“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.
Thanks for pointing that out.