3 Steps to change your utility patenting conversations and save upwards of 70% of your previous patent spend
If you’re reading this blog post, you are probably engaged in the utility patent quest. When you seek to optimize your sequence of steps for getting a patent filed and publishing with a notice of allowance on the broadest claim for your best mode preferred embodiment, all in the shortest period of time, at the lowest cost, and with the cleanest file wrapper…you’ve come to the right place to find out how.
If you haven’t heard about the proven Schwartz Method for utility patent drafting, filing, and prosecution, it’s time you made a prompt and effective evaluation. This blog post will get you started in that process and put you on your pathway to patentship.
Here are the 3 STEPS you will want to explore in short order. Before I share them, be sure that if you want to go down this learning curve in less than 4 hours, the IP SAVVY educational framework provides a way to achieve that goal and improve your prospects and outcomes. The things you will need to do are :
(1) Get firmly grounded in the patenting rules of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedures. Patent counsel spend 10,000 hours in this domain to become expert at the nuanced elements. If you could get the big picture scope in a 2 hour read, that could be enough to change your basic conversations with patent counsel. (IP SAVVYS book offers a FREE 60pp dissection of MPEP from the inventor point of view. If you want to take step 1 with Schwartz, just review the IP SAVVYS book synopsis and opt in for the FREE Starter-Kit).
(2) Understand the conversation changing opportunities at each stage of your patent journey. Once you decide to go after a utility patent, you will be locked into an inextricable set of tasks, beginning with drafting an airtight patent application, deciding on what type of filing you will make, handling prosecution at the patent office, dealing with after allowance issues, and finally having a clear sense of the tactics and strategies available to you once you have published claims in the market. (IP SAVVYS book PART 2 explains all of these turning points on your pathway to patentship, and what you will need to know to make the best choices about what you ask patent counsel to do, when and how to steer around the potholes. In 60pp, and another 4 hours, learn the 5 critical considerations so you can navigate these opportunities cleanly and efficiently.)
(3) Have a functional patent drafting method that will get your draft application right first time, and a way to handle each of the conversation points you will be confronted with. Once you get into the inextricable sequence of steps toward patent allowance, you will need to anticipate the specific decision points, the way they will present to you, and how to formulate the right questions and directive statements to ensure you get to your vision and end point in one piece. ( IP SAVVYS PART 2 has 15 angles on patent tactics and strategies which are must know points of information to put into your playbook on how to execute. In addition, the Appendix has a complete explanation of The Schwartz Method (TSM) for drafting airtight patents, along with the critical elements of the process, forms, and deliverables at each step to de-risk your patent application from FOARS (Fatal Office Action Rejections) before filing.
