1. Applying for a Patent Connecticut Invention Convention
Applying for a Patent
Connecticut Invention Convention

2. Patent Review What is a patent?
What are the three basic components of a patent in the United States?

3. Applying Sent via web or mail to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Preliminary patents serve as a 12-month placeholder

4. Skits
Your teacher will split you into groups and each group will perform a different patent scenario to the rest of the class.
You must write a script and perform a minute skit to the class.

5. CIC Provisions
Ways that the CIC protects the secrecy of its inventors:
Maintain confidentiality among peers, teachers, and convention attendees.
Signage at all CIC events.
Definition of “public place.”