subject: Excel In Career By Passing Patent Bar Exam [print this page] Lawyers willing to work as patent attorney must have to pass Patent Bar Exam which is conducted annually. The exam contains 100 questions with multiple choice answers. Candidates are asked to write fifty answers in the first three hours and the next three hours are given to answer the rest fifty questions. After the first three hours, the answer sheet is submitted and candidate is not given any choice to re-write the answers given earlier. Therefore, all the answers should be written well at first attempt itself.
Candidates who clear the Patent Bar Exam get registration in the bar and practice as a patent agent. Once the certification has been awarded to the candidate he can change his registration to patent attorney; however, he is required to provide a proof of good standing in a state or territorial bar to the USPTO.
Pattern in the Patent Bar Exam
There are 10 beta questions which are not counted in the patent bar exam results; however, there is no method to identify which are the questions among the hundred questions which fall in the category of beta questions. A candidate is required to earn 70% i.e. he must write 63 answers correct out of the 90 graded questions. Generally, 6 out of ten candidates clear their exam which is an attractive success ratio to encourage more number of students. http://www.capital-patentprep.com/
Whereas before June 2004, the patent bar exam was a pencil-and-paper test, today it is given on the computers. Similarly, some five years ago the exam was held in more than a dozen centers in the country; however, today it is held at more than hundred centers. The exam not only can be given at these centers near to the applicants but also in any business day. This helps candidates who have busy schedules. Such candidates now can write their exam at any prometric center in the USA. Thus, a large number of candidates have benefited from it.
Candidates appearing for patent bar exam pay two kinds of fees; the first one is an application fee, and the second one is a registration examination fee. The fees are paid at the time of the application submission at the patent office. Whereas the nonrefundable application fee is nearly $40, the computer-based examination fee is around $200. Additionally, a service fee of approximately $150 is charged by Prometric to the applicant for it provides the paraphernalia for him to write the answers online. http://www.capital-patentprep.com/
