Monday, November 19, 2012

90% of lawyers are business lawyers

This is a common phrase from my contracts professor. Basically contract lawyers are the pains who make you click the accept box on iTunes every two weeks. They analyze if a contract is valid and if a contract is breached what are the remedies that can be made on that contract. As far as this connects with Patents it becomes a very easy comparison. A patent can be licensed to other people, used in a business, or simply the possession of someone that cannot be broken. As someone who wants to do patent litigation a lot of my job will be making settlements when someone breaches one of my clients patents or my client breaches a patent.

If you are someone who is really good at litigating and making remedies you will always have a job and you will always be someones first call. For example a litigator will say yes I won a case, but only get 1 million dollars when in reality they could have had 5 million dollars. One million is a win but your client will not be satisfied with the outcome. If you are the guy who always makes the proper remedy in a legal team your job will always be there to negotiate and litigate these positive results.

Patent #504038 zipper

Joe

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