“Unofficial Standard Study Course for Patent Bar Exam” PLI S1

Bess Ho
3 min readMay 3, 2023

PLI Series 1

Industry Standard

PLI is the industry standard study course to prepare for USPTO Patent Bar Examination.

Why Posting

Preparing for the Patent Bar Exam using PLI is a subject that is hardly covered by many law students or lawyers. Even IP Watchdog’s Advice on Patent Exams goes way back to 2013. Reddit posts and Discord messages are fragmented into hundreds of discussion threads. You may find it tiring to shout for help on platforms such as Reddit and Discord where you wait for your luck to get some responses and wait for days and weeks for a decent reply. It’s time for a trained engineer to summarize and document the details in a practical way.

What is PLI

PLI is a publishing house. For the patent office exam, it offers both Home Study Course and Live Course. The live course offers three times a year. The live course is an 11-day webcast with 8 half days of classes where you prepare to attend for two weeks. The live course offers the home study course at no extra cost. The Home Study Course is 24/7 with recording videos.

Why PLI

The patent bar’s passing rate has slowly declined over the last 10 years slipping around 45%…

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Bess Ho
Bess Ho

Written by Bess Ho

Product Executive designs during the day and paints at night

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