Enrollment Status
- Open Seats: 67
- Enrolled: 23
- Capacity: 90
- Waitlist: 0
- Waitlist Max: 25
This course teaches the essentials for a startup founder to build a valuable patent portfolio and avoid a patent infringement lawsuit. Jeffrey Schox and Diana Lin are partners at Schox Patent Group, which is the law firm that wrote the patents for Coinbase, Cruise, Duo, Joby, Twilio and 500+ other startups that have collectively raised over $10B in venture capital. This course, which was previously called ME 208, is appropriate for students with any engineering background. For those students who are interested in a career in Patent Law, please note that this course is a prerequisite for ME238 Patent Prosecution. There are no prerequisites for this course, but the student must be at the senior or graduate level.
To apply for the ENGR208/MSE278 course, please fill out the following application: https://airtable.com/appEt57ttiTjVWkW4/shrkiPIfAxUAlnsJr. You will receive a response of either 'approved' or 'please try again next year' within three days of your completion of the form. If you don't get a response that quickly, you are likely on the bubble, so please be patient.
Important: prerequisite and other requisite information may also be located in the course description.
Find textbook and materials for this class at the Stanford Bookstore. Please note textbooks and materials for past terms and for some future terms may not be available.