“THE PATKEY SHOW” is a YouTube episode series for people who have a keen interest in Indian Patent Agent Examination. This show is hosted by Cheshta Sharma and Kirtiman Sharma.
Transcript :
Kirtiman
Hello and welcome to the Patkey show and today’s three questions are :
Which is more important job experience or higher education?
How many times can someone appear for the patent agent examination?
Is syllabus for all the streams of science is same for the patent agent examination.
Hi I’m Kirtiman Sharma
Cheshta
And I am Cheshta Sharma
Kirtiman
The Patkey show: where we talk about tips and tricks for everything related to patent agent examination and once again from you guys we have received three questions. The first question is which is more important job experience or higher education
Cheshta
From the examination perspective i think job experience is good because once you are into a job then you will be able to understand that you are keenly interested into a particular field let’s say you have experience in any aeronautical company let’s say Hindustan aeronautics, I received one student who was from Hindustan aeronautics now he understand that he is interested he has work experience in this field so he has a lot of practical understanding already about the industry now then you qualify patent agent examination. Now you can become a consultant to more mechanical engineering companies to more tech companies , to more manufacturing companies and you can utilize all your experience from a large job and you can build on that higher education is good but always, I am personally I’m a fan of work experience over a higher education. So I’d say if you have a B.Sc. go for work experience then go for higher education because work experience is always much higher than Higher Education
Kirtiman
So, What I want to add is if you ever see international universities they would always prefer people who have work experience ,if you have work experience you know which field which exact type of masters you want to choose so job experience is always better than any higher education because your aim is now clear so that’s very important and that’s why I would say job experience what do you say about it
Cheshta
Yeah, I feel the same job experience is always better than any higher education because now you decide for yourself that what type of work you’re enjoying on your daily basis for bad key like for patient agent if i feel passionate about technology then this is a good field to start so I really want you to think about yourself and see what you really like because in the long term what you really like that you will be able to do for your like long term career.
Kirtiman
Let’s move on to the second question: How many times can somebody appear for the patent agent examination?
Cheshta
That’s a quite a good question according to the rules and regulations of patent officers. There are no limits of attending the examination that means you can attempt it as many as times possible starting from that you’re 21 years of age there’s no end age as well so that means you can appear any time but if you’ll take my suggestion i would say that give it one shot prepare it 100 percent you, I don’t want you to waste years and years because it will build on your frustration so prepare at one time, follow a particular time , be disciplined person and it is not that difficult you will be able to qualify the exam in first attempt and also year after year as I’m seeing the examination level is increasing yes right every year the examination is becoming more and more difficult and so if you’re planning for 2022 then give it for 2022 if you are planning for 2023 then give it for 2023 whatever year you are deciding just stick by it ,be a disciplined person, prepare it well and give it your best shot
Kirtiman
What I would want to add here is see it’s best to qualify as soon as possible. Being a practical person, I would say if you qualify it sooner then you have some time to build on your experience in see this is a professional certification. You will be certified from the government right now you have to build on your practice. So let’s say it is allowed that you can qualify it after five years also but that means let’s say uh your company would have given you a promotion right now but that you would get five years you know in the future so prepare perfectly and prepare well and qualify there right in that particular area.
Cheshta
Absolutely great, let’s move to next question is a soluble same for everyone yeah it is same for everyone uh you are from any qualification you are from any background any kind of work experience you have the complete curriculum is same for everyone it which contains that in detail interpretation of patent act 1970 along with rules along with guidelines of patent office so that that same curriculum is asked even in like paper one in mcqs, true and false and even in paper two in case studies and second is patent drafting that how you will draft a patent so curriculum is same .
Kirtiman
So, how would you say let’s say you know how would the judge if I’m a mechanical engineer and somebody’s a biotechnology engineer uh how would you know the examination the patent office judges by similar syllabus
Cheshta
Okay, all right that’s a good question. So, one thing about patent act 1970 is same it’s all about rights and duties of our inventor and then when you move on to the patent drafting question you get a choice between that if you are from a journal science category you will have a simpler inventions like talking about shampoo composition or a medicine composition and you will have a choice of a choice of that patent drafting question with the mechanical drawing based question which a mechanical engineer or somebody from a design engineering background can understand and plus after paper one and paper two there’s a third paper that is viva voice .So, viva voice is entirely based on your education and your experience let’s say you are from mechanical engineering background who have 10 years of experience into tata steel so they will ask your question about your experience and how you are going to utilize your knowledge of working with tata steel and patent act combined and how you’re going to become a patent consultant and give your services so goal of a patent office is to get as many as good consultants into the market which can really help the corporates coming from different backgrounds so if you are from pharma background they will ask question that how you will help any pharma company so they will ask question about drug patenting if you have a mechanical engineering background they will ask about product design patenting, if you are from electronics background they will ask about electronic circuits, if you are from computer science they will ask about how algorithms can be patented so your vivo voice will be entirely based on your qualification on your work experience combining with the knowledge of patent act 1970
Kirtiman
See, The Patent Act and the patent cycle, the innovation lifecycle is always the same no matter which field are you from so there is an idea and then it is converted into a technology and then the technology is to be sold and there are various ways of selling it like you can do a technology transfer you can do licensing so all this life cycle remains the same no matter its electronics, mechanical or biotechnology that remains the same but how can you understand this as a as a patent agent and how can you put into perspective using your own technical knowledge. So if you’re a biotechnology engineer you can use biotechnology and still help somebody but that doesn’t mean that you know uh you will not never get you know you cannot file an electronics payment you can file an electronic payment you can file because the basic uh fundamental of patenting and patent writing is always the same it’s always the same right so that is why the syllabus is the same for all the fields no matter which field are you from all the science fields will be getting the same people so there’s so the question always you know asked is that I’m a mechanical engineer and what do i have to study separately. It’s not like gate yeah it’s not like gate it’s the same syllabus for everybody.
Cheshta
And one more interesting point which I want to add that when we do our online class especially in patent drafting so we teach our students like 10 different types of claims like means plus function claim design, claims composition, claims process, claims product, so coming we cover almost like all the industry the possible time types of claims and patent drafting which we can cover. So when you become a patent agent, you are from a general science IQ level and you understand about invention and the claim drafting so uh you can draft and help as many as people you want all.
Kirtiman
Right, So that’s it for today’s question if you have any other question. Comment down below and we will answer as soon as we can. Thankyou!
