Learn how to draft, file, and prosecute Utility Patents "Right-First-Time" using The Schwartz Method (TSM)

Prepare airtight patents in days, not weeks or months with The Schwartz Method (TSM)

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Learn how to flawlessly draft, file, and prosecute airtight Utility Patents...all from the inventor point of view

Apply The Schwartz Method (TSM),  the proven “patent it yourself” drafting technique he perfected over 25 years as sole inventor, pro se prosecuting, building, and licensing his extensive utility patent portfolio.

  • It’s explained and taught in his 3rd print edition of Utility Patenting for IP SAVVYS” and the 4th release of Intellectual Property BoostCamp”, his 1 day multi-lesson/self-paced on-line course
  • In non-legalese, Schwartz explains and demystifies MPEP rules, drafting basics, filing tactics, and prosecution “potholes”. Thru the lense of  The Schwartz Method (TSM),  he teaches his proven best practice drafting and prosecution skills to you and your team. 

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Introduction to the Book and Course Fatal Patent Rejections TSM Why/What/How FAQ's IP-BC LEVELS IP-BC Benefits Testimonials Quick Start Selections - IP SAVVYS Worth The Price of Admission (WTPOA) To get reimbursed by your company: Download the IP-BC IP SAVVY's Expense Form & Value Proposition

Introduction to the Book and Course

Introduction to IP SAVVYS Book & IP-BC Course

A Course LEVEL for individual innovators, patent counsel, CEO, and all IP hunters in-between

Assign an IP-BC Course LEVEL to each team member engaged in the pursuit of your utility patent. Select a LEVEL based on role/tasking. Finally close the skills gap among the key players on your patent team

Use the IP-BC ‘s TSM approach. It’s as easy as 1-2-3. Learn how to:

  1. Follow Schwartz's ABC rule (Always Be Claiming).
  2. Ensure properly scoped claims that align with your best mode preferred embodiment.
  3. De-risk your specification from Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARs) using Schwartz’s 80/20 rule, BEFORE filing. 
  •  Be first-to-file, published right-first-time, and issue with clean file wrappers.
  • Save >70% of your prior utility patent expense, especially during prosecution.

Discover the methods, tips, and techniques finally available in print and online from Schwartz, recognized as the inventor of the surface computer, with conversation changing guidelines for CEO's, inventors, and their patent counsel.

  • After securing his first global patent at great expense with Fish&Neave, he filed and prosecuted using successive volumes of PRESSMAN’s "Patent It Yourself". Schwartz compressed this extensive 20+ year PTO experience into a “must have” compact narrative in the widely acclaimed book and course.
  • The book is a “tell all” that shares the entire TSM method. The course is delivered as a completely self-paced, updated, tested, and proven patent drafting discipline, perfected across a diverse set of subject matter categories while building his portfolio of utility patents.
  • The course teaches key techniques in progressive LEVELS based on need and experience, from Beginner to Advanced-Practitioner (it includes the avoiding Fatal Office Action Rejections Starter-Kit and the complete book).
  • Take Schwartz with you on your patent journey and boost critical insight during each PTO stage. As you advance down the drafting/filing/publishing learning curve, avoid expensive show stopping Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARS) BEFORE filing.
  • Finally get all players IP SAVVY, streamlining patenting budgets and reducing prosecution expenses, all the while improving patent quality.

Note: The easiest way to start is to use the ROLE selector to make your choice of where to begin. Click here for a quick guide to starting.

Note: When you elect a LEVEL and log-in to our advanced KAJABI Learning Management System, your private IP-BC course library is automatically loaded including the complete book and FULL Starter-Kit detailing Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARS) and how to avoid them.

Note: The next sections provide a complete course outline, access to the book synopsis, comprehensive explanations of all IP-BC LEVELS, along with expected learning outcomes. Follow the page links for details.

