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The components of professional communication competency (document comprehension, writing, active listening, verbal expression, and basic foreign language literacy), principles of effective workplace communication, and common exam question types with answer strategies. The first lecture in the Workplace Competency Essentials series.
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.