Patent attorneys work at the interface of science, law,
and commerce. The fundamental prerequisites for a person to
practice patent law are technical and legal qualifications.
However, it is also critical to have an in-depth understanding of
how products and services are commercialized in order to properly
frame the patent specification and draft the claims, and so that
the patent ultimately meets the applicant's commercial
objectives. This is no small task.
Patent specifications are complex to draft, even where the
inventive concept has already been crystallized and a client's
commercial objectives have already been given deep consideration,
let alone in cases in which the inventive concept is still its
initial stages and the scope of it is more 'nebulous'.
Indeed, Courts have marveled at how difficult it is to draft a
patent application. For example, the US Supreme Court explained
that drafting of "[t]he specification and claims of a
patent... constitute[s] one of
