Learn how to draft, file, and prosecute higher impact Utility Patents...Right-First-Time, from the inventor point of view

Learn how by using The Schwartz Method (TSM), explained in the self-paced book (IP SAVVYS) and on-demand IP-BC course (Intellectual Property BoostCamp)

• In non-legalese, Schwartz explains and demystifies patenting rules, tactics, and best prosecution practices you and your team can put to immediate use. 
• Discover the methods, tips, and techniques shared by Schwartz, a proven innovator, with rules and conversation changing guidelines for CEO's, inventors, and their patent counsel. Finally get all players IP SAVVY, streamlining patenting budgets, reducing IP expenses, and improving patent quality.
• Embrace the IP SAVVY Tools and use TSM, the standard for utility patent drafting, to get airtight utility patents.
• It's easy to do in this on-line course with LEVELS: ENTRY, INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED, ADVANCED-PRACTITIONER aligned to role/task.
• The IP SAVVYS book is bundled with all course LEVELS.
• IP-BC was developed, tested, applied, and proven by Schwartz in his original work with FISH and NEAVE and in the pro se portfolio of over 25 utility patents he secured across a diverse set of domains.

Note: When you elect a LEVEL and log-in, your private IP-BC course library is automatically loaded into our advanced KAJABI Learning Management System along with your 218 pp book and FULL Starter-Kit detailing Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARS) and how to avoid them.

Note: Use the next section to evaluate the IP-BC course and book. Use the course outline along with the comprehensive explanation of each role/task based module and related learning outcomes. Follow the page links for all the details.

Note: We offer the IP SAVVYS book as a stand alone, comprehensive introduction. CEO's and Angel Investors find this a particularly useful place to start. Our book site can be found by following this link.

Understand FOARs

Dominoes set in motion

• Black dominoes: Invent-Draft-File
• . . . wait for Office Actions
• Red dominoes: get the FOARs VERDICT
• Will the chips stay black and fall in your favor?

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.

Why does any of this matter? It’s First-To-File now, not First-To-Invent!

The ABC Rule from TSM: Always Be Claiming...Why? Because the pyramid is flipped upside down < THEN -> NOW>

• THEN <First-To-Invent>: Before America Invents Act (BAIA) it was F-T-I. Many provisionals were filed with specifications but NO CLAIMS...they were "perfected" with new matter on conversion. Provisional claims sought priority from the first date of conception, but were often rejected, and if allowed, they were severely narrowed.
• NOW <First-To-File>: After America Invents Act (AAIA), it's F-T-F. Getting your patent application airtight, right-first-time, unambiguously specifying & claiming the Preferred Embodiment during product development, with claims that do not require adding new matter...TSM filed applications are de-risked from FOARs before filing, avoid fatal rejections during prosecution, and publish with good claim scope and clean file wrappers.

Why TSM?

Serious about patents? We were too.

It's the reason why I developed TSM, as a repeatable way to avoid FOARs before filing

...now I'm sharing it with you, in my book and course, as a way for you to succeed in the same way I did.

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".

Turn what you have into what you protect.

What is TSM?

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.

Origin of TSM explained   

With BBT as innovation timeline

Born of Trial & Error

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. 

How does TSM work?

TSM is integrated into your product life-cycle

With TSM you will always be claiming. Non-provisional applications drop out of the shoot with airtight patent specifications and claims:

• First: TSM employs what we call the Utility Compliant invention Disclosure (UCD). UCDs are different than simple Invention Disclosures. They capture non-obvious elements of your best mode preferred embodiment in language understood by your lead inventors.
• Then:  TSM iterates to select your best and final UCD for preparing a non-provisional patent application de-risked from Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARs) before filing. 
• Next: With TSM, when it's time to review your TSM drafted patent, they're more readily reviewed and approved because the lead inventors understand claim scope.
• When: the application is  filed, it's airtight and right-first-time, simplifying prosecution by not having to add new matter or narrow claims.
• With TSM You Can: enjoy being  first to secure a notice of allowance for your published patent with properly scoped claims and a clean file wrapper.
• When you get onboard: as a set of best practices, TSM can be your standard for patenting, serving throughout your entire drafting, filing, and prosecution.

