<p>^ That’s right, and for that reason patent law tends to be its own little world. “IP” law encompasses a lot more than patent law – including copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and licensing (including patent licensing, for which you do not need to be a member of the patent bar).</p>
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<p>Kid, you got a lot to learn!</p>
<p>By the way, your various target jobs involve very, very different skill sets and ways of spending time. Consulting and hedge fund management, for the young people involved, generally require tons of math and long hours spent doing quantitative analysis. Corporate lawyers deal with words much more than numbers (although the good ones know numbers, too), and even junior lawyers need excellent people skills. IP lawyers are basically a subset of corporate lawyers. (“Corporate” law is usually sort of a general term covering a bunch of business-related subspecialties. It also usually means transactional or planning work, not litigation. IP lawyers are also generally split between transactional lawyers and litigators.)</p>