Today in class we did something a little different than usual. Our main assignment and homework is to create a Jeopardy-like game on PowerPoint using questions about patents of course. Toward the beginning of the assignment I was trying to just get the rhythm of looking for terms I want to use and also thinking up the questions, or rather the wording of the questions. It wasn’t too bad after a while, so here are a couple of the questions I thought up; “This term has been used to describe a group of utility patents issued for software programs.” For those who don’t know the answer, it is a Utility Patent. The main thing I was trying to focus on was wording the description correctly so the person answering the question knows what I’m talking about. Another one was; “They are non-attorneys with technical training who are legally permitted to draft, file, and prosecute patent applications on behalf of inventors.” The answer for that question is obviously Patent Agents. While I was thinking of some of these descriptions, it really put in perspective how hard and tedious it is to create a show like Jeopardy because at the same time you want the questions to be hard enough that the players has to think but easy enough to have a good chance of knowing the answer.
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