Qualipat Selects the SyberWorks Hosted Learning Management System to Provide Patent Drafting Instruction

Waltham, MA, August 13, 2009 --(PR.com)-- SyberWorks Inc., a leader in the Learning Management Systems industry, announced today that they signed an agreement with Qualipat, Inc. to provide patent drafting instruction.

Joe Root, Founder of Qualipat Inc., says, “Qualipat offers an eight hour e-learning course, “Patent Writing for English as a Second Language” and other online courses that are designed to teach inventors, engineers and foreign legal counsel how to write US patents.

Joe Root states, “We needed a turnkey solution that we could use as a platform to run our training and consulting practice. We selected the SyberWorks Hosted Learning Management System because it was flexible and offered the all functionality we needed to operate our e-learning business. Online course creation is quick and easy. We are able to publish our courses in a matter of minutes. The SyberWorks team is very responsive and answers our questions promptly as they arise.”

Joe Root continues, “Our current course offering is developed for the Indian technology market but we are planning to expand to meet the need of technology and legal professionals in the pacific rim.”

Dave Boggs, CEO of SyberWorks, states, “SyberWorks Hosted Learning Management System is the perfect solution for training and consulting companies that need a single solution from which to run their training practice.”

About Qualipat, Inc.
QualiPat was founded in 2008, based on the idea that better drafting could produce better patents. Joseph Root, the founder, parlayed his long experience in both training and patent prosecution to devise a new, rule-based approach to patent drafting. Rather than teach the law, on the law school model, QualiPat seeks to teach patent drafting, a skill that engineers, not just lawyers, can practice with great success. The company has presented training programs to US firms as well as to patent engineers in both the US and India. For more information email at info@qualipat.com or visit the web site at www.qualipat.com.

About Joe Root
Mr. Root is an attorney and is the founder of QualiPat, Inc., a venture aimed at providing improved patent drafting training. He also serves as Chief Patent Counsel to UnitedLex Corp. a leader in legal process facilitation, with operations in the US and India. Previously, he served as Senior IP Counsel to SAP AG, a worldwide leader in enterprise management software headquartered in Germany. During the 2000 to 2002 period, Mr. Root served as Senior Vice-President and General Counsel to two affiliated public companies: Fidelity National Information Systems and Micro General Corp. His career before that point spanned a range of positions both in-house and in private practice, including General Counsel to Marquip, Inc. in Phillips, Wisconsin, and IP counsel positions with Johnson Controls, Inc. and RJR-Nabisco, Inc. He engaged in private practice with the New York office of Kenyon & Kenyon.

Mr. Root received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Wake Forest University, and a B.S. from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. Before attending law school, Mr. Root held engineering and production management positions with Corning and General Electric. He served as an Armor officer in the U.S. Army, commanding units in the US, Germany, and the Republic of Vietnam.
About SyberWorks, Inc.

SyberWorks, Inc is a leader in the custom e-Learning Solutions and Learning Management System industries for Fortune 1000 corporations, higher education, and other industries. Located in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company serves the multi-billion-dollar e-Learning market. Since 1995, SyberWorks has developed and delivered unique and economical solutions to create, manage, measure, and improve e-Learning programs at companies and organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other countries. For more information, visit us at www.syberworks.com or call 888-642-7078.

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