{"id":434,"date":"2019-07-26T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/434"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:20:02","slug":"reasons-to-avoid-ip-attorney-career-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/reasons-to-avoid-ip-attorney-career-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t You Want to be an IP Attorney? – Five Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was first published on June 12, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

IP profession is fun and enjoyable for many reasons. However, there are some reasons that sometimes bog you down.<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Scary Deadlines<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Scary deadlines are first in that list. Every IP action is linked with a deadline and more often than not missing these deadlines is fatal. For people, who believe in Indian Stretchable Timings, these deadlines can be killing and nerve wracking.<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Dealing with IP Office<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the increased transparency and friendly IP officers, dealing with the office can many a times be frustrating. Long lines and perpetuating timelines can de-motivate the most patient of folks. More often than not, clients ask – How much more time do you think we need to get my patent or trade mark registered? Unfortunately, no IP professional has an answer to this question.<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Indecisive and Short Sighted Clients<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Many clients are indecisive and do not value IP as a long term asset. No attorney can provide immediate returns and the result is endless explanation. To make things worse, IP in many cases does not yield any business benefits and IP attorneys often receive a bad beating for making the investment.<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Enforcement Mechanism<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With a few exceptions, the enforcement mechanism does not move as fast as needed and it can get really painful to see your client’s IP being violated with impunity. Though the speed is increasing, the history lives on in many clients\u2019 minds. Wiping it out is always a herculean task.<\/span><\/p>\n

e. Social Status<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the hype, an IP professional has not been able to scale the social ladder. Many do not realize their value and they are often treated as coordinators or docketing personnel. The mind and skill that goes into IP activities is still not valued by many people. Will we climb up the ladder in the next few years? I hope so.<\/span><\/p>\n

f. IP Quacks<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It is difficult to differentiate between an IP quack and a true IP professional. Half knowledge professionals and people with lack of appropriate qualifications make life of an IP professional very difficult. While some intelligent riders jump over the hurdles, others stumble on them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other thoughts?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The post examines five reasons that may deter individuals from becoming IP attorneys in India, including challenging deadlines, client expectations, and slow enforcement. It offers an analytical perspective on the realities of the IP profession and its current social perception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10438,5,413,8256,5469,5648,50,101],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","tag-enforcement-mechanism","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip-attorney","tag-ip-office-india","tag-legal-career","tag-legal-profession","tag-patent-law","tag-trademark-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139763,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/139763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}