A dual-certificate lawyer needs to have both a lawyer's certificate and a patent agent's certificate. To obtain a lawyer's license, you must first pass the judicial examination. I graduated from undergraduate course before, and I can take the judicial examination regardless of my major (now I am qualified to take the law examination). You can practice in a law firm for one year after passing the exam, and you can get a license after passing the exam.
To obtain the patent agent certificate, you need to pass the exam first and then practice for one year, but only students majoring in science and engineering are eligible to refer to the patent agent exam. Therefore, double-certificate lawyers are generally undergraduates in science and engineering, and graduate students study law, or they don't go to graduate school. Science and engineering students take the judicial examination directly after graduation.
Business contents of dual-certificate lawyers in the patent field:
Compared with ordinary lawyers or patent agents, dual-certificate lawyers have stronger professional fields and wider business scope, and can simultaneously carry out the business of lawyers and patent agents, as follows:
1, patent application and examination business.
2. Patent infringement dispute litigation.
3. Patent business such as reexamination and invalidation.
4. Refuse to accept the reexamination decision and invalidation decision of the Patent Reexamination Board, and bring a lawsuit to the people's court.
5. Formulation of patent protection strategy.
6, patent literature retrieval and investigation.
7. Maintenance, licensing and transfer of patent rights.
8. Other patent-related businesses.
The above 1, 5 and 6 are the basic businesses of patent agents, 2 and 4 are the basic businesses of lawyers, and the rest are businesses that both lawyers and patent agents can carry out.