The Claim Game

IEOR 190G has been very supplemental to my undergraduate career and professional interests. I'm a Molecular Biology and Legal Studies double major who was introduced to patents in the context of economic access to medicines. Throughout this semester I've actually been working on a senior thesis on "Patenting Hematopoietic Stem Cell Technologies: Implications for Follow-On Innovation". This project

Throughout this course we have used social media as the basis of our assignments and learning. Rather than pure lecture, we learned from each other through blog posts, comments, youtube videos, and tweets. This is the first student-to-student interaction has been central to a course for me, let alone social media. I think that this is a very