Spring 2012 Course Highlight: Comprehensive PCT Practice

PRG’s Spring 2012 Advanced Courses Program will be held from March 25-31, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs, Florida, and all courses have been updated to reflect the many impacts of AIA.  We’ve posted an overview of all Spring 2012 Advanced Courses and looked at a variety of courses: “Designing Around Valid U.S. Patents” , Art and Science of Patent Searching, Crafting and Drafting Winning Patents, and Chemical Patent Practice.  Our course highlighted today focuses on the intricacies of the Patent Cooperation Treaty: Comprehensive PCT Practice – How to Master Its Challenges.

Landon IP Sponsors Patent Searching Course – March 25-27, 2012

Landon IP, in conjunction with partner Patent Resources Group (PRG), is excited to present a training course specifically targeting patent professionals who need to better understand how to perform patent searches.

Art & Science of Patent Searching — Patentability, Validity & Infringement is taught by Jonathan Skovholt and Brian Thurmond, expert patent professionals from Landon IP’s Patent Search Group, who provide strategic guidance to legal and corporate customers worldwide. Landon IP is the largest domestic patent search company and wrote the book on patent searching — Patent Searching: Tools & Techniques. Updated strategies from this text form the basis for this course.

Topics to be covered in this three-day course will include, but are not limited to:

• How to approach a search in a systematic, methodical, and exhaustive way
• How to properly scope the search before even beginning
• How to carefully search by classification, text query progression, and citations, knowing the benefits and pitfalls of each
• Both the major differences and subtle nuances in the steps for conducting a patentability, validity, or infringement patent search
• The differences between the major patent search engines and important considerations in selecting an appropriate search tool

This course is appropriate for both those who conduct patent searches and those who commission them. It is designed for patent attorneys and agents, inventors, paralegals, and research managers and will be understood by anyone from the inexperienced to advanced practitioners.

We’re offering Art & Science of Patent Searching on March 25-27, 2012 as part of PRG’s Spring 2012 Advanced Courses program at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort and Spa in Bonita Springs, Florida. The final half-day of the three-day course is an optional, hands-on Patent Searching Workshop, where attendees have a chance to practice searching alongside the course instructor.

For more information on this course, see Spring 2012 Course Highlight: Art and Science of Patent Searching.

Spaces are filling up, so anyone wanting to take this course should register today! Use the links below to:

• Register by fax or mail
• Register online or learn more about the Art & Science of Patent Searching course

Useful Links for the Patent Bar Exam

Here is a round-up of useful links for anyone studying for the Patent Bar Exam, posted over at the blog Passing the Patent Bar with PRG:

During Chris Casson’s journey to passing the Patent Bar Exam, he mentioned a number of links to websites that will be useful to anyone wanting to register and study for the Patent Bar Exam.  Here is a round-up of some of those important resources:

• PRG Patent Bar Review Course – Learn more about the PRG Patent Bar Review Course, which helped Chris gain the knowledge and strategies he utilized to pass the Patent Bar Exam.  You can take the PRG Patent Bar Review Course in a live setting or through an online video course.  Also learn about ExamWare™, one of the main study tools that Chris utilized after attending the PRG Patent Bar Review.
• USPTO website: Office of Enrollment and Discipline – Here you can find any news about the Patent Bar Exam (including updates based on the America Invents Act), a roster search for a patent attorney or agent, Exam Resources (including registration instructions, various fees, past Exams, and Exam result statistics), and a variety of other news, rules, and resources for registered attorneys and agents.

See the rest of the links over at Passing the Patent Bar with PRG!

Spring 2012 Course Highlight: Chemical Patent Practice

PRG’s Spring 2012 Advanced Courses Program will be held from March 25-31, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs, Florida, and all courses have been updated to reflect the many impacts of AIA.  We’ve posted an overview of all Spring 2012 Advanced Courses and looked at a variety of courses: “Designing Around Valid U.S. Patents” , Art and Science of Patent Searching, and Crafting and Drafting Winning Patents.  Now let’s look at a specialized course for chemical patent practitioners: Chemical Patent Practice.

