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I interviewed with a d. ct. judge in a district with a heavy patent docket and a COA judge in flyover country (think 6th, 8th, 10th or 11th Circuits). I was lucky enough to receive offers from both. My plan is to do IP litigation at a biglaw firm after my clerkship. Is the prestige bump from doing a COA clerkship enough to outweigh the substantive usefulness of clerking for a district judge who has a lot of patent cases? The district judge said I would spend about 3/4 of my time working on patent cases. Obviously, I wouldn't spend any time working on patent cases with the COA judge, although I may work on other IP cases (Lanham Act or copyright) if any happen to be on the docket (although this appears to be rare). How would my biglaw firm view the d. ct. clerkship as opposed to the COA clerkship?

go to E.D. Texas bro

I'm pretty sure the answer here is whichever one you'd rather do.

go to E.D. Texas bro

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seizmaar wrote:go to E.D. Texas bro

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1) Definitely ED Texas

2) No COA is flyover

I'd lean patent docket here unless you were thinking of exiting patent litigation in the future.

Desert Fox wrote:1) Definitely ED Texas

2) No COA is flyover

(Judge Bacharach)

Anonymous User wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:1) Definitely ED Texas

2) No COA is flyover

(Judge Bacharach)

I don't understand the implication here.

oklahoma city sucks?

OP, would you mind PM me who the d. ct. judge is?

the relevant trial docket unless you want to be a law professor, in which case appellate experience even in some remote circuit seems to be preferable.

Anonymous User wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:1) Definitely ED Texas

2) No COA is flyover

(Judge Bacharach)

Was there something in particular regarding Judge Bacharach, or was that just an example of a fly over state?

D. ct. and it's not even close.

If you want to litigate, trial court experience is vastly better than appellate court experience.

enjoy texarkana