Comments on: Study Guide http://mypatentbar.com Patent Bar Review and Study Guide Tue, 22 May 2012 15:03:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dora http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42208 dora Thu, 17 May 2012 02:51:37 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42208 BTW, please email me ddh2739@yahoo.com, if anyone has materials to sell...Thanks a lot! BTW, please email me ddh2739@yahoo.com, if anyone has materials to sell…Thanks a lot!

]]> By: dora http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42206 dora Thu, 17 May 2012 02:47:10 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42206 Does anyone have the patent bar material to sell? I am planning to take the exam this summer. Thank you so much!! -Dora Does anyone have the patent bar material to sell? I am planning to take the exam this summer. Thank you so much!!
-Dora

]]> By: Potential http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42154 Potential Wed, 16 May 2012 22:14:25 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42154 Congrats Satchmo! So, as a conclusion, can US national stage app claim priority to US provisional? Answer Yes? Congrats Satchmo! So, as a conclusion, can US national stage app claim priority to US provisional? Answer Yes?

]]> By: dcnative http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42098 dcnative Wed, 16 May 2012 18:51:43 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42098 It's the date that you fully clear "waivers" (i.e., no amoral or unethical reports on you from the general public) and they list your name on their registry. So for example, if people can respond to their call for bad info on you up to and including June 5 and USPTO receives nothing, then on June 6 they will put your name on their website registry and your official registration date will be recorded as June 6. It’s the date that you fully clear “waivers” (i.e., no amoral or unethical reports on you from the general public) and they list your name on their registry. So for example, if people can respond to their call for bad info on you up to and including June 5 and USPTO receives nothing, then on June 6 they will put your name on their website registry and your official registration date will be recorded as June 6.

]]> By: Miranda http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42051 Miranda Wed, 16 May 2012 15:16:12 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42051 For the date of registration, do they list the exam date or the date you become listed on the site as a practitioner? For the date of registration, do they list the exam date or the date you become listed on the site as a practitioner?

]]> By: satchmo http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42006 satchmo Wed, 16 May 2012 12:03:42 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-42006 passed yesterday with only 2 weeks of *real* studying (one chapter a day of OmniPrep practice questions, followed by ~40 practice questions / day of past exams and Mambo5’s compilation in the last 2 days). I’ve also been working in the field (as an associate at an IP firm) for 5+ years, so most of 101/102/103/ksr/bilski, as well as chapters 600, 700, and 2100 were old hat, at least in a qualitative sense. Here’s as much as I can remember after my bender last night: -At least 5 KSR questions -One Bilski question -Lots of PCT including elements of IA, can a US national stage app claim priority to US provisional, as well as several where the USPTO acts as receiving office (RO) -broadening reissue / correction of inventorship -Moon Dust -Approx 40% we repeats from 2002/2003 tests, it was nice knowing most of these cold so I could check the right answer and spend more time on the unfamiliar ones. Speaking of which, I want to emphasize that for someone like me who didn’t really study very hard, efficiently SEARCHING the materials was probably what enabled me to pass. In each 3-hour block, I finished the 50 questions in under 2 hours, and used the last hour to review the unsure ones and scan the materials. Someone said it before and I’ll say it again: search broad (i.e. the name of the subsection) before searching narrow, otherwise the software will direct you to every instance of your search term. Avoid using keyboard shortcuts, you may crash the Prometric PCs. Take your time, but don’t get stuck. And USE Appendix R for quick CFR lookups before delving into MPEP. Thanks to this site for my *very* last-minute prep tool! it is possible to spend <1mo preparing, though not for everyone… passed yesterday with only 2 weeks of *real* studying (one chapter a day of OmniPrep practice questions, followed by ~40 practice questions / day of past exams and Mambo5’s compilation in the last 2 days). I’ve also been working in the field (as an associate at an IP firm) for 5+ years, so most of 101/102/103/ksr/bilski, as well as chapters 600, 700, and 2100 were old hat, at least in a qualitative sense. Here’s as much as I can remember after my bender last night:
-At least 5 KSR questions
-One Bilski question
-Lots of PCT including elements of IA, can a US national stage app claim priority to US provisional, as well as several where the USPTO acts as receiving office (RO)
-broadening reissue / correction of inventorship
-Moon Dust
-Approx 40% we repeats from 2002/2003 tests, it was nice knowing most of these cold so I could check the right answer and spend more time on the unfamiliar ones.

Speaking of which, I want to emphasize that for someone like me who didn’t really study very hard, efficiently SEARCHING the materials was probably what enabled me to pass. In each 3-hour block, I finished the 50 questions in under 2 hours, and used the last hour to review the unsure ones and scan the materials. Someone said it before and I’ll say it again: search broad (i.e. the name of the subsection) before searching narrow, otherwise the software will direct you to every instance of your search term. Avoid using keyboard shortcuts, you may crash the Prometric PCs. Take your time, but don’t get stuck. And USE Appendix R for quick CFR lookups before delving into MPEP.

