1. Dr. Moti Margalit
moti.margalit@gmail.com
IP workshop

2. Outline
• IP Background
• Workshop outline
– Preparatory meeting
– Participant individual ideation
– Group ideation session (s)
– Post session idea refinement
• Idea writeup

3. IP background
technology
product
applications

4. IP background
value

5. IP Background
• Patents
– Incentive to share information
– Grant exclusivity on “claimed matter”
– Main hurdles
• Novelty
• Non obvious

6. IP Background
• Patent structure
– Description
• Background to the invention
• Description of problem to be solved
• Describe the invention and provide “support” for the
claims
• Use cases of the invention
– Claims
• The legal part of the patent
• Describe what is included in the exclusivity of the IP

7. Inventing
Creativity - The invention or origination of any
new thing that has value

8. Inventing
Two main processes for invention
Method I Method II
Define problem Define area or scope
Identify contradiction Breakdown state of art
solution (s) to elements
Apply manipulations on state
of art solutions to resolve
contradiction
Apply manipulations on state
of art solutions using elements
Formulate new invention Check which manipulations
yields something of value

9. Inventing
Method I Method II
Use Problem solving Creative, design or new
product concepts
Main challenge Solving the right problem Avoid non novel, obvious
and trivial solutions
Examples TRIZ SIT, trial and error
even prolific inventors use one or both, though they don’t always
articulate it in this manner

10. Next Steps
• Individual Ideation
– Preparing ideas for group meeting
• Group ideation
– Guided ideation session(s)
• Post session idea refinement
– Idea assessment and prioritization
– Filling gaps
– Patent writeups