Experienced patent paralegals are in high demand
Experienced patent paralegals are in high demand, so IP-owning
companies are not always able to recruit the talent they need. At
the same time, many in-house IP teams are coming under pressure to
reduce costs in the current economic climate. Employing a full-time
patent paralegal may be outside of some budgets.
This constrained environment – with both a talent shortage
and cost pressures – is driving increased interest in
temporary or part-time employment of paralegal talent. Rouse's
office in Sweden is a trendsetter in this practice, having provided
clients with paralegal services on secondment for more than 25
years.
"Law and patent-attorney firms are traditionally averse to
outsourcing their talent to customers, but we have been very
successful with this model. Our first patent-paralegal secondment
was with a large Swedish industrial company in the 1990s. Today we
have multiple clients using this service,"
