| | Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:51 am | | | | Comments: 2 Views: 865 |
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As someone who successfully passed the Patent Bar Exam in 2003, I can only say what worked for me. I started studying 4 months before the exam by printing out any and all questions that I could find from previous exams. This is invaluable; as many of the questions on my exam were almost verbatim from previous exams. I did not buy any on-line "study guides", as the exam is expensive enough by itself. Also, when studying previous exams, I found that it was especially helpful to study not just which answer is the right answer, but WHY that answer is the right answer-as I found variations on previous exam questions that I could answer easily by memorizing the reasoning behind the answers to the questions. Studying the MPEP (Manual of Patent Examining Procedure) is nice if you happen to have the ability to memorize thousands of pages of rules and regulations. But what is much more useful, in my opinion, is to study where to find info in the MPEP, as you are provided a copy of the MPEP to use during the test. For example, know where to find the MPEP discussion of Rule 35 U.S.C. 103(c); know where to find the rules for the requirements of an IDS (information disclosure statement) under 37 C.F.R. 1.97, etc.
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