Careers in High Tech

High Tech Law Institute and Law Career Services

Getting Noticed

Your mission is not just to contact potential employers, but to GET NOTICED!

Know your industry Network!! Join/attend/participate in related professional association Write an article

Exploit past experience Example—Honors Thesis on Gene Sequences in the

Tobacco Mosaic Virus Look up agribusiness companies at www.uspto.gov to find

patents

Job Search Resources OCI—represents a small fraction of all employers Job Fairs

IP Interview Program for Patent Students in Chicago, IL (July)

American Intellectual Property Law Association (www.aipla.org), Washington, DC (Oct.)

San Francisco SFIPLA (http://www.sfipla.org) (Aug.) Published and On-Line Resources

Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (http://www.jptos.org)

Bulletin of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA Bulletin)

Intellectual Property Law Today (www.iptoday.com) Intellectual Property Law Bulletin (www.iplawbulletin.com)

Other Methods to Research Potential Employers

Annual Reports and 10-K statement for publicly traded companies

Use standard reference works Standard & Poors (www.standardandpoors.com), Valueline (www.valueline.com), or Moody’s Industrial Manual (www.moodys.com)

Directory of Corporate Counsel Use document segments to find firm’s

handling particular clients

Resources in Silicon Valley

List of VC’s (http://www.gocee.com/valley/busvc_sj.htm)

National VC Association (http://www.nvca.org/events.html)

Silicon Valley IP Law Association (http://www.svipla.com)

High Tech Law Section of Santa Clara County Bar (http://www.sccba.com/framemaker.cfm?masthead_dir=about&content_dir=about&content=committees.cfm)

Think Outside of Silicon Valley USPTO FCC FTC Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of the Interior Department of Energy U.S. Copyright Office Department of Justice Judicial Clerkships Firms in locations outside of the Bay Area