Re: Outsourcing patents to India

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>> 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.

This is very disconcerting. I am really concerned and would
love to know where to start in fighting this. I have a master's
in electrical engineering, currently unemployed, (by choice) to
spend a little time with husband who is pilot (great job -
cannot be outsourced). But my daughter is a graduating master's
degree candidate in Electrical Engineering at MIT. She's a
serious person who works her &^%$ off!! Her plan was to
safeguard her career from outsourcing by going into PATENT LAW.
If she does this, she will kill herself for another 4 or so
years, to come out with a job where she can make $30 per hour
(or way less) competing with people from India???? I know these
guys are smart. I worked with MANY of them at Intel Corp when I
was an FPGA designer. But we are not on a level playing field
with them when they can live like kings at $10k per year! I
strongly believe in capitalism, but the theories of Ayn Rand and
others did not anticipate the global climate we now have. Their
economy will not ramp up to ours to "equalize" the supply/demand
equation because there is not a decade long ramp up period.
Just come to USA, gain skills over a year or two period, go back
home and electronically transfer work to wherever. I don't want
to be a whiner. I want to be an activist who can productively
educate the powers to be and lobby for our home grown technical
professionals. We cannot recruit engineers and scientists (you
know how hard the preparation is for these jobs - not like a
month or two for truck drivers who might nowadays have a
brighter future. It's a travesty! Please dialogue with me. I
really do want to get something started!!!
barbararempel@yahoo.com
Thanks,
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Re: Outsourcing patents to India, 5/22/04, by Kibitzer.

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