I am looking for quality training that does not require a full law degree to be able to write reasonably good patents.
I have a few I would like to file and the cost of doing it through an attorney is prohibitive. My only option is to learn to do it myself.
Our patent system isn't designed to be equitable at all. The power is entirely in the hands of those with tons of money, be it corporations or individuals. In the past couple of decades I have missed out on filing patents for inventions that, as recently as yesterday, I discovered large corporations implemented ten years after I came-up with the solution.
My new startup is based on new technology. I need to stop this cycle of working my ass off to develop innovations only to have no protections whatsoever from the well-financed. I am not in love with patents, yet, without them, in some domains, small entrepreneurs have no hope at all.
https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/using-legal-services/pr...
Note also that there are both "patent attorneys" and "patent agents". An agent can do everything an attorney can do as far as filing and prosecution, they just can not represent you in court trials, and agent fees are often lower than attorney's for the filing and prosecution stages of the process.
To get a feel for patents have a look at https://www.patentcasebook.org.
Best of luck.
If you want to monetize your inventions file a provisional patent (very cheap) and take a year actually doing something with it - attracting investment for non-provisionals, bringing it to market, etc. If you don’t intend to actually do anything with your inventions other than file patents there’s a term for what you’re describing - patent troll.