Task # 2, lawyers, confer with your client
Lawyers: I will email you a PDF with your assigned client and their invention. Once you have been assigned your client and invention, do the following ASAP:
- To all: Your names are listed twice (2x), once as client and once as attorney to another client.
- Clients: Please contact me immediately if I have listed your inventions erroneously.
- Attorneys: Review your client’s inventions. Confer with your client about their invention. Take notes about the inventions and about your client’s knowledge of prior art, which should be included in your project file, either as notes or as a memo-to-file.
- Clients: Tell your assigned attorney about your inventions, and reveal to them any prior art that you are aware of. Do not hide the ball.
- Attorneys: Consider methods you might use to search for additional prior art, including using the Patent Office website as well as other sources (such as Google, eBay, and Amazon). Consider also keywords and search terms that may be useful.
- To all: Come to our next class prepared to discuss all of the above.
Revised Feb. 4, 2021