Intellectual Property Lawyer

As an Intellectual Property Lawyer, you help people protect what they have invented or created. A patent is a document that says an invention is yours. A trademark is a name or logo that belongs to a company. A copyright protects a book, song or design. Your job is to make sure your clients own these things legally and stop others stealing them.

Your day involves writing documents for the government, reading laws to find the best way to protect your client, and sometimes going to court if someone has copied something they should not have. You also meet with inventors, designers and business leaders to understand what they have made, then figure out the smartest way to protect it.