{"id":1169,"date":"2015-11-04T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2015-11-04T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:33:39","slug":"trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2015\/11\/04\/trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick or treat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"halloween\"<\/a>A post from student blogger Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

We all love this time of year.\u00a0 The temperature is dropping but it\u2019s not too cold yet, and our favorite holiday is approaching. \u00a0Halloween.\u00a0 How many of you out there love haunted houses? \u00a0The excitement, anxiety, fear.\u00a0 Who doesn\u2019t love a good scare!\u00a0 And don\u2019t get me started on trick or treating!\u00a0 This holiday makes me a kid again.\u00a0 But this is also the time of year when you realize it\u2019s pretty much November already!\u00a0 When did this happen? I feel like we just started!<\/p>\n

So let me slow things down a bit to compare this great holiday with patent law.\u00a0 I imagine being a patent agent will be like trick or treating.\u00a0 You will be working on all kinds of inventions and every now and then you will hit the jackpot and write a patent for a very interesting invention.\u00a0 Similar to trick or treating you go from house to house looking for candy and you hit the mother lode.\u00a0 A house giving out the big sized candy bar.\u00a0 That was the jackpot house.\u00a0 But I also assume that as a patent agent you will work on inventions and other tasks that you enjoy.\u00a0 Similar to that one piece of candy that you find way better than any other kind and you love to get it.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t really know what to expect when I finally start working in the real world.\u00a0 It will be unpredictable just like a haunted house.<\/p>\n

I also see being a patent agent as a type of costume.\u00a0 When you tell people you\u2019re going to grad school for Patent Law they usually ask how long is the program and you say it\u2019s only a year.\u00a0 They look at you in disbelief.\u00a0 \u201cHow can you get a law degree in one year?\u201d\u00a0 And my response is \u201cWell you see, I have an engineering background and the program is a master of science so technically it\u2019s not the usual law degree, and I will become a patent agent verses a patent lawyer.\u201d\u00a0 They still really have no clue what I\u2019m talking about until I say I will help people get patents without a law degree.\u00a0 As simple as that.\u00a0 I receive the more understanding \u201cOhh, okay\u201d after I tell them that simple sentence. \u00a0So this leads me to believe that as a future patent agent I am really just a patent lawyer in disguise; I am a patent lawyer without the law degree.<\/p>\n

But back to this time flying by!\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think about it as much in the beginning of the semester because I was still settling in, but now I know what the teachers were saying.\u00a0 They called it from the beginning of the semester and now I believe them.\u00a0 Soon I\u2019ll be writing my last blog and be heading out into the real world before I know it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A post from student blogger Nicole We all love this time of year.\u00a0 The temperature is dropping but it\u2019s not too cold yet, and our favorite holiday is approaching. \u00a0Halloween.\u00a0 How many of you out there love haunted houses? \u00a0The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}