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"Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), the University, the Student and the Patent Attorney (PA)"
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Degree Title
full-time
Are you a part-time student
student
Years since
start of please select
degree
EC Non-EC
Are you a UK student
student student
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If you selected ‘Other’ as one of your choices, please give details below
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Q4. How sure were you of your choice of degree course when applying to
university?
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Q5. Please indicate whether you agree or disagree with the following
statements
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Q6. How confident are you about your current skills and ability to do the
following?
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Q7. How much do you agree with the following statements about your future
career plans?
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Q8. Do you know any fellow students at this university who are
No Yes No. of students?
a. Applying for a 1 2
patent 3 or more
1 2
b. Granted a patent
3 or more
c. Considering 1 2
commercial
3 or more
exploitation
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Q12. Have you ever considered using, or, used any of the following?
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Q14. What, in your view, is the level of your awareness of IP rights and
patent law?
On a scale from 1 to 5
1 = completely unaware 2 = mostly unaware 3 = partially aware
4 = mostly aware 5 = completely aware
1 2 3 4 5
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Q18. How important do you think are enterprise skills (e.g. business,
management, communication, legal, financial and commercial skills) for
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Q19. How important are Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) skills, in your
view, as part of the above listed enterprise skills for
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questionnaire
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Is English
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A Short Quiz
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Please note that one or more of the given options may be correct for all the
questions in this quiz.
Kindly indicate how confident you are of the correctness your answers for each
question, by using a number between 1 and 3 to show the level of confidence,
where
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Trade Mark
Confidentiality Agreement
Registered Design
Patent
Copyright
All of the above
Confidence level? 1 2 3
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1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
5 years
More than 5 years
Confidence level? 1 2 3
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4. How long after applying to the UK Patent Office for a patent can a ‘public
disclosure’ of your invention be made?
Immediately
up to 6 months
up to 12 months
up to 24 months
Not until the patent is granted
Confidence level? 1 2 3
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