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Ip Basics: Advice On Ip Careers For Those Without Technical Backgrounds, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Ip Basics: Advice On Ip Careers For Those Without Technical Backgrounds, Thomas G. Field Jr.
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[Excerpt] If you can spend three more years in school, intellectual property offers a wide range of interesting and rewarding careers. Those without technical backgrounds, however, should not pursue an intellectual property career blindly. Unless your undergraduate degree is in a physical science or engineering -- or you have at least a masters (and probably some experience) in biotechnology, patent opportunities will be slim. As discussed in more detail below, people without technical training are more apt to deal with copyrights, trademarks and special contracts such as licenses or franchise agreements. Yet intellectual property law covering non-technical subjects is often …
Ip Basics: Advice On Ip Careers For Those With Technical Backgrounds, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Ip Basics: Advice On Ip Careers For Those With Technical Backgrounds, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Law Faculty Scholarship
[Excerpt] Full-time law school takes three years and culminates in the Juris Doctor. A J.D. from a school accredited by the American Bar Association qualifies a person to take the bar exam in any state. As mentioned above, college graduates need not pursue any particular line of study to be accepted into law school. At the University of New Hampshire School of Law, for example, over a third of our students have degrees in engineering or science, and many have had extensive experience or advanced degrees, including M.D.s and Ph.Ds. -- the last being particularly helpful for biotechnology patent careers.