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Some free advice:

You do not need a patent to make money. A patent will do nothing but allow you to pay more money to stop others from making, using, and/or selling your invention (as defined in the claims of the patent).

Before moving forward, pay one or more practitioners to do a prior art search and get opinions as to whether they think you have a decent chance on getting a patent that will be worthwhile. More sources are better and are generally reasonably priced. Make a judgement about whether you want to spend more money to move forward.

Budget at least 10k$ for the patent. It may even cost you more than that, before it is even filed. Filing fees are under $2k in almost all instances.

Get a patent attorney or a patent agent to write your specification and claims. Don't waste your time spending time and/or money on filing something that a patent savvy professional can smash to pieces in court (or easily avoid your tactics altogether while you fight), leaving you with nothing to show for your efforts. Note that decimation of all your patenting and enforcement efforts may occur after much money is spent, even a decade after your invention is patented.

If all this sounds like too much to afford, consider reading something like this before moving forward, but I strongly suggest hiring a professional if you think protection is necessary for your invention.

Search for 'patent bar exam'.

Here are the ones I had in mind:

https://www.amazon.com/Patent-Bar-Exam-Prep-Workbook/dp/1647754364/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3QNYOO12M5IL7&keywords=patent+bar+exam&qid=1642453041&sprefix=patent+bar+%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Patent-Bar-Study-Guide/dp/B01FGOFZFE

Obviously, all 'study material' are to be considered as 'starting kits' where some are more or less relevant, depending on your current knowledge/experience.

Good luck!

Hey /u/killaflake, congrats. I have a question. I have some extra time on my hands because of the Covid crisis. So, I was thinking of doing some cramming.

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Based on your experience, how helpful would you say it would be to do some cramming? Say, cramming the contents of some of the more important chapters in the PLI binder/brainscape flashcards so as to learn that stuff by heart? Do you think that would work?

Consider flashcards-based memorization: do you think this set of flashcards are sufficient for MPEP 600, 1200 and 1800?
https://www.brainscape.com/flashcards/mpep-600-parts-form-and-content-of-appli-1452263/packs/2827707

If so, why not just cram the whole chapter for MPEP 1200, for instance?

And if we do cram, are we supposed to memorize every little detail of everything? e.g. memorize what the Choices are after receiving a Notice of Omitted Items - down to the three items required besides the petition and fee:

"1. File a petition and fee, together with the omitted items, a copy of the Notice, and if necessary, a supplemental oath or declaration, requesting that the later filing date be awarded; or
2. Do nothing in response to the Notice of Omitted Items, in which case the original filing date of the application will be maintained. The applicant is now required to amend the specification, preferably by preliminary amendment, but no new matter may be added."

Very confused.

I know that if I use various memorization techniques to cram all the flashcards, I will memorize almost all of the materials for all of the major chapters. It seems reasonable to stop there, and believe that one can just look up the rest on the day of the exam. What do you think? With nothing else to do given the Covid, I wouldn't spending an additional week or two or three just cramming and cramming.

I suppose it is not a bad idea to read through the table of contents, but how about doing more? How about cramming the contents of some of the more important chapters in the PLI binder/Brainscape flashcards so as to learn that stuff by heart? Do you think that would work?

Consider flashcards-based memorization: do you think this set of flashcards are sufficient for MPEP 600, 1200 and 1800?https://www.brainscape.com/flashcards/mpep-600-parts-form-and-content-of-appli-1452263/packs/2827707

If so, why not just cram the whole chapter for MPEP 1200, for instance?

And if we do cram, are we supposed to memorize every little detail of everything? e.g. memorize what the Choices are after receiving a Notice of Omitted Items - down to the three items required besides the petition and fee:

"1. File a petition and fee, together with the omitted items, a copy of the Notice, and if necessary, a supplemental oath or declaration, requesting that the later filing date be awarded; or2. Do nothing in response to the Notice of Omitted Items, in which case the original filing date of the application will be maintained. The applicant is now required to amend the specification, preferably by preliminary amendment, but no new matter may be added."

Very confused.

I know that if I use various memorization techniques to cram all the flashcards, I will memorize almost all of the materials for all of the major chapters. It seems reasonable to stop there, and believe that one can just look up the rest on the day of the exam. What do you guys think? With nothing else to do given the Covid, I wouldn't spending an additional week or two or three just cramming and cramming.

Effectively it looks like they are trying to claim any kind of mixture of 3 of these "bhb" salts, which isnt new and theres been products on the market that contain various combinations of these salts.

Here is an example of a product made in 2019: https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Keto-Exogenous-Management-Beta-Hydroxybutyrate/dp/B07QZT2RTK/

and has a combination of those bhb salts. How are they patenting this combination, when other people (probably hundreds) of brands have made such a combination before?

Unless i am misreading the patent?