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Three types of lawyers: admiralty, generalists, specialists (patents)

Courses from PLI (or buy it from a friend)

TAKE IT BEFORE MARCH! (2011 Act provision goes into effect)

No one knows score, or past fails.

How diverse is the clientele at the firm?

Is it attributable to a single client (i.e. one Midtown firm does 85% Apple)?Key to law firm is billable hours

Wratch up the hours and pay (its very difficult to get used to)

Erik: good to join an engineering company first for a couple of years.

Options are either law firm or in-house.

Law school workload is like Intro to Engineering at Cornell: curved to a C-

Training you to labor under immense volume of work.

Prosecution

Steven: worked with Prof. Terrell with graphene lubrication patent

Columbia Jeff Searslaw firms

Talked with Prof. Terrell over the phone three times over course.Lot of up-front work: read enough, talk intelligently.

Read a lot of patents, not scientific papers (not as technical)

Read references cited against you

Copywrite/ Clearance

Review of product

Claims that exist

Market infringibility

Patentability

Determining freedom to operate

Looking at and analyzing tech specificationsReading other peoples patents

ex) GE counsel

Stage 1: Prosecution (~around 3 months)

Stage 2: Copywrite/ Clearance

Stage 3: Litigation/ Licensing (attorney)

Eric:

start with prosecution

read other patents

not as detailed

Steven:

draft application

ask questions (interpreting) broaden coverage

flag, probe him with questions

novelty is unknown for inventors

getting out something in infancy

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cradle to grave

this professor did something elsewhere- mining

Columbia Tech Ventures

Students run searches

What prior art found as relevantAssess whether patentable

Brainstorm problems, add comments

Competitors in the field

Organization

Deadlines, who, needs of group

Client service: clients are the partners

Lisa has six clients, Eric has six partners

Do I want to be in a service profession?

Manage both projectsIncremental earnings are low

Prosecution only- Midwest, Minnesota, small firms.

Lisa: biggest firm first, to experience wider range of prosecution

Small patent boutique

Prosecution- no waxing and waning schedule

Litigation- document review (sucks you in when you are involved)

Do document review first as a first year.

If good process, good work, no explicit feedback

PILOT program subject matter reviewer with USPTO

Shadow Jeff? Inventor review

Ineraction withProcess

Economy is too uncertain. Risk management

More options

Patent literacy.