Week 1: The Landscape Survey of US-Sino Patents Regarding Neuroimaging Technology

Bonjour again. Week 1 of my project is almost over, and I’ve gotten a couple of things done since we’ve begun so let’s run through them really quick.

The first thing I did this week was speak with my external advisor about the general format and plan for this project. As the intended format of my project is a Patent Landscape Report, my advisor helped me find a few plans for how to format one and how research is generally gathered for such a report. For this day, I received some papers and guides to read on how to format such a project, as well as a video of a lecture from his time spent preparing for his bar exam to watch on the topic.

Starting from the next day, I began work on the project itself. I decided on two documents to read for this week, as they were quite lengthy, and I’d spent the first half of the week formatting rather than researching. The first of the papers I will be reading is a literature review of the field of neuroimaging technology used as research for ADHD. A literature review is a document that collects key sources of a topic and discusses those sources in conversation with another. Seeing as my own project also intends to collect many sources of a topic and discuss them, finding a literature review such as this one and analyzing it in detail would be a huge benefit. Furthermore, the potential for neuroimaging technology as research for ADHD was one of my main inspirations for this project, and as such, I felt this document was a good place to start. Overall, the first document puts the project to a strong start!

The second source I’m reading from for this week is also related to neuroimaging and ADHD, but rather than being a document of its own, it is an excerpt from a medical journal. This comes with many of the benefits I mentioned about my first source regarding neuroimaging and ADHD, but it comes with its own differences from the first. Though I haven’t finished reading and analyzing this source yet, this one so far is documenting new potential areas of research in this field.