Draft/file better Utility Patents with IP SAVVY Tools:
The Utility Patenting for IP SAVVYS Book (IPSAVVYS)
"Close the skills gap among your key patenting players and accelerate down the patent learning curve together with Utility Patenting for IP SAVVYS. The book is a must read for anyone in the utility patent hunt, from Innovator to Patent Counsel, including the CEO. The book focuses solely on utility patenting and explains the complete Schwartz Method."…David Charles Schwartz, author & course creator
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Embrace The Schwartz Method (TSM), the standard for Utility Patenting Drafting
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Read the IP SAVVY Book in our Starter-Kit
- The book is part of the IP SAVVY Tools
If you want to save >70% of your utility patent expense, especially during prosecution, get started with the IP SAVVYS Book.
- Use the tabs below to better understand the "IP SAVVYS approach" to utility patenting.
- Enjoy delivery of your book by logging into your own private library on our advanced Learning Management System using the log-in tab above.
Move your team into the IP-Zone with TSM...earn your patent stripes together... secure impact patents.
Use this website to learn more about IP SAVVY Tools, specifically the book. The tab selector below offers details about The Schwartz Method. Use the Book Starter-Kit offers below and join our many satisfied customers who have already taken Schwartz and TSM on their journey through the IP corridor of uncertainty.
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Our book and course focus solely on drafting utility patents
- Discover why TSM Utility Compliant Invention Disclosures are best at capturing non-obvious elements of your preferred embodiment.
- Be surprised at how non-provisional patent applications are complete at the same time as the market ready product, de-risked from Fatal Office Action Rejections BEFORE filing.
- Simplify prosecution by not having to add new matter or change claim scope since TSM drafted patents were readily reviewed, definite, unambiguous, with properly scoped claims.
- Benefit from being first to secure a notice of allowance with patents that publish with clean file wrappers.
- Realize the benefits of using Schwartz’s critical thinking guidance and tips to re-focus all of your patenting conversations. Adopt TSM for your entire invention disclosure, drafting, filing, and prosecution work flow.
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Welcome Utility Patent Champion (UPC)
About Your IP SAVVY Book and Starter-Kit Offers
Get IP SAVVYS BOOK
It provides the complete "Utility Patenting for IP SAVVYS book w/Part1- MPEP demystified & Part 2- Drafting using TSM (218pp pdf & eBook). In one sitting, learn the in's and out's of changing your conversations with both Patent Counsel & the Examiner. The book is delivered in your private library on our LMS. PDF $12.95
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It includes Part1 of IP SAVVYS (pdf) which provides an explanation of the gold standard MPEP utility patenting requirements in simple, non-legalese. It includes an introduction on how to avoid Fatal Office Action Rejections (FOARs) before filing, using TSM. Access on our LMS. FREE (no CC)
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The FULL Starter-Kit includes the complete "Utility Patenting for IP SAVVYS" book (both Part 1 & Part 2 pdf & eBook). It includes a detailed explanation on how to avoid FOARS before filing. You will be drafting & filing on your invention in less than 30 days using your own IP. Access your FULL Starter-Kit on our LMS. $19.95
If you are a Patent Counsel or Venture Capitalist Utility Patent Champion, these starter-kits are for you:
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What is TSM? The Schwartz Method
Back to topThe Schwartz Method is a one-of-a-kind, MPEP (Manual of Patent Examining Procedures) compliant utility patent drafting technique, developed by Schwartz and taught in the IP SAVVYS book and IP-BC course.
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.
Why Use TSM?
Back to topWhen you learn and apply TSM you will never give Patent Counsel a simple Invention Disclosure(ID) again. If asked for a simple ID, provide a TSM Utility Compliant Disclosure (UCD) instead.
- TSM ensures your lead inventors understand what a utility compliant disclosure (UCD) is comprised of so they can review final drafts and ensure claim scope is tied to an unambiguous and definite specification.
- TSM formulated patents de-risk from FOARs before filing and prosecute to Notice Of Allowance (NOA) without adding new matter, publishing with clean file wrappers.
- When your TSM certified patents issue and are scrutinized, they stand the test of time and persist as real assets with Strategic Competitive Advantage (SCA).
If you organize your utility patenting processes using TSM, your conversations with your IP team, Patent Counsel, and the Examiner change for the better.
You focus and engage solely on the substantive, patentable matter that has the most value, using clearer, positive, unambiguous, and definite language.
Use the IP SAVVYS approach to patenting and quickly see how to save more than 70% on drafting and prosecution expenses.
How Does TSM Work?
Back to topHow? TSM is integrated into your product life-cycle, allowing you to 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.
TSM Playbook: Get Everyone Into the IP-ZONE
Back to topYou're in the IP-ZONE when all understand the requirements for MPEP compliant filings. TSM’s universal language and guiding principles are your pathway there. When everyone on the team learns and applies the same IP SAVVYS/TSM playbook, you’re there.
- Best way to start: Get the FULL Starter-Kit (includes the book)…assign it as reading to your team - then review lessons learned.
- Ensure that your lead inventors understand how a complete disclosure must include at least one clearly formed unambiguous and definite “layman’s claim” that they understand.
- This single transformation in "group think" will change all of your patenting conversations on your “pathway to patentship”…the sequence of steps to final draft review, approval, filing, and successful prosecution .
