Intellectual Property Expert
You dream to be a lawyer but you landed up in STEM? Cheer up! You can still turn out to be a lawyer in STEM. Yes, you can be an Intellectual Property Expert.
Intellectual Property Experts are responsible to assess whether inventions are new and innovative to be patented.
IP Experts usually come from various backgrounds such as chemistry, biotechnology, engineering and ICT.
They play their role as lawyers when it comes to assisting clients in filling applications for patents, trademarks, industrial designs, copyrights, conducting novelty, infringement and landscape patent searches.
If you wish to have a unique career this will be a good choice since it is an intersection of law, technology and science.
There are many intellectual property firms mushrooming in Malaysia since innovations are rapidly increasing and people are concerned with protecting their intellectual properties.