A very good doorstop, or two PCT training books

What weighs more than two kilograms (more than 4½ pounds), is more than four centimeters thick (more than an inch and a half), costs about twenty dollars, contains two of every presentation slide from my recent fourteen-hour webinar series of advanced training on the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and can serve as an extremely functional doorstop?  The answer is, of course, two of the books at right, duct-taped together. 

By way of background, as most readers of my blog know, I recently delivered fifteen webinars of advanced training about the Patent Cooperation Treaty, sponsored by the patent law firm Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner PA.  The Schwegman firm, following a long tradition of service to the intellectual property community, provided the live webinars free of charge.  Video recordings of the live webinars have been edited into final form and are available for viewing at the links below.  Yes, a determined viewer could binge-watch fourteen hours of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, all free of charge!

In the 44-year history of the PCT, there has never been a free-of-charge audiovisual training resource on the PCT of such lengthy duration.  (It will be left for posterity to judge whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.)

Did you attend any of these live lectures?  Did you somehow get through all fifteen of the lectures?  What advice if any do you have for someone who is considering watching the recordings?  Please post a comment below.

To make best use of this free-of-charge fourteen-hour training resource, the diligent student will of course want to have continuously at hand a complete set of the presentation slides, printed out so that he or she can take notes.  These, too, can be gotten free of charge, at the links below.  Ask yourself how much money you would be spending on paper and on ink cartridges for your printer if you were to print out these fifteen slide decks, which add up to 367 pages.  Penaya Publishing has assembled the fifteen slide decks and some additional front matter into what may be charitably described as a ponderous volume, and is making it available for purchase at approximately the actual printing cost.  (Note that the interior pages of this book are black and white, while the slides as linked below include color.)

This tasty morsel weighs more than a kilogram and is more than two centimeters thick.  It contains all 725 presentation slides.  (Yes, that works out to just over one minute per slide, for more than fourteen hours of what some might characterize as dry subject matter.)  As I say, the publisher is making it available at approximately the actual printing cost.  Here are eleven places where you can purchase this book.

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.ca
• Amazon.co.uk
• Amazon.de
• Amazon.fr
• Amazon.es
• Amazon.it
• Amazon.nl
• Amazon.co.jp
• Amazon.com.au
• OPLF shopping cart