Review on Group Presentation: Intellectual Property (Group 1: Interactive Architecture)

The presentation by Interactive Architecture presented on the topic, Intellectual Property (IP). The content of IP were informative and relevant, covering general information regarding IP for example, what is IP and why is it important. The team managed to provide basic and straightforward answers to what IP is and gave the audience an understanding of the topic.

          The information given was concise and simple enough to help audience understand the topic better. The slides were simple and nice containing just enough words to grasp what the speaker is talking about. However, the overall oral presentation was not very engaging and does not really have an interaction between the speaker and the audience that made the presentation a bit dull. The way the presenters speak was a bit unclear and at some point I just could not follow up with what they are talking about. Some parts during the presentation seem to be made up on the spot and not well thought out.

          The team has provided some good examples and related information such as the news about Samsung copying or using the idea of Apple and got sued by Apple. I thought that was quite interesting to bring in some real-life issue. It would be better if they had related it back to what their project is all about and how does IP affect their project or how the knowledge of IP affected the way they do their project. The team should have provided and constantly relate the examples given back to their project instead of giving general examples. The level of specificity should be higher. In terms of referencing and images, during the presentation, the references could not be seen but the members of the team said that the screen has blocked it out and that they referenced their images.

          An interesting part of the presentation that I recalled was the team providing example of Patent protection and they showed us SKOONA MOOVA (a drink carrier) which I thought was good as they have an object that supports one of the types of IP. And by ending their presentation with physical model is good because it draws back the attention of the audience. I think that this group’s presentation skills could be improved by being confident in speech to allow audience to be convinced by the content and examples they have provided.