Note: Every IP-BC Course LEVEL includes Schwartz’s Utility Patenting Book (218pp) and FULL Starter-Kit, which details what Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARS) are and how to avoid them.
Note: The next section gives a brief introduction to IP-BC. It is followed by a tabbed series of sections on course details. Page links provide additional details.
Note: The IP-BC course is offered here on our LMS once you select a LEVEL and log-in to your private library.
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IP-BC demystifies patenting with logical, non-legalese forms/checklists, dynamic utility compliant invention disclosures, & videos. Accelerate down the patent learning curve on your pathway to patentship. Be first-to-file, right-first-time. When you take TSM into the "IP corridor of uncertainty"...you'll be SAVVY about which doors to open, why, when, and with whom. (IP SAVVYS book & FULL Starter-Kit included in each LEVEL).
The FULL Book Starter-Kit offers an "on-ramp" to the IP SAVVYS approach and multi-level course. The kit bundles a pdf down load of the book w/content on Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARs). The FULL Kit includes Part1(MPEP demystified) & Part2(Change your patent conversations with TSM) along with a detailed FOARs analysis and TSM explanation. The FULL reader starter-kit also includes special offers to upgrade to any course LEVEL.
The book is a quick-start way to understand what you really do and don't know about securing impact patents. 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/re-optimize your patent processes. Use the book to determine whether to get the FULL Starter-Kit or an IP-BC course LEVEL for you and your team.
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:
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
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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.
Myths or facts? Things everyone agreed on & the truth about fatal office action rejections
(1) Everyone agreed it was essential to get patents with Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA).
SCA patents have true asset value because they are de-risked from FATAL Rejections BEFORE filing, publishing with clean File Wrappers.
(2) At the same time, everyone's IP conversation was a little different. Patent hunters had different skills levels and often times conflicting beliefs & patenting goals.
(3) More devastating, patent hunters were ill prepared for the "rude awakening" of FOARs during prosecution, with critical risks of abandonment after substantive patent spends.
The key to a kind awakening is to have a fool proof patent drafting method that avoids FOARS before filing with The Schwartz Method.
Everyone wanted patents to issue quickly and cleanly. CEO's expected them to offer sustainable differentiation, Finance wanted predictable budget spends, Innovators were challenged to create and pick the right Preferred-Embodiment (P-E), R&D/Engineering was expected to perfect the P-E at the lowest cost, Patent Counsel was tasked to get monopoly claims, Product Marketing had to understand the competitive landscape, and BusDev/Sales was charged with selling the "differentiated must haves". Conflicting objectives? Not really...not when everyone is in the IP Zone together.
Whether you are an innovator, patent counsel, or one of the team in-between, the IP SAVVYS book and IP-BC course are designed to close the skills gap and accelerate you down the patent learning curve, no matter your level of patenting experience.
When you close the skills gap, and everyone understands the risks of abandonment during prosecution, you will be on the path to a kind awakening, filing impact patents. Our IP SAVVYS advanced Learning Management System (LMS) provides the IP SAVVY tools, your passport for your pathway to patentship.
Leverage the IP SAVVYS content, comprised of THREE components:
->The FIRST component is the IPSAVVYS Book advanced learning management system website. It offers a way to "on-board" with Schwartz's TSM approach. It explains the basic concepts of TSM and provides access to the Starter-Kits. It also provides bulk access to the IP SAVVYS Book directly from our publisher.
-> The SECOND component is the IP-BC BoostCamp advanced learning management system website (you are on it now). It explains the on-line course and offers ways to select learning options based on your Role/Title in the utility patent hunt.
-> The THIRD component is the IP SAVVY tools with the Book, the Starter-Kits, and the self-paced IP-BC course with LEVELS for each role/title: ENTRY, INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED, and ADVANCED-PRACTITIONER. All tools automatically populate each members private library on our LMS.
Each of our IP SAVVYS learning management systems act as your company's private platform (think WiKi). You never keep any of your trade secret patent content with us. Even the 30-Day Patent Challenge is kept on your own private server as you develop your Utility Compliant Disclosure.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
It's all Worth The Price of Admission. Explore the LMS websites, then select the IP SAVVYS Book, Starter-Kit or IP-BC Course LEVEL aligned with your patent role/tasking. Guarantee your team and your company a kind patent awakening with TSM.
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
To get everyone on your team into the IP ZONE-each member needs to understand and use the same patenting language and guiding principles. They need to 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.
Explore IP-BC Based On LEVEL's 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
A company that was receiving substantial legal invoices from their IP counsel for services they did not entirely understand. Applying TSM to the software patent draft application, they "rewrote" it with counsel, carrying the burden of doing the revised draft by themselves. Together they converted an airtight UCD to a UC patent application(UCPA). The revised, MPEP compliant application was filed with a better chance of getting SCA, while saving thousands of dollars in both immediate and risky downstream legal expenses.
A start-up company used TSM to reverse engineer and analyze an issued patent they were being "forced" to pay royalties on. They deconstructed the published claims usingTSM and analyzed the Examiner's actions in the File Wrapper. By applying TSM to "re-read" the allowed specification, they were able to identify critical antecedent reference gaps for the issued claims...the university agent had expanded the scope of the claims with an amendment after filing that WAS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE SPEC...a no-no. Successfully showing their licensor that the patent was invalid, they secured a release from the university. Using the prior art, they secured their own SCA patent and were then able to sell their start-up for over 10 million dollars.
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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