I personally think these rankings have some affect on IP hiring, but it is minimal at best. I think it depends tremendously on your undergrad degree and your experience with IP law/subject matter. If a student from FSU law, who has an undergrad degree in electrical engineering and has worked at an engineering firm for 3 years before law school is applying for the same job as someone from Stanford who came straight from undergrad with a history degree … I am willing to bet the fsu law student will get the job. Granted I am ignoring the alumni factor, but even with that I think the fsu law student might get the job anyways. IP firms want more then a law degree, they want people who can understand backwards and forwards technical data. Now if an IP firm is trying to decide between a student at FSU that came straight from undergrad with a history degree and a student at GW that came straight from undergrad with a history degree, then I think the GW student wins because US News says that his/her IP education is better. Am I wrong?
>As a student going into IP, I've made the decision to go to the best school in my region, regardless of it's strength in IP. That's the advice that I've been given several times.That's exactly correct, I think. The ranking of IP school only matters, if at all, if you don't have any applicable background. For someone with a PhD in natural sciences, for instance, just go to the best law school overall. You're already going to make a killing in IP with that degree, no one will care at all if the law school you chose is ranked higher in IP. I've already encountered this in choosing Stanford over Boalt ... sure, Boalt may be #1 in IP, but Stanford's apparently #2, and I'd rather be at a private school with nicer resources. And with a doctorate in sci, it won't matter to anyone anyway./Ad.
Quote from: blocke123 on April 01, 2006, 05:36:11 PMWell to be more exact, I don't see why anyone who doesn't have an engineering/technical degree would even bother to try to get an IP. Esp. since you can't even set for teh patent bar.Aren't you conflating "intellectual property" with "patent law?"
Well to be more exact, I don't see why anyone who doesn't have an engineering/technical degree would even bother to try to get an IP. Esp. since you can't even set for teh patent bar.
Quote from: dennycrane on March 31, 2006, 11:34:06 PMI personally think these rankings have some affect on IP hiring, but it is minimal at best. I think it depends tremendously on your undergrad degree and your experience with IP law/subject matter. If a student from FSU law, who has an undergrad degree in electrical engineering and has worked at an engineering firm for 3 years before law school is applying for the same job as someone from Stanford who came straight from undergrad with a history degree … I am willing to bet the fsu law student will get the job. Granted I am ignoring the alumni factor, but even with that I think the fsu law student might get the job anyways. IP firms want more then a law degree, they want people who can understand backwards and forwards technical data. Now if an IP firm is trying to decide between a student at FSU that came straight from undergrad with a history degree and a student at GW that came straight from undergrad with a history degree, then I think the GW student wins because US News says that his/her IP education is better. Am I wrong?pretty no firm wants someone with a history degree, period. you have to have a technical degree or they wont even look at you. from experience I can tell you that even an applied math degree with a billion physics credits isnt what they are looking for
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