Who We Are
PTI’s Patent Bar Review Course is sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute, which remains the best way to prepare yourself to ace the test. When your future is riding on the results, you need a course that delivers. That’s what PLI has been doing for many YEARS longer than ANYONE else throughout the world.
Tailored specifically for Korean applicants with Korean faculty members.
In clear, concise, right-to-the-point language, this information-packed course leads you through the intricacies — and around the traps — of the Patent Bar Exam. You’ll get the hard facts, test-taking tips, sample questions and answers, and intense practice exams that mirror what you’re going to face when you sit down to take the real thing. PatWare and PatSim software almost exactly predicted the current format of the Exam by many years. PatWare and PatSim have now been expanded and updated to play an even more critical role in your preparation.
When you attend our live course, from the very first hour of the course, you’ll benefit from our Exam-focused approach. There’s just one reason this is the essential PTO exam resource: It is simply the most user-friendly, comprehensive, in-depth, authoritative and Exam-focused course available today.
Register to take PTI’s course now, even if you’re going to attend a live course at a later date. Advance preparation is key.
PTI’s Patent Bar Review Faculty
Expert. Experienced. Exam-Focused.
John M. White
Program Chair, Principal Lecturer, and Course Author/Editor
Partner, Berenato & White, LLC
PLI’s Director of Patent Professional Development
Developer and Instructor, PTO’s “Patent Law and Evidence” course for patent examiners
Adjunct Professor, John Marshall Law School (Chicago)
Former Patent Examiner and Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
"John White is a rock star!" - Katherine Jackson, University of Houston; Houston course 2008
Matthew Stavish
President and Founder of Patent Training Institute, LLC.
Partner, Berenato & White, LLC
Original Instructor for PLI’s Patent Bar Review Course
20 years of experience with patent prosecution, litigation and client counseling
Successfully argued before the CAFC and the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
Former Patent Examiner
"John and Matt have a talent for making patent law interesting and entertaining. A rare gift, to say the least." -- Brendan Jones, Foley Hoag LLP; Boston course 2008
James R. Longacre
Founder and Principal Lecturer, PassthePatent Bar.com
Originator of the West Patent Bar Review Course
Former Academic Director and as a primary lecturer for the PLI Patent Bar Review course.
PRG’s Patent Bar Review course (1987-1994)
PRG’s Advanced Patent Prosecution and Preparation Course (1976-1993).
Former Partner, Cushman, Darby & Cushman, now Pillsbury & Winthrop, 1967, -1989; Longacre & White, 1989-1999.
Education: BS, Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University; JD, Georgetown University Law Center.
PLI’s Patent Bar Review is co-sponsored by some of the top IP law schools and organizations in the nation: George Washington University Law School, John Marshall Law School (Chicago), Santa Clara University School of Law – High Tech Law Institute, Suffolk University Law School and The Intellectual Property & Technology Law Society of South Texas College of Law.