William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Chris Smolinski wrote:
> 
>> I worked for a patent attorney for 5 years. He had a BS in Chem E, and
>> had a pretty good grasp of the technical nature of the patents he was
>> involved with.
> 
> The patent attorneys I've worked with have had a better technical
> understanding of my ideas than I expected them to.  

I have worked with some who had surprisingly little technical
understanding. I always thought that it had to be the way you guys describe
it, but they proved me wrong :)

Gerhard

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