- You will be able to complete and approve final drafts without hesitation, with patent invoices that are readily understood and tied to authorized, substantive matters.
- You will submit claims on only true/winning preferred embodiments, the single and most important step you will take to avoid adding new matter, eliminating ugly and expensive prosecution at the patent office.
- When you discuss TSM filings with your Examiner, seeking a Notices of Allowance (NOA), you will emerge from the fray with a clean File Wrapper (FW).
Use TSM every step of the way to secure your biggest cost reductions…on greater than 70% of your patent spend…win the race by integrating TSM into your product development life-cycle.
Your Author is David Schwartz
Back to topSchwartz is a serial innovator, pro se sole-inventor, and was holder of a portfolio of global utility patents including the first patent on a "surface computer". As a successful entrepreneur, he founded 3 start-up companies and licensed his patents world-wide.
David authored IP SAVVYS to explain his entire TSM method, based on direct experience pro se, drafting, filing, and prosecuting to notice of allowance over 250 claims across diverse subject matter classifications.
Previously only available in his self-paced, multi-level IP-BC patent drafting course, he shares the secrets of how to secure airtight utility patents using his TSM technique in this 218pp, one-sitting read. IP SAVVYS will become one of your most important desk reference books next to Nolo’s Pressman “Patent It Yourself”.
Schwartz is not an attorney and that is the reason this book is complementary to other patent resources crafted by legal shamans. He delivers the “Inventor Point of View” on utility patenting in straight, no nonsense, non-legalese language. Use his IP SAVVY tools to demystify utility patenting and re-focus otherwise expensive “conversations” with Patent Counsel and Examiner.
- IP SAVVYS provides a complete explanation of The Schwartz Method (TSM) for utility patenting with all forms and steps.
- IP SAVVYS shares the secret sauce of patent drafting so you can talk to your Patent Counsel and the PTO Examiner in language they understand.
- It discloses the trade secrets of how Patent Counsel and Examiner really work so you can turn the tables upside down.
As champion, read it in one sitting, share it with your team, and get everyone into the IP-Zone...as IP SAVVYs.
Schwartz, a gifted instructor, originally known for creating, teaching and delivering the complete, on-line, multi-level Intellectual Property BoostCamp course (IP-BC) is now recognized as the author of the all-in-one IP SAVVYS book, sharing the universal language and guiding principles for drafting high impact utility patents.
Summary: Know the Rules of MPEP Compliance
Back to topIP SAVVYS ensures, upfront, that everyone is on the same page about MPEP (Manual of Patent Examination Procedures) utility patent compliance.
TSM is for the champion innovator/inventor on the utility patenting team, as well as for all the IP hunters in-between.
Use TSM to follow Schwartz's ABC rule: Always Be Claiming.
In your "race to the Patent Office” take the time, in just one sitting, to ensure everyone learns the universal patenting language and guiding principles of the Patent Counsel and Examiner “shamans”.
Take advantage of Schwartz's easy to understand, non-legalese explanation of MPEP patent compliance. Then, see how TSM is used to draft invention disclosures that are utility patent compliant. Secure finally approved drafts that are de-risked from FATAL OFFICE ACTION REJECTIONS (FOARs) BEFORE FILING.
Use IP SAVVYS to make sure you know what you thought you knew, and to learn what you really need to know about airtight utility patent preparation.
- IP SAVVYS delivers a complete, stand-alone explanation of The Schwartz Method (TSM).
- The book includes all of the checklists and forms you will need to draft final patent applications that avoid Fatal Office Action Rejections.
- See how to make utility patent compliant disclosures and non-provisional filings faster than you thought possible.
-> Use the book to "re-focus and re-start" your race to the patent office...so you can be First-To File...Right-First-Time.
-> Use the book as a pre-read/pre-requisite for the IP-BC course level most closely aligned to your utility patenting role and tasking.
Testimonials
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 than one year to file my patent. I'll be giving your book to my main teammate and co-inventor this week so we can both get on the same page.
I am so grateful to have found this resource along my patenting journey. By taking on the role of IP champion, with access to IP-BC/Advanced-Practitioner, I can credential my team to get us all into the IP-zone together.
The book is a great tool, but in combination with the course truly amazing.”
Engineer and innovator
Dave taught our inventors, research - development, and engineering folks how to structure Invention Disclosures
for exchange with patent counsel as well how to ask for only substantive work. We finally understand our invoices and are saving bouquet dollars on our patent spend.
CEO of IP Centric Company
Intrapreneur at a technology company
"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, it's first-to-file. This book gave me a comprehensive overview of utility patenting in language I could understand. The course helped me apply my new understanding of MPEP, using the the Schwartz patent rubric. Now I'm in charge of my future, filing fast, structuring and managing patent counsel tasking, and finally understanding and appreciating patent counsel invoices".
CEO of IP Centric Company
I’ve seen a transformation in how clients are providing complete,
timely Invention Disclosures that are utility patent compliant. Our clients are talking to us as IP savvy innovators. Thank you, Dave!
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The IP SAVVYS Starter-Kit provides a complete explanation of TSM as taught in the multi-level IP-BC Course. The IP-BC Course provides more in-depth treatment and is structured in LEVELS for each "role/title/tasking" on your utility patenting team.
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