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Most IP courses and books on utility patenting focus on “how to patent your invention”, i.e. doing it yourself. The purpose is augmenting that process to improve outcomes and save IP expenditures.

The reason why High School innovation programs are shaping the invention/patenting component around IP SAVVYS is about enabling an early intervention into the critical thinking about inventing.  The sooner budding innovators with “the ingredients to succeed” at  innovation and product development learn and understand the invention process, the greater their chances of success will be in the future.

Rather than have these programs focus on "protect this one idea”,  the Schwartz book and course, when used in a high school innovation program, helps to focus on how to develop inventor judgment early.

Doing that one step alone changes the emotion (read that anxiety) and the reality (patenting is hard and patenting the right invention even harder). By shifting the dynamic to “learning how to thi...