Summative Assessment Task : Intellectual Property Poster
The task;
The purpose of this assessment is for students to apply their gained knowledge and to conduct further research on the topics of Intellectual Property (IP) and Research Commercialisation. It also provides students with the opportunity to apply Research Communication skills in poster development and preparation.
Each student is required to prepare a poster, choosing one of the following topics;
- a) Produce a poster providing an overview of the Australian Patent System. You should include some details on International patenting processes but the focus should be on Australia.
- b) Produce a poster providing an overview of Plant Breeder’s Rights in Australia. Like above, International licensing can also be briefly described.
- c) Produce a poster providing an overview of IP/Research Commercialisation of a Company or Institute related to your research interests. For example, what IP issues are of relevance to CSL Limited (Commonwealth Serum Laboratories) Limited? If choosing this option, it is important to provide a brief introduction to the Company/Institute rather than delving straight into the IP/Commercialisation issues.
If you choose option A or B, consider that you are an employee of IP Australia and are required to attend an Australian Research Conference to present the poster at a session to educate researchers. Your poster should include some practical cases studies and/or examples. For option C, assume you are an employee of your chosen Company/Institute and have been asked to produce a poster for an internal workshop to train newly recruited staff.
You are highly recommended to include practical examples on your poster. As it is a poster you will not be able to include every specific detail of a topic, so one of the important aspects of this task is for you to prioritise the details that are of highest importance to focus on. One temptation when completing this task may be to fill your poster with words, but think of innovative ways that you can present information without having to include huge slabs of text (e.g. images, flow diagrams, graphs or tables). Refer to our previous discussion on poster presentations and you may wish to refer to some of the additional poster production resources identified in the class notes (links are provided).