Note: The IP SAVVYS book offers a comprehensive, standalone guide on using TSM to achieve improved utility patent outcomes. CEO and Angel Investors find the book a particularly useful place to start. Our book site can be found by following this link.

 

Getting started with IP-BC

Use the tabs below to explore the IP SAVVYS approach.

Decide which LEVEL you need based on your IP role/tasking. Quick start with either the Book or Starter-Kit. Go further with an IP-BC course LEVEL.

All content is self-paced, on-demand. Enjoy delivery by logging into your own private library on our advanced Learning Management System...24/7 in the comfort of your work space, on any platform, from anywhere in the world.

As a customer of any of our IP SAVVY tools, when logged in, enjoy access to our Patent Blog (Inventor Point of View), referral access to TSM certified Patent Counsel, upgrade Special Offers, and use of our complete STORE. 

Consider making our IPSAVVYS Learning Management System, with all of it's utility patenting tools, an integral part of your company or law firm's continuous learning platform.

Join our many satisfied customers who have already taken Schwartz on their journey through the IP corridor of uncertainty.

Move your team into the IP-Zone with TSM...earn your patent stripes together... secure impact patents

Get going with an IP-BC Course LEVEL

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Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARs) & How to Avoid Them With TSM

Understand FOARs

Dominoes set in motion

  • Black dominoes: Invent-Draft-File
  • . . . wait for Office Actions
  • Red dominoes: get the FOARs VERDICT
  • Will the chips stay black and fall in your favor?

It all depends on whether you de-risked for FOARs BEFORE filing and CLAIMED RIGHT FIRST TIME.

Rejections on (101) patentability, (102) novelty, (103) unobviousness come first. Rejections for specification, definiteness, and best mode enablement (111,112,113) will kill you. When everyone understands this, you're well on the way to changing your IP conversation.

Why does any of this matter? It’s First-To-File now, not First-To-Invent!

The ABC Rule from TSM: Always Be Claiming...Why? Because the pyramid is flipped upside down < THEN -> NOW>
  • THEN <First-To-Invent>: Before America Invents Act (BAIA) it was F-T-I. Many provisionals were filed with specifications but NO CLAIMS...they were "perfected" with new matter on conversion. Provisional claims sought priority from the first date of conception, but were often rejected, and if allowed, they were severely narrowed.
  • NOW <First-To-File>: After America Invents Act (AAIA), it's F-T-FGetting your patent application airtight, right-first-time, unambiguously specifying & claiming the Preferred Embodiment during product development, with claims that do not require adding new matter...TSM filed applications are de-risked from FOARs before filing, avoid fatal rejections during prosecution, and publish with good claim scope and clean file wrappers.
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TSM Why/What/How

Why TSM?

Serious about patents? We were too.
It's the reason why I developed TSM, as a repeatable way to avoid FOARs before filing
...now I'm sharing it with you, in my book and course, as a way for you to succeed in the same way I did.

I spent the last 35 years on a journey down the "IP corridor of uncertainty" . . . opening every door inventing, drafting, filing, prosecuting, & licensing a portfolio of global utility patents.

David Schwartz, serial inventor, entrepreneur, & course author shares The Schwartz Method (TSM), "secret sauce",  for securing airtight patents: "I secured over $40m in royalty bearing sales, on 250 non-infringed claims, across a diverse set of inventions, using my TSM/BBT patent de-risking method".

Turn what you have into what you protect.

What is TSM?

The Schwartz Method is a one-of-a-kind, MPEP (Manual of Patent Examining Procedures) compliant  utility patent drafting technique developed by Schwartz.

