{"id":1228,"date":"2016-02-15T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2016-02-15T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:12:57","slug":"im-late-im-late-for-a-very-important-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2016\/02\/15\/im-late-im-late-for-a-very-important-date\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m late! I\u2019m late! For a very important date!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A post from student blogger Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First things first, dates are important when it comes to patent law.\u00a0 A beginner\u2019s tip: find out all the important dates on the first meeting you ever have with a client.\u00a0 Know if your client filed a provisional patent, offered their product for sale, or publically disclosed it at a conference or something similar.\u00a0 Whatever you do, just remember to find out those types of dates.\u00a0 These become very crucial and you don\u2019t want something like missing a deadline to ruin your chances of getting a patent.<\/p>\n<p>Well now that I got my rant out of the way I\u2019ll tell you about my experience so far with my outside mentor.\u00a0 The students in this program are given a practicing patent agent or attorney to help us write the specification for our disclosure.\u00a0 They are basically giving us feedback on each section we write in order to draft a complete patent application.\u00a0 Not only can we ask for their feedback but we can ask them about their jobs too.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been able to ask my mentor about his path to becoming a patent attorney and how he\u2019s enjoyed it all these years.\u00a0 I like hearing everyone\u2019s journeys to becoming patent agents\/attorneys.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to receiving feedback from my mentor throughout the semester so that we can make my application unbreakable.<\/p>\n<p>I also just wanted to throw in how awesome the basketball game was on Saturday.\u00a0 Notre Dame had a great second half and beat UNC.\u00a0 It was an extremely exciting game, and I\u2019m glad I was able to go.\u00a0 For anyone that comes into this program you should really try and go to at least one game.\u00a0 The tickets are free for students and you just have to sign up when the ticket window opens.\u00a0 Most of the time it turns into a lottery when a lot of students sign up, but you can get lucky and be picked!\u00a0 The student section is quite the experience.\u00a0 There is so much excitement and cheering and fighting Irish spirit!\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely worth it and you can even get free stuff like a shirt or colorful poms.\u00a0 Who doesn\u2019t love free stuff!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post from student blogger Nicole First things first, dates are important when it comes to patent law.\u00a0 A beginner\u2019s tip: find out all the important dates on the first meeting you ever have with a client.\u00a0 Know if your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2016\/02\/15\/im-late-im-late-for-a-very-important-date\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1228","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\/1228","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=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}