DETROIT? The law firm of Dickinson Wright has created an Intellectual Property Academy to recruit and train recent law school grads, engineers and scientists to become patent attorneys.
The Academy will be run by Harold (Hal) Milton, Jr., a patent attorney with more than 40 years of experience in patent preparation, prosecution and licensing. Milton is coming out of a recently announced retirement to head Dickinson Wright’s IP Academy training program. He has trained more than 100 attorneys, developing a formalized program involving a series of skill-building courses including hands-on drafting of patent applications.
Law schools and most law firms do not have dedicated programs for training law students and associate attorneys on the intricacies of patent preparation and prosecution. The Academy is specifically designed to train both technically-educated law students and associate attorneys on the intricacies of efficiently drafting quality patent applications. Although in the past Milton has concentrated on training students attending law school, the training has been so successful Dickinson Wright is establishing the broader based Academy to train not only law students but law school graduates with minimal or no patent preparation training.
“Dickinson Wright made me an offer I couldn’t refuse,” Milton said. “This is the culmination of a 35 year dream to improve training in this area and a once in a lifetime opportunity.”
He will serve as both mentor and teacher at the Academy, supervising the Academy, reading and editing trainee work product and assigning the patent work to appropriately skilled trainees.
Dickinson Wright was founded in 1878, has more than 200 attorneys in offices located in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, and Washington, D.C.
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