  • TSM is a set of procedures that provide an unambiguous and definite way to draft and publish an airtight Utility Patent. Surely a coveted "HOLY GRAIL”.
  • TSM offers a process that "begins with the end in mind", by requiring the drafting of Utility Compliant Disclosures (UCDs) instead of simple Invention Disclosures(IDs).
  • TSM is a universal, subject matter independent drafting technique that ensures the disclosure of key patentable elements in the latest, best mode, Preferred Embodiment (PE).
  • TSM uses a unique, reusable, iterative “inside-out” drafting sequence to form comprehensive invention disclosures that expose, capture, and claim "the inventive step".
  • TSM ensures at least one novel and non-obvious claim, recognizing that what you see in a published MPEP patent is not "how you get it".
  • TSM embeds incremental claiming in each ideation step of the product development life cycle using Schwartz’s Big Bang Theory (BBT) of invention formation.

Schwartz honed TSM, pro se, as sole/lead inventor on over 30 of his own utility patents comprising more than 250 non-infringed claims, across a diverse range of utility patent classifications.  

Use it with Patent Counsel to anticipate and de-risk your specification and claims from Fatal Office Action Rejections(FOARs), before filing.

Use it with the Examiner during prosecution to secure your best possible claim scope and to publish with a clean file wrapper.

Origin of TSM explained   

With BBT as innovation timeline

Born of Trial & Error

I developed The Schwartz Method (TSM) and  Big Bang Theory (BBT) of IP capitalization re-working and perfecting my method as "a matter of life or death" on dozens of  pro sea utility patents, across diverse subject matter.  In BBT, we go back in time and start at T=-5 (conception). Then we work forward to the key event, Notice of Allowance @ T=0, when the “world begins”. It is the sequence of events we use to integrate TSM with the product development life cycle.

I filed globally, prosecuted my applications to issue, and licensed for royalty bearing sales. My best patents were de-risked from Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARs) BEFORE FILING...so I documented my method!  

My promise: Using IP-BC, IP hunters like yourselves can create and and draft high quality SCA patents during product development, all at the lowest cost. 

How does TSM work?

TSM is integrated into your product life-cycle

With TSM you will always be claiming. Non-provisional applications drop out of the shoot with airtight patent specifications and claims:

  • First: TSM employs what we call the Utility Compliant invention Disclosure (UCD). UCDs are different than simple Invention Disclosures. They capture non-obvious elements of your best mode preferred embodiment in language understood by your lead inventors.
  • Then:  TSM iterates to select your best and final UCD for preparing a non-provisional patent application de-risked from Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARs) before filing. 
  • Next: With TSM, when it's time to review your TSM drafted patent, they're more readily reviewed and approved because the lead inventors understand claim scope.
  • When: the application is  filed, it's airtight and right-first-time, simplifying prosecution by not having to add new matter or narrow claims.
  • With TSM You Can: enjoy being  first to secure a notice of allowance for your published patent with properly scoped claims and a clean file wrapper.
  • When you get onboard: as a set of best practices, TSM can be your standard for patenting, serving throughout your entire drafting, filing, and prosecution.

Realize the benefits of using Schwartz’s critical thinking guidance and tips to re-focus all of your patenting conversations.

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IP-BC FAQ's

How IP-BC changes your IP conversation

As an INDIVIDUAL or IP-Champion, turn your IP GOALS into IP OUTCOMES

WHAT is IP-BC?

In less than 1/2 day, apply 30 years of Schwartz's IP experience and accelerate your Utility patent filings in days instead of months.

WHAT: Intellectual Property BoostCamp is a Do It Almost Yourself Utility Patenting course for all IP roles & titles. How? The course is designed in LEVELS from Entry to Advanced-Practitioner.  Use Schwartz's Big-Bang Theory of IP Capitalization (BBT) & The Schwartz Method (TSM) to get 20/20 hindsight into how to prepare and file high quality utility patents @warp speed. IP-BC is for patent drafting in all subject matter areas because Schwartz designed TSM using his 85%/15% rule. The course provides an  airtight method for filings that anticipate Office Action(OA) REJECTIONS , eliminating "fatal" filing errors BEFORE filing, by showing you how to avoid them. De-risk your filings with TSM for lower IP costs and improved portfolio asset value.

