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Patent Bar Exam : The Best Test Preparation and Review Course

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This book is 50% old exams (old, and current exams are available for free on the USPTO website) and 50% snippets from the MPEP (also available for free on the USPTO). The snippets are have plenty of errors (both typos and in content), its outdated, and provides almost no useful information.

It provides only the highest level of overview that doesn't come close to anything that will help you pass the patent bar. If you don't want to spring for the expensive study aids and think this is a cheap way to get some help, you're going to be very disappointed. You're much better off slugging your way through the old exams and MPEP on your own. If you write down the first sentence in every major section of the MPEP, you've just about wrote this book.

I was looking for a high-level tool to provide context as I studied for the exam, which I passed. This book didn't provide anything that wasn't already available for free elsewhere and represents nothing more than a slipshod attempt to make a fast buck. There is a need for such a book, but this isn't it. I'd recommend "Patent It Yourself" as a supplement to the various professional bar prep materials to get the big picture.

This book is not worth any money, it provides no useful information. It gives a haphazard, oversimplified short outline of the MPEP. The worse part is that the book goes on to publish two exams (the majority of the book) verbatim (questions and answers) from the USPTO website (1999 exams). I am appalled that anyone would insult the intelligence of persons preparing for this exam in this manner.

This book is just a disaster: the introduction material is completely worthless, and the old exams, are, obviously, old and outdated.

Idiotic book which tries to over simplify the complex rules. More than half of the book reprints the free material from the USPTO website Q&A. A total waste. I bought this book thinking that at the most I will lose [the money]. But after reading, I was irritated by the fact how can someone write such a book and sell it. Ridiculous !

The Patent Bar Exam is a very difficult exam and if one studied the first half of this book and memorized it, there is no way that a person would pass the exam. This book could have given some very useful tips on how to study the 3,000 page MPEP, of which the tester is responsible for knowledge of its context. The second half of the book has copies of exams that can be obtained free on-line. There is a need for a better book.

This guy basically just stole huge blocks of information from the USPTO website. Don't waste your money on this ripoff and visit www.uspto.gov instead. Amazon should pull this book off the site as a service to its customers.

If you're in law school, think of the MPEP and full PTO Exam courses as a casebook, and this book as the capsule summary out of an Emanuel's outline. What's that mean? It's a good overview of the topics with some narrow information. Good for giving you the very most important topics. It is not suitable to be the only tool you use for studying for the Patent Bar, but it is a great guide into what to study.

I would not want to rely solely on this book for taking the patent bar exam, but I thought it was a good overview of the area of patent law as well as the patent bar exam-- especially for the money. There are not many books available on the patent bar exam-- most are for laymen who want to get their own patent. This book may be a good first step if you are a little curious about the patent field and want more "meat" than a layman's book but unsure or unready for a full fledged review course costing hundreds or thousands of dollars.

This book is cryptic, outdated and does not provide a basis for understanding the neccessary analysis required for passing the patent examiners exam.

There are analyses one must understand and recognized, such as obviousness and anticipation, and the associated tests, as well claim writing etc., in order to pass the exam. This text fails in these regards, and mainly lists portions of the MPEP and other patent law statutes, in a non-intuitive manner.

I purchased two copies of this book; one for myself and another person. The purchse was was not worth the money nor the time invested in the text.