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A strategic guide to the three subject areas of the USPTO Patent Bar Exam (Registration Examination): patent prosecution under 35 U.S.C. and MPEP, foundational IP law principles, and the science/engineering knowledge required for technical patent work — with tailored strategies for STEM and non-STEM candidates.
The US intellectual property framework, the four categories of industrial property rights compared, foundational principles of patent law including disclosure-for-exclusivity and first-inventor-to-file — Lecture 1 of the Patent Law Basics series.
The meaning and characteristics of public administration, the five core administrative values (democracy, efficiency, effectiveness, legality, and equity), the concept of the public interest, and the evolution from traditional administration through New Public Management (NPM) to New Governance — first lecture in the Public Administration Basics series.
What official documents are and their types, the structure of memos, reports, and letters in U.S. government and professional settings, and Plain Language Act writing principles — first lecture in the Professional & Government Document Writing series.
Public finance fundamentals — the four causes of market failure (public goods, externalities, natural monopoly, information asymmetry), the rationale and limits of government intervention, Pareto efficiency, and the Coase Theorem. First chapter of the US Public Finance series.
US real estate salesperson exam — key concepts in real property characteristics, valuation principles, the three approaches to value, and investment analysis metrics.
The definition and physical characteristics of real estate, how the real estate market differs from other markets, and the real estate market cycle — the first lesson in the Real Estate Basics series.
The purpose and structure of the US real estate public records system, the recording acts, title registration, and the principles that govern how property rights are publicized and protected — the first lesson in the Real Estate Disclosure Basics series.
The foundations of US social welfare law — the Social Security Act, social insurance vs. public assistance, program structure, and the federal-state relationship — Part 1 of the Social Welfare Law Basics series.
Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and measures of dispersion (variance, standard deviation, range), plus skewness and kurtosis — Chapter 1 of the Statistics Basics series.