WHO is it for and WHY?

Select course levels from Entry to Advanced-Practitioner, as an INDIVIDUAL(Solo) or as part of a TEAM.

WHO: Schwartz structured IP-BC in LEVELS  for ALL IP roles & titles including CEO's, inventors, entrepreneurs, R&D leaders, manufacturing engineers, product/marketing managers, IP liasons, and inside /outside counsel.   WHY: Whether you are are acting solo or as part of a team, it's inevitable that  IP goals are inherently in conflict.  Get 80 more IP Intelligence Quotient points from Schwartz and see how to align IP goals with roles & objectives. When you do this you allow for increasing trust and dynamic stability in your IP workflows. Melding conflicting IP points of view offers new and more effective ways to file great, airtight patent applications . . . Enjoy all of the  "IP-AH-HA"' moments together. 

Select IP-BC Based On Your Role

WHERE, WHEN, & HOW

IP-BC is delivered in an innovative, easy to use on-line learning platform, 24/7 in your course library, with log-in access right here.

WHERE: Select a LEVEL in the store and your personal IP library is configured with just the modules you need.  WHEN: Log-in and work at your own pace,  24/7, on any device, from any browser, any where in the world. HOW: IP hunters are at different points in their journey, so the LEVELS have targeted designs. Entry is for everyone. Take the full length webcast featuring Schwartz's "Big Bang Theory of IP Capitalization". Intermediate uncovers "The IP Corridor of Uncertainty" and highlights risky potholes & workarounds. Advanced explains the ins and outs of TSM. In Advanced-Practitioner, apply your own IP with TSM's rubric in a 30-Day IP Challenge to draft airtight patents 

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IP-BC LEVELS

Why IP-BC LEVELS?

Get everyone on your team into the IP ZONE. In the zone, each member understands/uses the same patenting language and guiding principles. They contribute to the patenting process based of their specific role and tasking.

 Where do IP-BC LEVELS fit in?  

Why offer the IP SAVVYS book?

  • The book is a tell all of insider secrets on patenting and is a complete, standalone guide to patent drafting using The Schwartz Method (TSM).
  • The IP SAVVYS book is the best "pre-read" before taking the course, to learn what you already know as well as what you really need to learn more about when it comes to getting impact utility patents.
  • The course offers an even more comprehensive on-line, self-paced approach for individuals and teams to becoming utility patent drafting savvy. 

Each IP-BC LEVEL (Entry, Intermediate, Advanced, Advanced-Practitioner) has an eBOOK with ALL content.

All LEVELS are completely from the INVENTOR POINT OF VIEW. Augment your current legal perspective with Schwartz's critical insights. 

It's a complete course

Every LEVEL has an easy to follow road-map

  • On our LMS platform
  • Automatic login w/library 
  • Download at will
  • eBOOKs  have all content

Each LEVEL's "GPS-NAV" guide helps you thru by highlighting what's new 

Every LEVEL, including Starter-Kit, uses on-demand video content, story-board content, and an easy to follow learning format comprising:

INTRODUCTION, WTPOA (Worth the Price of Admission), RESOURCE LIST/PDF's, eBOOK, FUNDAMENTALS, WHAT'S NEW IN THIS LEVEL, BONUS/TIPS, WRAP-UP/WHAT's NEXT.

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IP-BC Benefits

Benefit: Get Impact Patents

at the highest quality and the lowest cost
  • Preparation fees can run $5,000 - $25,000 or more
  • Prosecution fees can easily double preparation fees
  • Fatal Rejections result in abandonments as total loss

Lost time, questionable protection? ... Reduce your total utility patent spend by >70% and publish impact patents with Strategic Competitive Advantage (SCA)

Saving this much depends on getting everyone IP SAVVY with IP-BC's TSM, from CEO to innovators, and all hunters in-between. 

