Hey everyone, so after reading a few positive reviews about the Wysebridge review course I took the plunge and dumped $645 on the course. After a few hours of going through the course materials and practice questions I quickly realized I made a big mistake. The course material is replete with typos, poor grammar, run-on sentences, and disorganized - not to mention I think it's outdated. Now, I could be wrong about that, but they are still teaching and testing lots of pre-AIA prior art stuff - which I understand from recent test takers is that we can expect only a few pre-AIA questions on the actual exam.
They also do not seem interested in answering the chat box at all. I'm beginning to suspect that the guy behind Wysebridge has moved on to something else.
Anybody else have a similar experience?
Dear Mr. Bob:
Sorry you had a bad experience with a competing course. If it'll help, we'll offer you a discount on our course, if you want to switch. It won't be the full amount you paid, but we'll try to do right by you. (One of the benefits of being a nonprofit organization.)
Mark Dighton, Admin. Director, Patent Office Exam Course mdighton@pli.edu
PLI
I had a similar experience. It seems that the company made a good faith attempt to provide quality study material but got overwhelmed. They also offer dubious study methods, and they offer their own "interface" for searching the MPEP that is just a zip file of the MPEP PDFs that you can download from the USPTO site.
Their website appears to imply that their service is subscription based for $66/month, but that's just the price breakdown when you pay the full $645.