BAR/BRI Patent Bar Review - General Information

BAR/BRI Patent Bar Review Course Information

BAR/BRI Patent Bar Review focuses on one thing: helping you pass the exam the first time. Our schedule is unparalleled. Whether you know nothing about patent law or are a seasoned patent professional, our logically organized six-day program will teach you everything you need to know to pass the Patent Bar. Simply put, we offer you six days to success on the Patent Bar Exam.

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All course materials and lectures are updated so that you will learn and understand all changes to the law based on the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, Eighth Edition, Revision 2.

Classes meet from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. daily. After each class and up to the day of the exam, BAR/BRI Patent Bar Review’s exclusive Paced Program™ gives you a study schedule to guide you through the intricacies of the bar exam process at a manageable pace.

We also offer the Q & A Clinic™, an exclusive BAR/BRI Patent Bar Review service. The Q & A Clinic offers individualized answers to questions throughout our course until your exam date. If you have any questions of a substantive nature arising from BAR/BRI lectures, outlines, handouts, or testing materials, you may submit them to BAR/BRI’s editorial staff via e-mail or telephone.

The daily course schedule is as follows:

Day 1

Introduction to the Patent Bar Exam
Patentable subject matter, including utility, plant, design, and biotechnology patents (35 U.S. C. 101 and MPEP Chapters 1500, 1600, 2100, and 2400)
Written description, enablement, and best mode requirements (35 U.S.C. 112)
Ownership and assignment of applications and inventions (MPEP Chapter 300)
Representative of the owner or inventor and the rules of ethical conduct (37 CFR Part 10 and MPEP Chapter 400)
Secrecy, access, national security, and foreign filing of applications (MPEP Chapter 100)
Receipt and handling of mail and papers, including electronic filing of documents (MPEP Chapter 500)
Duty of disclosure (MPEP Chapter 2000)

Day 2

Patentability (MPEP Chapters 2100 and 700)
35 U.S.C. §§102(a)-(g), anticipation
35 U.S.C. § 103, obviousness
Domestic and foreign priority

Day 3

Types, cross noting, and status of applications (MPEP Chapter 200)
Patent application publications
Statutory invention registrations (MPEP Chapter 1100)
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (MPEP Chapter 1800)
Parts, form, and content of applications (MPEP Chapter 600)

Day 4

Examination of applications and the examination process in general, including requests for continued examination(MPEP Chapter 700)
Restrictions of inventions in applications and double patenting (MPEP Chapter 800)
Allowance of an application and issue as a patent (MPEP Chapter 1300)
Patent terms and extensions (MPEP Chapter 2700)

Day 5

Appeal (MPEP Chapter 1200)
Protest (MPEP 1900)
Interference practice (MPEP Chapter 2300)
Matters handled by various PTO officials and miscellaneous issues (MPEP Chapters 1000 and 1700)
Prior art, classification, and search (MPEP Chapter 900)
Maintenance fees (MPEP Chapter 2500)
Correction of patents and reissue (MPEP Chapter 1400)
Citation of prior art and reexamination of patents (MPEP Chapter 2200)
Inter-partes reexamination

Day 6 is our exclusive workshop day. We give you two workshops to help bring together the 5 days of substantive lecture: workshop one is the Claims Drafting Workshop and workshop two is the BAR/BRI Patent Bar Review Simulated Exam. No other patent bar review offers you workshops like these.

The Claims Drafting Workshop is designed to show you how to properly draft claims and how to spot correct answers on the exam. Although the exam no longer requires you to write an actual claim, understanding and knowing a properly drafted claim is tested heavily on the exam. This workshop helps bring together all the materials covered in the first five days of lecture to help you identify the right answers on the exam.
The BAR/BRI Patent Bar Review Simulated Exam is a 3-hour, 50-question multiple choice exam that will be computer graded and analyzed. Constructed from actual test questions, this exam will let you put the knowledge imparted during the course to the test. All students receive explanatory answers and will receive a computer graded analysis highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. This feedback is indispensable when you are trying to focus your studies.