{"id":1134,"date":"2015-09-16T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2015-09-23T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:39:51","slug":"call-me-sometime-when-you-have-no-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2015\/09\/16\/call-me-sometime-when-you-have-no-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Call me sometime when you have no class"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cannon_rock\"<\/a>A post from our student blogger Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

So today I decided to focus solely on our Patent Law and Prosecution class.\u00a0 For those of you that don\u2019t know, Patent Law and Prosecution is here to help you with an understanding of the legal base of the US patent system.\u00a0 It will help you become familiar with MPEP sections important for the practice of a patent agent.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0I would like to start off by saying all of our teachers are hilarious, and today I\u2019m going to focus on our funny prosecution teacher.<\/p>\n

He really knows how to make the class interesting and keep us focused.\u00a0 My favorite part of his class is when he shows us examples of patent applications related to the topic being discussed.\u00a0 Some of them are so ridiculous and funny you wouldn\u2019t believe how kooky people are. \u00a0Either that or they just have way too much time on their hands and nothing to spend their money on.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take application 11\/161,345<\/a> for example (I say application because it was never patented, only published).\u00a0 First off the title is Godly Powers.\u00a0 Yes you read that right.\u00a0 Someone actually tried to get a patent for godly powers, but beware if you\u2019re a magician because he doesn\u2019t like you!\u00a0 This patent is definitely worth reading so I would read it if I were you!\u00a0 Another patent we looked at was patent 3,963,275 Method of Breaking Free-Standing Rock Boulders.\u00a0 The title doesn\u2019t seem too bad until you see the picture!\u00a0 A canon? Who uses canons to break rocks?\u00a0 The patent was from 1976, but I\u2019m pretty sure we stopped using canons in the 1900\u2019s.\u00a0 There were others as well, but I won\u2019t spoil his class by giving away all the funny patents he likes to show.\u00a0 You\u2019ll just have to wait and see for yourself!\u00a0 And by that I mean come here and become part of the Notre Dame Patent Law family!<\/p>\n

Another thing that\u2019s great about his class is when we do patent bar questions from old patent bar exams.\u00a0 He wants us to be ready for the real exam, and what\u2019s even better is he makes you real nervous during class because you don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to call on you or not.\u00a0 But don\u2019t freak out too bad if he does, because he will help you get through the question or you can phone a friend for help!\u00a0 I find these questions very helpful and hopefully you will too.\u00a0 There are a bunch of little tips he tells us that will help with the exam so definitely take note of them!<\/p>\n

P.S. The title is dedicated to my dad because it\u2019s his favorite quote!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A post from our student blogger Nicole So today I decided to focus solely on our Patent Law and Prosecution class.\u00a0 For those of you that don\u2019t know, Patent Law and Prosecution is here to help you with an understanding … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}