Thanks to this site for my *very* last-minute prep tool! it is possible to spend <1mo preparing, though not for everyone…

]]> By: upcoming http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-39988 upcoming Wed, 02 May 2012 01:44:04 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-39988 Hey Oscar, All the best for the upcoming exam! If you would be kind enough to sell your PLI materials once you are done, please contact me at demunshi@gmail.com I am starting to prepare for the exam in August 2012. Hey Oscar,

All the best for the upcoming exam!

If you would be kind enough to sell your PLI materials once you are done, please contact me at demunshi@gmail.com

I am starting to prepare for the exam in August 2012.

]]> By: Keener http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-39746 Keener Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:22:45 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-39746 Has anyone tried or used exam simulators? Are any of them any good? Are there any to stay away from? I tried the usptoExam.com (ad for this site) but they were not accepting new subscriptions. I've considered three others: -CATPrep Simulators (free unless you want it graded), -capital-patentprep.com cost $60 bucks and sounds like they created questions of their own (most updated copyright), and -Small Entity.com patent simulator costs $30 bucks. I have yet to see one that specifies it uses answers derived from e8r8. Has anyone tried or used exam simulators? Are any of them any good? Are there any to stay away from?
I tried the usptoExam.com (ad for this site) but they were not accepting new subscriptions. I’ve considered three others:
-CATPrep Simulators (free unless you want it graded),
-capital-patentprep.com cost $60 bucks and sounds like they created questions of their own (most updated copyright), and
-Small Entity.com patent simulator costs $30 bucks.
I have yet to see one that specifies it uses answers derived from e8r8.

]]> By: J http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-39560 J Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:20:01 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-39560 I sat for the patent bar earlier today and passed it on the first go, largely thanks to this website. Giving back, here are a few questions that I remember seeing: - Tables and CD-ROMS (52 tables of half-page size in two different CD's. Answered that it was improper because <100 pages and CDs were not sent in duplicate) - I had about three Bilski questions, all of which were searchable word-for-word in the guidance (one of them was about an invention that claimed transitory signals...not patentable subject matter) - I had one question on the updated Rules before the BPAI about claimed subject matter in a brief (the answer was word-for-word from the guidance: must "include references from the specification by page and line number or by paragraph number, and reference to the drawings, if any, by reference characters.") - Required items in an accelerated examination for soil treatment - Potter - Moon Dust - PCT from Costa Rican applicants (sent to IB, retains IA filing date) - Tommie and Jo inventorship/assignment question - Submission of color drawings in design apps - What doesn't need to be submitted in a recording of assignment (copy of the patent/app) I sat for the patent bar earlier today and passed it on the first go, largely thanks to this website.

Giving back, here are a few questions that I remember seeing:
- Tables and CD-ROMS (52 tables of half-page size in two different CD’s. Answered that it was improper because <100 pages and CDs were not sent in duplicate)
- I had about three Bilski questions, all of which were searchable word-for-word in the guidance (one of them was about an invention that claimed transitory signals…not patentable subject matter)
- I had one question on the updated Rules before the BPAI about claimed subject matter in a brief (the answer was word-for-word from the guidance: must "include references from the specification by page and line number or by paragraph number, and reference to the drawings, if any, by reference characters.")
- Required items in an accelerated examination for soil treatment
- Potter
- Moon Dust
- PCT from Costa Rican applicants (sent to IB, retains IA filing date)
- Tommie and Jo inventorship/assignment question
- Submission of color drawings in design apps
- What doesn't need to be submitted in a recording of assignment (copy of the patent/app)

]]> By: Mambo5 http://mypatentbar.com/this-study-guide/#comment-38045 Mambo5 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:18:27 +0000 http://patentbar.wordpress.com/this-study-guide/#comment-38045 Hey Miranda, sorry but I don't know the answer to your question. I only gave them one address, my residence, since I am still awaiting bar admission, and am not working as a patent practitioner yet. Hopefully that will all be changing next month! For now my certificate is stuffed in my box of important papers with everything else. But you can bet I'll be going for a fancy frame too, as soon as I have two patents to rub together! Hey Miranda, sorry but I don’t know the answer to your question. I only gave them one address, my residence, since I am still awaiting bar admission, and am not working as a patent practitioner yet. Hopefully that will all be changing next month!

For now my certificate is stuffed in my box of important papers with everything else. But you can bet I’ll be going for a fancy frame too, as soon as I have two patents to rub together!

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