{"id":31065,"date":"2021-07-06T19:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/?page_id=31065"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:29:11","slug":"national-patent-drafting-competition-uspto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/competitions-and-moot-courts\/national-patent-drafting-competition-uspto\/","title":{"rendered":"National Patent Drafting Competition (USPTO) 7120"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/about-us\/events\/2026-national-patent-application-drafting-competition\">National Patent Drafting Competition (USPTO)<\/a> introduces law students to issues arising in U.S. patent law and develops their patent application drafting, amending, and prosecution skills. Student teams will be given\u00a0hypothetical invention statements for which they will\u00a0search the prior art, prepare a specification, draft claims, and present their reasoning for patentability before a panel of judges comprised of patent examiners, practitioners, and high-profile guest judges.<\/p>\n<h3>Credits<\/h3>\n<p>Participation is worth two (2) credits.\u00a0 Students must log 90 hours total in practice and competition to earn two credits.<\/p>\n<h3>Coaches<\/h3>\n<p>Please contact <a href=\"mailto:andrew@auderieth.com\">Andrew Auderieth<\/a> &amp; Eric Phillips (<a id=\"LPlnk380602\" href=\"mailto:ephillips@slwip.com\" data-linkindex=\"0\">ephillips@slwip.com<\/a>) Tim Busse<a href=\"mailto:busse@cfd-ip.com\"> busse@cfd-ip.com <\/a>&amp; Peter Heinonen\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:heinonen@ssiplaw.com\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">heinonen@ssiplaw.com<\/span><\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>You may also contact <a href=\"mailto:deanna.burns@mitchellhamline.edu\">Deanna Burns<\/a> from the IP Institute.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/va-uspto.zfairs.com\/App?f=3390cdcb-e56e-4219-8ecc-04b79713baca\">2025-26 Competition Information:<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>Dates<\/h3>\n<h5>Regionals: March 5, 2026<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li>Format &#8211; Virtual<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Nationals: April 10, 2026<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li>Format &#8211; In Person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Registration Opens: Monday, August 21, 2025<\/h5>\n<h5>Registration Closes: November 15, 2015<\/h5>\n<h5>Team Application Submission Due:\u00a0 January 30, 2026<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Regional Competition Presentations Due:\u00a0 February 23, 2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h3>Materials<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2024_National_Patent_Application_Drafting_Competition_Rules_v1Final.pdf\">Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/va-uspto.zfairs.com\/?f=3390cdcb-e56e-4219-8ecc-04b79713baca\">Other Information<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Patent Drafting Competition (USPTO) introduces law students to issues arising in U.S. patent law and develops their patent application drafting, amending, and prosecution skills. Student teams will be given\u00a0hypothetical invention statements for which they will\u00a0search the prior art, prepare a specification, draft claims, and present their reasoning for patentability before a panel of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/competitions-and-moot-courts\/national-patent-drafting-competition-uspto\/\" class=\"more-link\">National Patent Drafting Competition (USPTO) 7120<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":0,"parent":30802,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-31065","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31065\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/competitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}