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I'm not at the moment, but I'm going to start kind of soonish. I plan on taking it sometime in August.
How's the studying going? Are you doing a prep course or studying on your own? If you're studying on your own, what books are you using? (I've been trying to come up with my study method.)
Heck no, terrifying.
Though, I'm knee deep in mining law at 8:17 on a Saturday night, so I may have chosen poorly in life.
mining law? bleh. after taking the bar exam this summer, the thought of studying and taking another test makes me wanna vomit!
are you taking it for a current job or just to take it?? is it worth it?
@Boston - if you plan on taking it by August, you need to start working on your application by June at the latest. It takes a few weeks to get everything together (requesting official transcripts etc.). After you submit it, it takes the USPTO about thirty days to approve you (if you're Category B, if you're one of the other categories it could take longer). From your approval date you have a 90 day window to take the exam. For example, I was approved on December 8 and I have to take it by March 8.
As for prep methods, my parents offered to pay for me to take the DC course... before the FI proposed and they realized they would be shelling out thousands for a wedding. :) I'm glad I didn't though in retrospect because I'm pretty much ready to take it... without the three thousand dollar course. I bought a kit on amazon that has twelve old exams and a 160 page outline and it has been really great. It also lists the most frequently repeated questions and their answers. I've been taking the practice tests and I'm flirting with the passing line each time... which is good considering the pass rate has been as low as 20% on some exams and I still have a month to go. The publisher for the kit is Lux Veritas and its on amazon and ebay.
If your wedding is after July, I would highly recommend you wait though. :)
@hisbride - Your wedding is the day after my bday! :) I'm taking it to get a job as a patent agent while I'm in law school and to be able to do patent work other than litigation when I get out of law school next year. It's a lot of work, and taking it IN law school and while planning a wedding is pretty stupid, but under the right circumstances I think its totally worth it. My friend at school already passed it and she said within a few weeks of passing it she was getting job offers via email daily. She has a great job now (working as a patent agent, she's currently in law school too) and she only works one day a week and says she gets paid well.
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Wedding planning and patent bar prep at the same time = the worst idea of my life. Anyone else make the same mistake? Probably not, that's why I'm the blonde baby lawyer I guess. :)