Re: Outsourcing patents to India

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On 4/02/04, Kibitzer wrote:
> On 4/02/04, bemaha wrote:
>> On 4/01/04, RSU wrote:
>>> Also, should people in the
>>> U.S. bother getting patent prosecution experience anymore
>>> if this is the future?
>>>
>>> rsu
>>
>>
>> Does this mean the beginning of the end of U.S. patent
>> prep/pros attorneys? This amazes me. When I earned my law
>> degree after getting a masters degree in engineering, I
>> thought I'd at least be safe in this field of law. Now I see
>> we are not safe anywhere. OR maybe U.S. patent attorneys will
>> have to start charging $50 to draft a complex electrical
>> application.
>
> I think any job that you could imagine doing effectively by
> telecomuting is a strong candidate for offshoring.
>
> If the job requires expertise in English and technical skills,
> right now the logical choice seems to be India, but for other
> work there are other places even cheaper.
>
> There are some advantages to having a local practitioner draft
> your patent applications, but why would someone in Atlanta
> prefer a person in Texas over someone in India?

Why would someone prefer a person in Atlanta over India? Oh, gee,
I don't know, maybe a sense of national pride and patriotism, and
a sense that we should trust American trained attorneys over
foreign trained attorneys? Oh, but I forgot, pride, honesty, a
sense of honor and all that stuff doesn't exist anymore. Come to
think of it, why don't we close every American institution of
higher learning, fire every blue AND white collar worker in the
U.S., and outsource everything to India and China. Better yet,
why don't we just have our government turn over power to India, so
we won't have this outsourcing problem anymore.

Re: Outsourcing patents to India, 5/22/04, by Kibitzer.

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