Is it okay to hire a patent attorney that does not have a science degree
[00:00:00] Is it okay or a bad idea to hire a patent attorney that does not have a science degree?
Most patent attorneys will have science degrees.
Sometimes they will go back to school to get additional degrees or additional classes to get that experience. But it depends on the size of the firm. But in general, it's a bad idea to hire a patent attorney without a science. Sometimes math degrees can be used as well.
But most patent attorneys do need to have a scientific degree just to get just a path passed the patent bar. So that is one of the kinds of first things I would say that you need to do if you're going to hire a patent attorney they need to be admitted to the patent bar.
And then in addition to being admitted, the patent bar typically will need to have some sort of science degree or education to be admitted. You're often, it depends on the type of patch you're doing as well. Some law firms will be doing patents related to biotech and so forth.
And others will be doing them related to hard sciences, which are things like, physics and electrical [00:01:00] engineering. You took them to want to hire a Pat attorney to be in the area that you're at and then how to hire a high-cost attorney hire attorney head hunters. It depends on your firm and the type of jobs you have.
So the fees that attorney head hunters charge will differ most of them charge based on. A percentage of the annual salary of the person you hire. So they will charge an example would be 25% of the person's annual salary. And then the headhunter will typically guarantee the person there will stick around for a certain length of time.
It's usually six months and then the fees are usually prorated and over six months. So if the person leaves at month five, then you get I guess one six-pack and they leave a month. One, you would get five, six-pack, or month two, I guess would be. So that's how that works.
