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Most IP courses and books on utility patenting focus on “how to patent your invention”, i.e. doing it yourself. The purpose is augmenting that process to improve outcomes and save IP expenditures.

The reason why High School innovation programs are shaping the invention/patenting component around IP SAVVYS is they’ve realized an early intervention into critical thinking about inventing matters more.  

The sooner budding innovators with the ingredients to succeed at  innovation and product development understand the invention process, the sooner they realize they’ve boosted their chances of future success.

Rather than have these programs focus on "protect this one idea”,  the Schwartz book and course take a simpler point of view.  When the IP SAVVYS approach is used in a high school innovation program, the focus shifts to developing inventor judgment early.

Taking that one step alone changes the emotion (read that anxiety) and the reality (patenting is hard and patenting the right in...

The relationship of TSM (The Schwartz Method) for drafting airtight utility patents to Artificial Intelligence (AI) is tangential, but substanative in a critical way. TSM is a generative method that is suited to (1) the synthesis of a non-provisional patent application and/or (2)  the reading of a preexisting patent to determine its compliance with all MPEP rules for non-provisionals.

As a method, it is designed to provide an Augmented Intelligence (not “AI” persay) to any patent drafter or to any patent auditor...ie to a human. TSM today, taken as is, remains a human operative technique.  The current set of IP SAVVY Tools is based on this purpose designed algorithm.

Although TSM does not use AI (and therefore is not AI), it uses a generative method similar to how predictive AI applications work. If a version of TSM were to be developed, it would be comprised of the self-same method employed as the operative framework of TSM. The structured, iterative nature of how Schwartz built thi...

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Utility Patenting from A-to-Z made easy: Inventor Starter-Kits now available

Patent it almost all by yourself with The Schwartz Method (TSM) – book and course

February 18, 2025 - Savannah GA - ESERVGO, the IP division of Productive Education, announces its Inventor Starter-Kit: Learn how to draft, file, and prosecute airtight Utility Patents from A-Z. Protect your Preferred Embodiment with properly scoped claims in weeks, not months or years.

Innovators who take the lead in the protection of their intellectual property with a utility patent need to understand the patent rubric and the rules for compliance with the Manual for Patent Examining Procedures (MPEP).

Today, ESERVGO, the IP Educational Division of Productive Education – whose book Utility Patenting for IP SAVVYS, and its self-paced, on-demand course “Intellectual Property BoostCamp” are already utility patenting classics – announces the release of its Inventor S...

"Innovators are reading my book as either a first step in their patenting gambit , as a pre-read for my course, or before using USTPO/PRESSMAN. The reason why is because it helps them "know what they don't know" about the complex domain of utility patenting, clarifying and refocusing their IP workflow. What’s unique about my book is that I simplify everything about patent drafting, turning it from an art to an engineering science. Specifically, I include an inside-out explanation of how to create utility-compliant patent using the Schwartz method, all in a one sitting non-legalese read, completely as seen from the innovator point of view,” says Schwartz.

Schwartz is not an attorney. As a serial inventor and entrepreneur he created and secured a storied patent portfolio on his original idea for a surface computer, all pro se.  “I was a diligent consumer of all of the USPTO resources, as well as several editions of David Pressman’s book, thoroughly learning and applying his entire paten...

You're in the IP Zone when all involved in forming the final invention disclosure understand the requirements for MPEP compliant filings. You’re in the IP Zone when the lead inventors are engaged in approving the final claims in the patent draft for the preferred embodiment, not just patent counsel. TSM’s universal language and guiding principles are your pathway to get everyone on the same page with these critical points of understanding.  

When everyone on the team learns and applies the IP SAVVYS/TSM playbook for drafting airtight utility patents, you’re final application will have properly scoped claims aligned with an unambiguous specification…and the specification will be de-risked from fatal office action rejections. It will be definite, not ambiguous, and it will capture the essence of your "ah-ha" inventive step in the first claim.

Getting there is informed by a critical understanding of each team members patenting role and their respective goals and objectives. These can so...

My patenting life will never be the same and it’s all thanks to you Dave!

“Dave, I have carefully read your book cover to cover and I want to tell you that it was an amazing read. It was clear, well written, organized and extremely informative. Most importantly, it gave me a sense of empowerment, where I was previously feeling overwhelmed. That value cannot be measured.

You have resolved an initial concern I had with our internal counsel, who sent me a very early request for an invention disclosure. At the time, I thought, how could anyone truly understand the invention with the limited information they were looking for? After reading IP SAVVYS,  your TSM framework made so much more sense for developing our invention disclosure.

I learned the fundamental principle of TSM, The Schwartz Method, is to work on the patent draft at the same time as developing our preferred embodiment. I am now working to finish the IP BoostCamp online course.

Since we have gone public, I now have less t...

Become your company's Utility Patent Champion (UPC)

Draft, File, & Prosecute Airtight Patents . . . 

with The Schwartz Method (TSM)

This holiday, will you be your company's Patenting Champion?

Everyone plays a key role as part of the patenting team and can become the UPC: 

• CEO
• CFO
• Inventor/Innovator
• R&D Engineer
• Patent Counsel
• Product Marketing

If you're frustrated with your patenting processes because . . .

Your company is filing "Hail Mary patents" at risk of missing the 1 year rule.  You continue to receive unexpected patent counsel invoices that are opaque and off mark.  You've already spent thousands on a patent application and 3X on prosecution, without results.  

This time around you'll want to integrate TSM into your patent workflow using the IP SAVVY Tools

• To avoid having your patent issued with weak, diminished claims.  
• To avoid forced abandonment when you can't overcome final PTO rejections.
• To save upwards of 70% of your previous patent spend. 
• To a...

When you are in the early stage of any investment prospect qualification that claims to have an IP advantage in their space, a critical step in your due diligence must hinge on at least the preliminary audit of the prospect's utility patents assets.Not all VC or Angel teams have investors that are qualified to conduct the due diligence audit.

For individuals or firms that have this capability, The Schwartz Method (TSM) and his Big Bang Theory of IP Qualification (BBT) can serve to provide a uniform framework for your internal actor and the prospect company's IP liaison to ensure you are on the same page about the process. When both you and the prospect understand the questions being asked in the same language and with the same meaning, the respect for each other will grow along with the trust needed to get that prospect thru due diligence and open to your potential investment.

On the other hand, and in particular with smaller angel or VC teams, the IP professional that can represent ...

Attention-now hear this...align your patenting goals for a Kind Awakening:

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.

TSM Boost Utility Patenting for a Kind Awakening

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 unde...

You can get the claims you seek by embracing the IP SAVVYS approach 

The risk of a “Rude vs Kind Awakening”

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.