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I am not your lawyer. I am acting as a teacher now.
I am teaching scientists and engineers how to work for lawyers. I am not offering legal services. If you are looking for someone to act as your lawyer, you have come to the wrong place. You should not disclose any confidential information to me.
If you hire a lawyer and they engage me to teach engineers and scientists how to provide process based deliverables to your lawyer on your behalf, that might allow some privilege to you via your relationship with your lawyer, but that depends on a number of factors which your lawyer should discuss with you. Under no circumstances should you disclose confidential information directly to me or anyone else without gaining approval from your lawyer in advance.
These teaching materials or comments made in class or in this blog are not intended as and should not be interpreted as legal advice or opinion. They do not create an attorney-client relationship with me or anyone else. Do not act upon any information learned on this blog or in any course without seeking the advice of an attorney. This blog and these course materials do not represent the current state of the law and do not include all issues relevant to the various topics. These materials are merely teaching aids to help students learn a subset of issues that may be worth noting to a report-requesting lawyer in a report.
If any document or process is used outside this teaching domain, any report generated therefrom must be delivered to a report-requesting lawyer in order to avoid unlawful practice of law. It is unlawful practice of law for a non-lawyer to perform legal services directly for the public. Report requests should only be accepted from lawyers licensed to practice in the relevant legal domain. The report-requesting lawyer must remain in control and must determine whether any of the issues spotted by an engineer preparing a report have any legal merit. These course materials are not represented to be fit for any particular purpose and therefor, no person should perform any services described in these course materials unless they are under the direction and control of a properly licensed and competent report-requesting lawyer.
Any certification issued to a student, certifies only that (1) the student holding the certificate has successfully completed a course created by me (Dan Bell) and (2) the student scored well enough on a final examination to be deemed “certified by me.” The certificate does not imply anything else. I have not sought approval from any private, public, or government entities for the course materials and thus the word “certification” or “certified” only implies my personal approval of an individual student’s performance in one of my courses. I am a computer science (BS) and law graduate (JD) from Arizona State University (USA), and I have also worked at a well-respected US patent law firm. If you would like to speak to a US lawyer who has engaged me to teach his team, please let me know. The past is a good indication of the future. Although I am maintaining my membership in the Washington State Bar, the Oregon State Bar, and the United States Patent Bar, I will not be acting as your lawyer. I am only teaching presently.
If you have come here to learn about patent litigation and prosecution processes and you agree to all of the above and you agree: (1) that I am not your lawyer, (2) to not disclose confidential information to me, (3) to not perform trained processes directly for the non-lawyer public, and (4) to not disclose these training materials to anyone without my advanced written permission, then you have come to the right place. Welcome to your future!! Dan Bell
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