MGMT324

This course is directed at business and science majors. Students will become familiar with the process by which a new idea becomes a marketable product. Actual inventions will be assigned to student teams for semester-long investigation and will involve: creativity and the invention process; determining patentability; investigating sources of patent information; learning to read and write a patent and its claims; producing technical drawings; filing patent, copyright, and trademark forms; prototyping; determining marketability and profitability; and presenting a comprehensive business plan.