Re: Outsourcing patents to India

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On 4/02/04, bemaha wrote:
> 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.

There is a deeper issue here. Most execs see the U.S. as only a
place for sales and marketing. Everything else including patent
work should be done overseas. That is capitalism at its best. Of
course, as more people get downsized or take pay cuts, it becomes
harder to pay for goods even if they are cheaper. India and China
will need to pick up their per capita spending to make up for the
ground the U.S. is losing. Also, perhaps more government jobs
should be outsourced to save money and reduce taxes for everyone.
Patent examiners, tax examiners, government analysists and
economists, and general paper pushers should defintely be
outsourced to India, China and the Philippines to reduce costs.
The U.S. government is ill equiped with smart people these days to
lead the U.S. out of this so might as well do some good by
reducing government overhead.

More to the topic at hand, one quote for patent drafting services
came in for $35 per hour. Compare that with $200 per hour in the
U.S. and one sees what is going on here. Maybe 5 to 10 years from
now little to no preparation and prosecution in the U.S.?

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

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