Keep Up to Date with PRG’s Spring 2012 Advanced Courses

PRG’s Advanced Courses provide the perfect opportunity for you to get the professional training you need and to keep current with the latest developments in patent law. All our returning courses are updated every year to reflect the impact of relevant case law and other developments at the USPTO and the courts. For our Spring 2012 program (March 25-31), these updates include any changes needed to reflect the impact of the America Invents Act (AIA).

We’re also offering a special one-day course, focusing entirely on the AIA, that every practitioner needs to take.

Special Tuition Offer: Standard tuition for the one-day AIA course is $995, but get a special rate of only $495 if you also sign up for a three-day course at this program! The AIA course is conveniently scheduled between the two three-day sessions, to make it as easy as possible for everyone to attend.

So join us in Bonita Springs, FL on March 25-31, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort and Spa.

Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort and Spa in Bonita Springs, FL.

Use the links below to:
• Check out our detailed program catalog
• Register by fax or mail
• Register online

Spring 2012 Course Highlight: Crafting & Drafting Winning Patents

PRG’s Spring 2012 Advanced Courses Program will be held from March 25-31, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs, Florida, and all courses have been updated to reflect the many impacts of AIA.  We’ve  posted an overview of all Spring 2012 Advanced Courses and looked at the courses “Designing Around Valid U.S. Patents” and the Art and Science of Patent Searching.  Today’s course highlight is for experienced patent professional who want to learn the art of Crafting & Drafting Winning Patents!

A Timeline Of Passing The Patent Bar Exam

Over at Passing the Patent Bar with PRG, view the timeline of Chris Casson’s experiences in studying for, registering, and passing the Patent Bar Exam:

September 9, 2011: Chris decides to take the Patent Bar Exam.

September 22, 2011: Chris attends a PRG Patent Bar Review Course, taught by PRG instructor Paul Gardner. Chris then creates a study plan.

September 29, 2011: Chris begins using ExamWare™ to answer practice questions for the Patent Bar Exam.  Chris also uses slides from the PRG review course and the course videos to study.

See the rest of the timeline over at Passing the Patent Bar with PRG!

PRG Has a Full Calendar of Bar Review Classes in 2012!

Start the New Year right!  Make your plans now to take PRG’s industry-leading Patent Bar Review course.

We have many choices of dates and locations for our classroom course in 2012 (and it’s not too late to sign up for our next course later this month):

• January 23-27, 2012 — Newport Beach (Orange County), CA
• March 12-16, 2012 –Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
• May 7-11, 2012 — Chicago, IL
• June 18-22, 2012 — Boston, MA

Left: PRG Alexandria Training Center. Right: Radisson Hotel Newport Beach.

Find the date and venue that best meets your needs and sign up today!  (More 2012 dates and locations will be coming soon.)

Of course, our online video course is available whenever and wherever you are ready to take it!  And whether you take our classroom course or purchase the video course, you’ll also benefit from access to the web-based version of ExamWare^TM,our highly-acclaimed patent exam preparation software.

Use the links below to:

• Register online
• Register by fax or mail

Spring 2012 Course Highlight: Art and Science of Patent Searching

PRG’s Spring 2012 Advanced Courses Program will be held from March 25-31, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs, Florida, and all courses have been updated to reflect the many impacts of AIA.  We’ve already posted an overview of all Spring 2012 Advanced Courses and looked at the course “Designing Around Valid U.S. Patents”, and today we’ll describe the benefits of taking Art and Science of Patent Searching, which will teach you how to conduct a systematic prior art search with greater efficiency and precision!

Spring 2012 Course Highlight: “Designing Around” Valid U.S. Patents

PRG’s Spring 2012 Advanced Courses Program will be held from March 25-31, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs, Florida, and all courses have been updated to reflect the many impacts of AIA.  We’ve already posted an overview of all Spring 2012 Advanced Courses, so let’s take a closer look at individual courses.  Today, we’ll focus on the “Designing Around Valid U.S. Patents” course, which has been offered by PRG for 15 years, and it remains one of the most popular course offerings!