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So, in my previous career I was an engineer and I did integrated circuit design for implantable pacemakers and implantable defibrillators. And the thing about doing hardware design, at least at the time that I did it, was that the cost of making a change was very expensive. So you would do a design, you would send the tape out to get an IC made, and $100,000 later you would have prototypes that you would work with, and you would get to test and see whether a design would work. So, you know, getting it wrong had a big cost, both in terms of time and in terms of the spend to get prototypes built. And so that whole mentality of trying to get it right in advance is something that I think has carried over from my engineering career into my legal career. You know, patents, you’re also trying to be very proactive. You’re trying to set the metes and bounds of the IP right out front, when you’re not aware of the exact landscape of the prior art or what the commercial landscape will look like 10, 15 years down the road.

Minneapolis patent attorney Suneel Arora of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner reflects on how his days as an engineer prepared him to be a patent lawyer.

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