Siberkhem's Free Patent Search Course
The Siberkhem patent course section is currently under construction. It will eventually be brought up with a registration page that, upon completion, will allow access to the free courses. Thank you for your patience. 20080213
The following webpages are optimized for browsers using Firefox with Javascript turned ON. Future support for IE (windows and Mac), Opera, Safari, PDAs and hand-held devices, and aural is expected (i.e., optimization for these browsers is expected later). Also, alternative languages (first French and Dutch) are planned as well.
Why review these online courses by Siberkhem? The first reason is that it's FREE! - the second is that it is UP-TO-DATE and includes cites to current online sources; therefore, you can evaluate the information as you go along to determine its accuracy - however, if you distrust such web sources as WIKIPEDIA.ORG (which was compared with Encyclopedia Britannica by Nature Magazine to be equal or superior), then you might want to take an expensive course at a warm resort at your company's expense for a similar (but possibly inferior) course for $1000-$2000 per person. It's your choice.
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who is writing this course? Answer: an experienced technical writer, ex-patent examiner, chemical engineer, and computer programmer. Most importantly, the writer of this course is
INDEPENDENT of any commercial ties whatsoever. Therefore, you can expect the content to be
UNIQUE, WELL-RESEARCHED, WELL-WRITTEN and WELL-DOCUMENTED. And if you want to learn about all aspects of patents from an independent source with these quality indicia, you have come to the right place. This is a constantly evolving subject, so expect to see
periodic updates with relevant source cites to keep you informed and up-to-date. Also, please visit the accompanying weblog giving related patent, intellectual property, and patent searching information:
Siberkhem Patent Blog.
This course is further intended to provided online training for candidates who wish to perform thorough searches and write reports in accordance with the requirements of the Accelerated Examination Support Document for the New Accelerated Examination Procedure of the USPTO [http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/accelerated/], that began on August 25, 2006.