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IP Law, Newbee questions |
| Message Name: |
a few of the answers |
| Date Posted: |
12/19/2001 |
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Thanks for answering my newbie questions. Here's a few more. Thanks in advance...
- In IP law, do you just take the IP bar, and then practice in any state, or do you have to take a state bar in addition to the IP bar?
- If you want to work as a patent lawyer for a CORPORATION, do you have to take the STATE bar for the state in which you are staffed?
- How technically competent do you have to be? I'm crusing thru engineering school (as an ME) but I wouldn't exactly say I know my "stuff". I could solve SIMPLE stress/thermal/fluid calculations, but wouldn't say I really know that stuff. For ME's is there a fair amount of work in manufacturing/process patents as well?
- If I practice in ME, and the market suddenly closes, can I simply switch to a EE/CS specialty if I show an ability to learn the type of work, or do they actually want to see the EE/CS degree on my diploma?
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| Message: |
Although you'll run into an in house counsel who will try to squeak by on less, you should take both the patent bar and the bar of the state in which you want to practice.
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