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A patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents.
Gerald D. Hosier (born April 1941) is an American intellectual property (IP) attorney and a patent litigator. In 2000, Forbes magazine declared him the highest-paid lawyer in America, with an annual income of $40 million.
U.S. patent 6,368,227, "Method of swinging on a swing", issued April 9, 2002, [122] [123] was granted to a seven-year-old boy, whose father, a patent attorney, wanted to demonstrate how the patent system worked to his son who was five years old at the time of the application.
In May, 2012, 60 attorneys joined the firm from Dewey & LeBoeuf. [11] [12] In 2016 Winston & Strawn became the first Chicago law firm to match the record starting salary of $180,000 for first-year associates, beginning a "salary war" among large Chicago law firms after years of no change. [13] [14]
Prior to joining the USPTO, she was an attorney with the law firm of Keker & Van Nest from 1994 to 1996, [8] when she joined Fenwick & West, where she later became a partner, before joining Google in 2003. [9] Lee was deputy general counsel and head of patents and patent strategy at Google from 2003 to 2012.
A J.D. degree is not required to sit for the patent bar, but a science or engineering degree is required. Lawyers who pass the patent bar exam may refer to themselves as a patent attorney (rules of legal ethics prohibit lawyers from using the title "patent attorney" unless they are admitted to practice before the USPTO). While patent lawyers ...
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