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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.
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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:
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.
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.
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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
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.
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".
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.
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.
With TSM you will always be claiming. Non-provisional applications drop out of the shoot with airtight patent specifications and claims:
Realize the benefits of using Schwartz’s critical thinking guidance and tips to re-focus all of your patenting conversations.
Back to topAs an INDIVIDUAL or IP-Champion, turn your IP GOALS into IP OUTCOMES
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.
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.
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
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?
All LEVELS are completely from the INVENTOR POINT OF VIEW. Augment your current legal perspective with Schwartz's critical insights.
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.
Select An IP-BC LEVEL Based On Content Back to topLost 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.
Integrate TSM/BBT with product development. Stop filing as an after-thought with our blueprint:
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.
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.
IP hunters can take any LEVEL and upgrade as needed. Delivered in language everyone understands, TSM has tools for every IP role/task.
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!
Back to topThe 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.
Creator of CEO Boot Camp and why CEO's are choosing IP-BC's TSM
Learn how to de-risk FOARs and self-manage your pathway to patentship
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Understanding or Mis-understanding...you decide
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.
Back to topIn 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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