Patent Resources Group is an Alexandria, Virginia based patent law education company, mainly dealing in Continuing Legal Education

Continuing Legal Education

Continuing legal education is professional education of lawyers that takes place after their initial admission to the bar. In many states in the United States, CLE participation is required of attorneys to maintain their license to practice law...

 (CLE). PRG courses are attended by approximately 3,000 professionals a year. PRG is a provider of on-site and home-study Patent Bar review courses.

Notable events

• Founded in 1969 by Irving Kayton
  Irving Kayton
  Irving Kayton, Esq. is the founder of the Patent Resources Group, Inc. , which offers advanced education to patent lawyers, patent litigators, scientists and engineers. Professor Kayton is an Emeritus Law Professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia...
  
   to offer publications and courses in all aspects of intellectual property.
• Cited in the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
  Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
  The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences is an administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office , which decides issues of patentability. The Chief Administrative Patent Judge is James Donald Smith.-Structure:...
  
  's October 30, 1986 decision of Nabial et al. v. May.
• Selected by World Patent Information in 2009 as "a major resource for patent professionals to enhance their global knowledge of patent law."

Faculty

PRG's faculty is mostly staffed by practicing lawyers at well known firms such as Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, commonly known as Finnegan, is an international intellectual property law firm based in Washington, DC. Finnegan was founded on March 1, 1965 by Marc Finnegan and Douglas Henderson in Washington, DC. with the mission, "to do high-quality legal...

, LLP; DLA Piper

DLA Piper

DLA Piper is a global law firm with 76 offices across 30 countries and more than 4,200 lawyers. As of May 2011, it was the largest law firm in the world by number of attorneys. The firm's global revenues were $1.92 billion in 2009-2010. The firm is composed of two partnerships, DLA Piper...

 US LLP; Kenyon & Kenyon

Kenyon & Kenyon

Kenyon & Kenyon LLP is a law firm specializing in intellectual property law. It competes with other IP specialists, as well as most general practice firms that have intellectual property law practices. It has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley...

; Fish & Richardson P.C.; and Stoel Rives LLP among many others.