random but relevent (sp?)--will a masters with technical training (aka masters with thesis in biochem, physics etc..) be sufficient or do you think you need a PhD?
Quote from: SuicideNixon on April 03, 2006, 10:16:16 PMQuote 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 forstill conlfating "IP" with "Patent"
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
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?
is it just me or are those rankings completely wrong.... this is the list I found...1. University of California–Berkeley2. Stanford University (CA)3. George Washington University (DC)4. Santa Clara University (CA)5. University of Houston6. Cardozo-Yeshiva University (NY)7. Duke University (NC) Franklin Pierce Law Center (NH)9. Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent)10. Columbia University (NY)11. DePaul University (IL)12. Boston University New York University14. John Marshall Law School (IL)15. Georgetown University (DC)16. Harvard University (MA)17. Michigan State University University of Washington19. Case Western Reserve University (OH) Fordham University (NY)21. Boston College University of Minnesota–Twin Cities University of Texas–Austin24. George Mason University (VA) University of Akron (OH) University of Pittsburgh27. Washington University in St. Louis
Do a technical degree or take the patent bar. You'll smoke anyone who chose an "IP school".
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