Schedule for Classroom Bar Review Courses
Projected State Bar CLE Credit: 37.5 hours (includes 1.5 hours ethics)
Course Schedule: 8:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (each day)
Lecture Topics:
- Overview of the course and materials.
- Parts of the patent, focusing particularly on the written description, enablement and best mode requirements (Chap. 2, Patent Practice).
- The law and practice of patent claims; details of claims law for machines, articles of manufacture, methods, and compositions of matter (Chaps. 2 and 3).
- Novelty and other requirements for patentability under §102 (Chap. 4).
- Nonobviousness of the novel invention, §103 (Chap. 5).
- Continuing prosecution (including continuing applications and RCEs), §120 (Chap. 6).
- Foreign and provisional applications priority, §119 (Chap. 7).
- New matter (Chap. 8).
- Requirements for a nonprovisional application (Chap. 9).
- Examination of applications (Chap. 11). Applicant’s reply to Office Action (Chap. 15).
- Overcoming rejections with affidavits (Chap. 12). Double patenting (Chap. 13). Restriction requirement and election of species (Chap. 14).
- Pre-issuance publication of applications (Chap. 10).
- Inventorship (Chap. 16).
- Ownership, assignment, and access to applications (Chap. 19).
- Representing the inventor or owner (Chap. 20).
- Allowance, issue, and maintenance (Chap. 21).
- Patent Cooperation Treaty practice (Chap. 26).
- §102(e) prior art in the form of published applications and U.S. patents issued from PCT applications (Chap. 27).
- Petitions and appeals (Chap. 18).
- Correction of patents; reissue, reexamination, and certificate of correction (Chap. 22).
- Interference substance and procedure (Chap. 24).
- Ethics and inequitable conduct in prosecution (Chap. 25).
- Patent Term (Chap. 2 and Chap. 17).
- Design patents (including CPAs) and plant patents (Chap. 23).
NOTE: During the Classroom Bar Review Course, the faculty intersperses representative, high-frequency, past USPTO exam questions throughout the lectures. PRG’s emphasis on learning, rather than memorization, combined with continual reinforcement and application of the course content to past USPTO exam questions, is a proven learning mechanism that has contributed to PRG’s pass rate dominance year after year. This emphasis empowers PRG’s alumni in lengthy exams during which there is little time to search for answers in the MPEP at the exam site.