Benefit: De-risk FOARs 

Before filing...This is how we do it

Integrate TSM/BBT with product development. Stop filing as an after-thought with our blueprint:

  • Enable, Novel & Obvious (1,2,3)
  • Focus/refine Best Mode (4) 
  • Exhaustive search/redraft (5)
  • Iterative de-risking w/IDS (6)
  • File/prosecute DocPak (7)

Whether you're first to invent, TSM is how to be First-To-File. TSM makes patenting an "engineering discipline" by tying it's IDPAW, UCD, UCPA, & UCP into Product Lifecycle Management. 

Benefit: The Village Effect

Common language vs Tower of Babel 

  • When everyone , from inventor to CEO we’re  "IP-Savvy", then
  • Patent apps popped out of the product roadmap
  • IP hunters used different tool kit components 
  • All contributed to lowering IP costs

They used TSM with BBT to integrate patenting into their Product Life Cycle. They were First-To-File (F-T-F) SCA patents on product delivery. They got critical differentiation and increased value.

Benefit: Shared Goals

"Got IP-zone"?

  • Even though each of their IP GOALS differed, 
  • By sharing the IP-zone, ALL "roles & titles", especially CEO found common ground
  • ...and TSM worked for ALL Subject Matter classifications with it's 85%-15% rule

IP hunters can take any LEVEL and upgrade as needed. Delivered in language everyone understands, TSM has tools for every IP role/task.

Benefit: BBT as unifying model/integrates with TSM

BBT integrates TSM in the product life-cycle

  • BBT ties R&D to Product Creation at T=-5
  • BBT aligns product introduction w/patent filing
  • BBT ties Patent Monetization to BusDev at T=0
  • The underlying TSM ensures SCA patents
  • TSM and BBT together, provide a reusable, repetitive iteration best practice process for your product life-cycle

Time your patent drafts in synch with your go-to market steps. How? Optimize your IP workflow, prioritize your P-E's, and build your SCA patent portfolio with TSM/BBT. If it's worth doing once, it's worth doing again! 

 

Benefit: TSM lessons delivered in plain English 

Using easily understood graphical metaphors, non-legalese, and epiphany's

  • IP-BC's functional benefit is it's clear lessons, delivered in a logical and consumable format, all with MPEP compliant content and SAVVY interpretations.
  • Is T=0 Notice Of Allowance (NOA) a "light-switch" ?
  • Do you "Turn on NOA" & mint money. NO! Why not?
  • Epiphany: You have to "walk the talk" backwards to understand how to turn on that light switch.

The course is delivered in readily understood language - not legalese.  "The Schwartz Method (TSM)" is clearly sequenced in a step-by-step, “how to” de-risk from FOARs blueprint that begins with the market-entry end in mind. BBT is your method to integrate patent drafting with product development.

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IP-BC Testimonials

Endorsement from Bob Norton

Creator of CEO Boot Camp and why CEO's are choosing IP-BC's TSM

 

TESTIMONIALS

What students are saying:

  • A concise method to de-risk your patent process. A comprehensive and thoughtful utility patenting course.
  • I love it. Excellent. Having learned from structured teachers or teachers who teach with metaphor and structure, I think this program is great. Finally, somebody knows how to use metaphor and structured graphics to explain the patent system.
  • Years ago I downloaded a copy of the Manual for Patent Examining Procedures, and found it very heavy going in trying to try to understand the process of citing the operative structure of a patent. I found those concepts buried in civil service gobbledygook. Now, with the America Invents Act, everything's changed. This course helps me walk through the MPEP and understand the new rules. 
  • Wow! This is almost like boot camp. At least your're explaining it; there's no guessing. 
  • I wish I had this training back in 1970 I was doing consulting work for people; inventing things as well as inventing my own stuff. Eventually I had a hand all my work off to a patent attorney... I never owned anything. All I can say now is thanks to to the author of this program. 

