with all of the

components of a nonprovisonal patent application. All a provisional patent application actually

needs is a drawing and a specification. It does not need claims, anything referring to the prior art,

or any of the detailed descriptions that I have written. As such, while I will only be filing a

provisional patent application, I have familiarized myself with many of the components of a

nonprovisional one.

Conclusions

My conclusion from the completion of my original work is that I am certainly better

acquainted with the patent process. This will help me be more successful in bringing my ideas to

the market and to the people who need them in the future, Therefore, I believe that my original

work accomplished its original purpose.

Application

Now that I have written my provisional application, my invention will be considered

patent pending upon my application being received by the USPTO. I believe that my invention

could be successful in the future, and this provides me a platform to build a company from. I

intend to file a few more provisional applications in the new year, because I have thought of

many invention ideas, and I feel that they could be developed into inventions worthy of patents.

And with this skill developed, I want to focus more next semester on the sales/marketing and

product development parts of engineering entrepreneurship. That was what I studied last year,

and I found it to be more interesting. I am not trying to become a patent attorney, so I do not

necessarily need to learn how to write patents in great detail.