Loyola Patent Fair 2012 Forum

[Anonymous User]

Seriously, any answers to this one?

Goodwin has given out their CBs already? Poor me....

What city for the goodwin cb?

[soccerfreak]

One firm said they send out callback offers only after they complete all ocis and have met all candidates.

One firm said it was annoying when students were made overly vague comments.

[Anonymous User]

Seriously, any answers to this one?

Goodwin has given out their CBs already? Poor me....

What city for the goodwin cb?

I think it was Boston.

[clintone88]

I saw one guy studying the MPEP in the lobby this weekend, it was awesome. I imagine his answer to every question was "you must use red ink for an examiner's amendment."

[Dr. Review]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

What do you look for in the short 20 minutes you have in a screener? Just making sure they aren't an axe murderer?

[fatduck]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

What do you look for in the short 20 minutes you have in a screener? Just making sure they aren't an axe murderer?

follow-up: did you recognize any tlsers amongst your interviewees?

[Anonymous User]

Anyone know anything about callback to offer ratio about Brinks? Anyone know of anyone who went in for a callback last year?

[Anonymous User]

Cooley has started callbacks!

[Anonymous User]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

What do you look for in the short 20 minutes you have in a screener? Just making sure they aren't an axe murderer?

Plus One.

[Anonymous User]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

What were the worst questions that people asked you?

Also, did you find the pros/lit topic came up too often?

[soccerfreak]

Cooley has started callbacks!

On a Saturday?

[Anonymous User]

Cooley has started callbacks!

On a Saturday?

Yup, got the call this morning.

[Anonymous User]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

What were the worst questions that people asked you?

Also, did you find the pros/lit topic came up too often?

The worst questions had to do with publicly available information (e.g., practice group size, regional office focus, how long the firm's been around, class size, offer rate, types of patents being litigated). I am sympathetic to this tick, given that an interview room is a nervous environment. But that is the answer to your first question. Some people brought up interesting topics like the ITC, Alice Corp/Bancorp, the Pilot Program, the joinder provision, the AIA, etc. But they had very uninteresting answers to follow-up questions. But, I guess, it was at least impressive that they had some surface awareness of things like that. Not to me, though. To me, don't bring something up if you can't have a 30-second conversation about it.

As to your second, some people hedged just to get a job. In other words, they'd say they're interested in both. But I could easily tell that's a lie. We were actually looking for pure litigators, but hadn't advertised in that way. So the hedgers actually looked bad for us. Maybe we should have advertised it better. One or two people with bar numbers actually outright said they had zero interest in prosecution. We liked that. But this is unique to us because of our hiring needs right now. Maybe hedging is a decent net strategy.

[Anonymous User]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

What do you look for in the short 20 minutes you have in a screener? Just making sure they aren't an axe murderer?

follow-up: did you recognize any tlsers amongst your interviewees?

Yes

[fatduck]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

What do you look for in the short 20 minutes you have in a screener? Just making sure they aren't an axe murderer?

follow-up: did you recognize any tlsers amongst your interviewees?

Yes

does my posting history increase or decrease my chances for a callback? ps, I really do have zero interest in prosecution

[Anonymous User]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

What were the worst questions that people asked you?

Also, did you find the pros/lit topic came up too often?

The worst questions had to do with publicly available information (e.g., practice group size, regional office focus, how long the firm's been around, class size, offer rate, types of patents being litigated). I am sympathetic to this tick, given that an interview room is a nervous environment. But that is the answer to your first question. Some people brought up interesting topics like the ITC, Alice Corp/Bancorp, the Pilot Program, the joinder provision, the AIA, etc. But they had very uninteresting answers to follow-up questions. But, I guess, it was at least impressive that they had some surface awareness of things like that. Not to me, though. To me, don't bring something up if you can't have a 30-second conversation about it.

As to your second, some people hedged just to get a job. In other words, they'd say they're interested in both. But I could easily tell that's a lie. We were actually looking for pure litigators, but hadn't advertised in that way. So the hedgers actually looked bad for us. Maybe we should have advertised it better. One or two people with bar numbers actually outright said they had zero interest in prosecution. We liked that. But this is unique to us because of our hiring needs right now. Maybe hedging is a decent net strategy.

The only interviewer I explicitly told I preferred lit, at an office that does ONLY lit, seemed very disappointed that I expressed a preference. I was very surprised.

[r6_philly]

Yes

Me?

[clintone88]

Got my first CB from the interview that I thought, and told everyone, went the worst. So hopefully that is a good indicator for the rest of the CBs, or maybe I'm just a horrible judge of what is and isn't a good interview.

[Anonymous User]

Mind sharing with us which firm is this??

[Anonymous User]

It would also help if class year, school range, degree, and approximate rank were listed. As a 3L, I am mostly interested in knowing if the people hearing back so far are 2Ls or 3Ls.

[Anonymous User]

As a 3L, I am mostly interested in knowing if the people hearing back so far are 2Ls or 3Ls.

+1

[target]

Yes

Me?

I think I know who you are from the kerne reception

As a 3L, I am mostly interested in knowing if the people hearing back so far are 2Ls or 3Ls.

+2, although I am a 2L

[Anonymous User]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

Do interviewers know which other firms students are interviewing with?

[Anonymous User]

I was one of the interviewers at the fair. Taking qs. GP firm

Thoughts on when to schedule call backs? I would think immediately, but then I don't want to be too soon and then they hold my reviews and forget about me after bringing in people three or four weeks later through school OCI.

[r6_philly]

I think I know who you are from the kerne reception

And you didn't say hi? I'm offended!