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The Harvard graduate who eventually got her law license and first job at Sidley Austin was working on intellectual property and marketing at the time she met and mentored Obama. What this means is that in her first job out of Harvard Law School, she was assigned to the dead end, do no damage area of intellectual property and marketing. Because she was mentoring Obama, he too must have been assigned the same dead end, do no harm area.

The reason I say intellectual property was a dead end, do no harm role is because the US Patent & Trademark Office requires that persons coming before it must have passed the Patent Bar exam and the only way to take the Patent Bar is to have an approved technical degree. Neither Michelle nor Barack had anything close to a technical degree.

Therefore, neither could have ever developed an expertise in matters of intellectual property law.

The reason I say intellectual property was a dead end, do no harm role is because the US Patent & Trademark Office requires that persons coming before it must have passed the Patent Bar exam and the only way to take the Patent Bar is to have an approved technical degree. Neither Michelle nor Barack had anything close to a technical degree.

General Requirements Bulletin for Admission to the Examination for Registration to Practice in Patent Cases Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/oed/grb.pdf

With special attention to Section III, pp. 4-9 of this document.

III. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE EXAMINATION

An applicant applying for the examination must demonstrate that he or she possesses the scientific and technical training necessary to provide valuable service to patent applicants. Applicants bear the burden of showing the requisite scientific and technical training. To be admitted to the examination, each applicant must demonstrate possession of the required scientific and technical training.

The reason I say intellectual property was a dead end, do no harm role is because the US Patent & Trademark Office requires that persons coming before it must have passed the Patent Bar exam and the only way to take the Patent Bar is to have an approved technical degree. Neither Michelle nor Barack had anything close to a technical degree.

You are an idiot. Most IP work is trademark, copyright, or transactional. You don't need a technical degree for any of that. You don't even need a technical degree for patent litigation, I've done it myself and I'm an econ guy. You only need a technical degree if you want to do patent prosecution (i.e. register and defend new patents). Very few people in intellectual property groups do that.

Michelle Obama had a prestigious well-paying job at Sidley. There is no story here.

“The reason I say intellectual property was a dead end, do no harm role is because the US Patent & Trademark Office requires that persons coming before it must have passed the Patent Bar exam and the only way to take the Patent Bar is to have an approved technical degree. Neither Michelle nor Barack had anything close to a technical degree.. Therefore, neither could have ever developed an expertise in matters of intellectual property law.”

I practiced intellectual property law for about 25 years without an engineering degree. Believe it or not, in addition to patents, copyrights and trademarks are ordinarily regarded as intellectual property. A whole bunch of money goes down in the economy around copyright and trademark issues so lawyers are up to their ears in them. I also handled a lot of patent litigation in federal court (for which you do not need a technical degree).

About all you can say from these facts is that she was not qualified to practice before the patent commissioner. But that is a small portion of IP law. It may be she was given a dead end job (and marketing certainly suggest that). But that she was in intellectual property w/o a technical degree really doesn’t tell you that.

You were doing fine right up to:
Therefore, neither could have ever developed an expertise in matters of intellectual property law.
Intellectual property truely is a dead end, on the other hand there is no basis for stating that a non-techie cannot under any circumstances develop into a very competent expert in that realm.

PS: If anyone doubts the dead end statement, check out who gets laid off first or replaced last when money is tight.
PPS: It's virtually a non-issue under any government contract.

Thank you for this significant post on her placement ib a totally Deadend Alley for Her given Law Career Development!
Then what is apparent, that even having been placed in a Do No Harm Position, Michelle “MAABELLE” OBAMA succeeded in getting the Illinois Criminal Court System to come after her in such a way that she “VOLUNTEERED TO SURRENDER HER LAW LICENSE” and suffer the resultant Financial Loss and Professional Humiliation in order to prevent having to defend Herself in a Public Trial and possibly clearing Her Name and Saving Her Chosen Careeer!! To anyone else, this would have been certain professional Ruination, but obviosly not for the Obama’s.