 

Testimonial: Dont's/Do's

Our Customers Tell Us:

IP SAVVYS DON’T:
  • Use "invention disclosure forms" promising patents
  • Rush patents to "the altar" without de-risking them first 
IP SAVVYS DO:
  • Harvest inventions as part of development
  • Keep trade secrets until filing
  • De-risk withThe Schwartz Method (TSM)

Do It Almost All Yourself (DIAAY)

  • Avoid expensive misunderstandings
  • STOP the arguments
  • Save up to 70% of your patent spend

Learn how to de-risk FOARs and self-manage your pathway to patentship

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Quick Start - IP SAVVYS is Worth The Price Of Admission

Quick Start the IP SAVVYS WAY

Select from our Tools Collection

The IP SAVVYS Book

The book is a quick-start way to understand what you really do and don't know about securing impact utility patents. It’s particularly useful to CEO’s and angel investors seeking to get their teams IP SAVVY. Read Part1 (MPEP Demystified) & Part2 (TSM and changing your patenting conversations) in one sitting. Find out how to use TSM to enter the IP-Zone so you can re-focus/optimize your team’s patent processes. Use the book as a pre-requisite to the FULL Starter-Kit and/or an IP-BC course LEVEL for you and each member.

Get the IP SAVVYS Book $12.95 USD

FULL Starter-Kit

The FULL Starter-Kit is an "on-ramp" to the IP SAVVYS learning experience and the multi-level course. The kit bundles a pdf down load of the book with bonus content on Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARs). The Book includes both Part1(MPEP demystified) & Part2(Change your patent conversations with TSM), along with a detailed TSM explanation and a comprehensive FOARs analysis. The FULL Starter-Kit also includes special offers to get bound copies of the book and to upgrade to any course LEVEL. A great place for a Quick Start.

Get the FULL Starter-Kit $19.95 USD

IP-BC Course LEVELS

IP-BC demystifies patenting using insightful video clips, logical/non-legalese forms, checklists, and TSM’s innovative utility compliant invention disclosure. Accelerate down the patent learning curve on your right-first-time pathway to patentship. When you enter the "IP corridor of uncertainty" with TSM on your shoulder ... you'll be SAVVY about the “doors to open” with the  conversation changing knowledge. Ensure lead inventor in final approval cycle.  Prosecute Notice of Allowance w/clean wrapper & great scope. 

Choose LEVEL starting @$79.95 USD

Consider these three vignettes

If any of them resonate, then the IP SAVVYS tool box is right for you

In this first vignette, you enter Monty Python's argument room, except in this version, each room has someone from your IP hunt running it . . . from patent counsel, to a cohort, to the Patent Examiner. And instead of arguments, you change each IP conversation into a collaborative dialogue.

Vignette #1 - The Argument Room

Understanding or Mis-understanding...you decide

 

Each door you open in the IP Corridor Of Uncertainty results in a unique IP conversation, each with a different set of risks. De-risk your engagements using IP-BC. Find your pathway with us.

Watch the argument room again
Vignette #2 - Coming to America

In this vignette, picture yourself as the immigrant with your own unique language or as the immigration officer offering a pathway to citizenship. It's not only about using a common language to express your goals...it's also about the citizenship  principles. You're not "coming to America" but you have to choose your "patent speak" or Universal Patenting Language(UPL) and Guiding Principles(GPs) to achieve your pathway to PATENTSHIP. Choose wisely and opt in for IP-BC.

Vignette #3 - The magic Orgital Pill

In this last vignette consider the following: The single most challenging part of patent counsels relationship with  clients is UNINFORMED DISORGANIZATION. Imagine yourself as either the innovator or patent counsel, being offered a unique pill that magically gets you speaking the same patent language with the same understanding of what it's going to take to file. It brings new life to both of you as IP savvy partners, singing from the same hymnal. Will you each take the potion & be imbued with the power of IP-BC's Universal Patenting Language (UPL) & Guiding Principles(GP) to get equally organized, be  mutually understood, and file accurately and first?

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