Realize the benefits of using Schwartz’s critical thinking guidance and tips to re-focus all of your patenting conversations.

Each IP-BC LEVEL (Entry, Intermediate, Advanced, Advanced-Practitioner) has an eBOOK with ALL content.

All LEVELS are completely from the INVENTOR POINT OF VIEW. Augment your current legal perspective with Schwartz's critical insights. 

It's a complete course

Every LEVEL has an easy to follow road-map

• On our LMS platform
• Automatic login w/library 
• Download at will
• eBOOKs  have all content

Each LEVEL's "GPS-NAV" guide helps you thru by highlighting what's new 

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.

Benefit: Get Impact Patents

at the highest quality and the lowest cost

• Preparation fees can run $5,000 - $25,000 or more
• Prosecution fees can easily double preparation fees
• Fatal Rejections result in abandonments as total loss

Lost 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. 

Benefit: De-risk FOARs 

Before filing...This is how we do it

Integrate TSM/BBT with product development. Stop filing as an after-thought with our blueprint:

• Enable, Novel & Obvious (1,2,3)
• Focus/refine Best Mode (4) 
• Exhaustive search/redraft (5)
• Iterative de-risking w/IDS (6)
• File/prosecute DocPak (7)

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. 

Benefit: The Village Effect

Common language vs Tower of Babel 

• When everyone , from inventor to CEO we’re  "IP-Savvy", then
• Patent apps popped out of the product roadmap
• IP hunters used different tool kit components 
• All contributed to lowering IP costs

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.

Benefit: Shared Goals

"Got IP-zone"?

• Even though each of their IP GOALS differed, 
• By sharing the IP-zone, ALL "roles & titles", especially CEO found common ground
• ...and TSM worked for ALL Subject Matter classifications with it's 85%-15% rule

IP hunters can take any LEVEL and upgrade as needed. Delivered in language everyone understands, TSM has tools for every IP role/task.

Benefit: BBT as unifying model/integrates with TSM

BBT integrates TSM in the product life-cycle

• BBT ties R&D to Product Creation at T=-5
• BBT aligns product introduction w/patent filing
• BBT ties Patent Monetization to BusDev at T=0
• The underlying TSM ensures SCA patents
• TSM and BBT together, provide a reusable, repetitive iteration best practice process for your product life-cycle

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! 

Benefit: TSM lessons delivered in plain English 

Using easily understood graphical metaphors, non-legalese, and epiphany's

• IP-BC's functional benefit is it's clear lessons, delivered in a logical and consumable format, all with MPEP compliant content and SAVVY interpretations.
• Is T=0 Notice Of Allowance (NOA) a "light-switch" ?
• Do you "Turn on NOA" & mint money. NO! Why not?
• Epiphany: You have to "walk the talk" backwards to understand how to turn on that light switch.

The 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.

TESTIMONIALS

What students are saying:

• A concise method to de-risk your patent process. A comprehensive and thoughtful utility patenting course.
• I love it. Excellent. Having learned from structured teachers or teachers who teach with metaphor and structure, I think this program is great. Finally, somebody knows how to use metaphor and structured graphics to explain the patent system.
• Years ago I downloaded a copy of the Manual for Patent Examining Procedures, and found it very heavy going in trying to try to understand the process of citing the operative structure of a patent. I found those concepts buried in civil service gobbledygook. Now, with the America Invents Act, everything's changed. This course helps me walk through the MPEP and understand the new rules. 
• Wow! This is almost like boot camp. At least your're explaining it; there's no guessing. 
• I wish I had this training back in 1970 I was doing consulting work for people; inventing things as well as inventing my own stuff. Eventually I had a hand all my work off to a patent attorney... I never owned anything. All I can say now is thanks to to the author of this program. 

Vignette #2 - Coming to America

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.

Vignette #3 - The magic Orgital Pill

In 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?