本课程网页包括了一个关于发明和专利的可下载教材，《创造或是消灭》，该书的作者是Robert Rines 博士，他也是美国发明家名人堂的成员。
This course site features a downloadable textbook on inventions and patents, Create or Perish, written by the course instructor, Dr. Robert Rines, who has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

本课程探索了专利法及其在快速变化的高科技社会中的作用。该课程在秋季学期将面向本科生开放(6.901)，在春季学期中将面向研究生开放(6.931)。6.901和6.931在内容上大致相同，因此在网页上也是同处一地。
This course explores current research concerning patent law and its role in the rapidly changing world of high technology. It is offered in the fall semester as an undergraduate course (6.901) and in the spring semester as a graduate course (6.931). The content for both courses is largely overlapping, and is presented together on this site.