Public Interest IP

LaBarrister
Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:08:52 +0000

Just to specify, I have a ton of great experience working for non-profits out of the country in undergrad, and leadership experience is my strong point. Not only that, but I enjoy it, and I’m good at it. I want to do public interest work when I graduate law school. But I also think IP is interesting, because the subject matter can be technical and I want to use the skills that I picked up in engineering undergrad.

So you can see how I’m wanting to mesh my skills/interests: engineering, leadership/public interest, writing/lawyering. To use these skills, will I have to split it up, by being a patent prosecutor who puts in a lot of pro bono hours, or is there some specific full-time job that incorporates IP work with public interest and leadership?