Hello, fellow Patent Cooperation Treaty enthusiasts! Over the next few weeks I will be presenting fifteen free-of-charge webinars of updated training on the PCT. I will now describe what inspired and enabled this upcoming series of webinars.
It will be recalled that in 2022, the firm of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner and the SLW Institute invested an enormous amount of time, energy, and money to sponsor the 2022 Virtual PCT Training Seminar. This was a series of fifteen webinars over a series of several weeks, presented by yours truly and attended by many hundreds of PCT enthusiasts from over forty countries, on every continent except Antarctica. If you are reading this page, I’d guess that you attended at least one of those webinars which I call “the Schwegman lectures”. This was yet another in an endless number of ways that the Schwegman people have supported the patent community.
Even now it is possible to binge-watch the Schwegman lectures. A focused and determined (and caffeinated ) PCT enthusiast could work through the Schwegman lectures over a span of fourteen hours. (Over the past three years, many hundreds have done just that.)
Now, thanks to the World Intellectual Property Organization, this series of fifteen webinars will be brought up to date and will be presented over the next few weeks.
One of the enablers for this exciting series of upcoming webinars was the remarkable set of four PCT Seminars that took place recently at the USPTO’s four regional patent offices:
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- San Jose, California — Friday, September 12, 2025, USPTO Western Regional Outreach Office
- Denver, Colorado — Tuesday, September 16, 2025, USPTO Rocky Mountain Regional Outreach Office
- Dallas, Texas — Friday, October 24, 2025, USPTO Southwest Regional Outreach Office
- Detroit, Michigan — Tuesday, October 28, 2025, USPTO Midwest Elijah J. McCoy Regional Outreach Office
I had the honor to join six WIPO colleagues (Hanna Kang, Yun Joo Lee, Jiao Mo, Lingfei Bai, Jean-Marc Vivet and Pascal Piriou) on the faculty of these four seminars. It was a wonderful collaborative experience. We received positive feedback from the hundreds of in-person attendees and the hundreds of virtual attendees.
For me personally the experience of traveling across the United States with these WIPO colleagues for these seminars was inspiring. I had the pleasure to renew friendships with Hanna and Pascal and to make new friendships with Yun Joo, Jiao, Lingfei and Jean-Marc. Each of these colleagues gave me a new perspective on one aspect or another of the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
This experience prompted me to tackle the work of bringing the subject matter of the Schwegman lectures (presented three years ago) up to date. And now you will have the opportunity in the next few weeks to attend fifteen fresh and up-to-date lectures about the Patent Cooperation Treaty. And it will all be free of charge, because of generous sponsorship from WIPO.
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