IEOR Blog Post #6

Feedback on Group

Overall I think my group works well together. We are open to each other’s ideas and can have a constructive conversation about patents and products that we would like to build using these patents. Everyone is very helpful and very encouraging. As a team we decided to choose a patent that fit the health and fitness sector because it is a booming industry. However is it has been difficult trying to reach professors associated with this patent and we have started to look into patents in other industries. For example, last week in class we presented a flywheel patent which was very interesting. It's main purpose is to be implemented in cars to make them for efficient. I do not have a background in this though so it was not the most ideal patent. This past Monday, me and another teammate met with Askash to discuss potential options for where to go from here. He mentioned that if the patent had a publication along with it then we didn't necessarily need to go talk to the professors about their patent, rather the discussion with the professor was to get some more background information about the patent. The sweat patent we were interested in had a publication with it so it might not be necessary to go talk to the presser about it. However later that day, the main point of contact fro the sweat patent got back to my group and said because the sweat patent was already in the works for a startup it may not be the best option. He said he would talk to the people in charge of the start up and get back to us. If that does not work out we may decide to go with the MEMS Ultrasonic Imaging Patent. I am a little concerned that we may be a little behind in this class but I am hoping that as soon we hear back from our contact with the sweat patent we will have a more clear direction of what we would like to do going forward.  

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