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Why You Should Continue Working As A Patent Agent, For Now
[00:00:00] I started my patent law career overseas and became fully-license here, qualifying me to take the California bar exam. Then I studied at 2 U.S. Law schools, with a strong technology background, worked a few Am Law 100 firms doing patent prosecution. Great. I managed to pass the California bar exam last year, having passed the bar exam years ago, some seem to have been setting me up particularly to fail in becoming licensed in the U.S. before finishing JD, which would explain why both schools desperately won't let me finish and several firms suddenly laid me off after considering I was to take the bar exam. I can complete all the California admissions requirements in as little as six months, or restarted my JD application again for 2022. Unemployed for a while but well employable as a patent agent or tech specialist, how should I navigate and move around those other potential roadblocks?
So I would continue working as a patent agent. And then I don't know what's going on with these law schools. Once you get your law degree, then you can work as a patent attorney. I will tell you that a lot of patent attorneys prefer to work as patent agents. Sometimes law firms may not want you to work as a patent attorney because they have to pay you more for example, but I will continue working as a patent agent.
Once you pass, then I would then the California bar, [00:01:00] then I think you can certainly get jobs as a patent attorney. So it looks, you shouldn't have too much of a problem, but in all honesty patent agents in the U.S. can do very well. So a lot of times they can make extremely good incomes and often even have more employment stability.
