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	United States Patent and Trademark Office

Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2001
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PATENT EXAMINER TRAINING
Procedural Training – Mandatory for all first year examiners	Patent Examiner Initial Training (PEIT) and Introduction to Practice and Procedures (IPP) Standardized training is provided to new patent examiners to teach them the basic skills and knowledge of the patent process, practices and procedures such that they will be able to successfully examine a patent application. The examiner will also be able to provide an initial report to their supervisor on what is the claimed, as well as, the disclosed invention contained in the application so as to permit him/her to perform a prior art search. The number of courses offered each year is based on the projected number of new examiners entering the patent business unit.
Legal Training – Mandatory for all first year examiners	Practice and Procedures Lectures covering the following topics: Types of application and application requirements "Novelty" requirements "Non-Obviousness" requirements "Utility" requirements Restriction practice Unity of invention Double patenting Allowance and issue Appeals
Legal Training – Technology Center Focused	"Novelty" requirements Docket Management Part of Application USPTO Forms After Final Practice "Non-Obviousness" requirements "Utility" requirements Prior Art (special topics) Restriction Practice Response to Arguments Double Patenting Reexam/Reissue
Legal Training – Legal Lectures	Various topics offered each year
Legal Training – Legal Courses	Patent Law Evidence
Examiner Technical Training – Technology Center Focused	Biotechnology Chemical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer Software and Hardware Optics, Semiconductor, Electrical Engineering Communication Technology
Examiner Technical Training – In-house Technical Lectures	Examples: TCP/IP 3G Wireless Mobile Communication RF/Wireless Engineering DVD Technology Disk Drive operations Memory Technolgies Communications Basics 3rd Generation Cellular Display System Flat Panel Display Lecture Optical Technology Computer Architecture
Automation Training	Examples: Introduction to Computer Skills Keyboarding Skills WindowsTM NT Overview WindowsTM NT Hands On Computer Housekeeping Microsoft® Outlook Microsoft® Excel Microsoft® Word I, II, III, IV Office Action Correspondence Subsystem US Classes, International Patent Classification Codes and the Concordance Online Search Strategy Development Overview Automated Searching for Design Examiners Automated Searching for Shoe Searcher Chemical Searching for Non-Chemists Introduction to Sequence Searching Examiner’s Automated Search Tool (EAST) - Search Strategy for Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, and Biotechnology Arts Web-Based Examiner Search Tool (WEST) - Search Strategy for Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, and Biotechnology Arts Search Strategy for the Biotechnology Arts WEST for EAST Searchers/ EAST for WEST Searchers Understanding and Locating Foreign Patents Commercial Databases and Web Resources