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wetcoolie769

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What is a Patent Attorney and how to become one through a Chemistry degree?

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username5444612

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bump because i also want to find out about this too :rolleyes:

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LucyFL

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I've been looking into this as well and I used the IP careers website to look up about the different employers and the training process to become a patent attorney. There's good information on a lot of the company websites as well.

You need a STEM degree to apply for any of the training schemes so with Chemistry you would be eligible - it does seem competitive from what I've read though and different firms specialise in different areas so that would be worth looking into as well.

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Reality Check

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We don't have the job of 'attorney' in the UK. This is an American thing.

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artful_lounger

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Original post by Reality Check

We don't have the job of 'attorney' in the UK. This is an American thing.

This is I think the one exception where it does get used - it doesn't refer to a lawyer as such though, but someone with a STEM background that works in a sort of legal context writing up patent applications!

Original post by wetcoolie769

What is a Patent Attorney and how to become one through a Chemistry degree?

Start by looking here:
https://ipreg.org.uk/what-is-an-attorney/becoming-an-attorney

Essentially after you get your degree you'll need to look for I guess trainee positions in the field either in large companies that might have an in house department dealing with that (big pharma companies I imagine primarily), or at a specialist company that does that work as a third party for other companies. Either way, not something you probably will need to look much into until you're already at uni, and your uni's careers service might be able to help provide more advice then too.

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Reality Check

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Original post by artful_lounger

This is I think the one exception where it does get used - it doesn't refer to a lawyer as such though, but someone with a STEM background that works in a sort of legal context writing up patent applications!

Thanks for that. It's still horribly ugly though, so I shan't use it :laugh:

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lucabrasi98

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Original post by LucyFL

I've been looking into this as well and I used the IP careers website to look up about the different employers and the training process to become a patent attorney. There's good information on a lot of the company websites as well.

You need a STEM degree to apply for any of the training schemes so with Chemistry you would be eligible - it does seem competitive from what I've read though and different firms specialise in different areas so that would be worth looking into as well.

It's extremely competitive indeed. There's a relatively low amount of IP firms in the country. And those that do recruit trainees (not all do) will only take in 1-6 people per year. There can be 200+ applicants per place for London offices.

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oMatt

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Original post by wetcoolie769

What is a Patent Attorney and how to become one through a Chemistry degree?

The replies above all provide good resources for answering your questions, but if you have any more specific ones then let me know (I just completed my first year of being a trainee patent attorney)

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