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[waterville]

I am in the midst of dilemma of obtaining patent trainee position at any of the law firms in my areas.   Currently I reside in Canada and graduated with a Honors Mechanical Engineering degree in conjunction with patent experiences 3 years ago which I doubt it is credential in the eyes of PTO office.  In Canada, it is required to have 1 year experience in the field before I am eligible to write the PTO exam.  Unlike in the USA, I can administer the USPTO exam registration without any direct patent experiences.   Thus, I am planning to write the USPTO exam this summer as a foreigner.  Has anyone or Canadian went through the similar experiences before?

It is a catch22 scenario for me to get into the patent field since I don't have any direct patent expereinces recently yet I have some knowledge in this field.  I have no choice but to write the USPTO exam such that if I succeed obtaining the US Patent agent registeration, I can better market myself.

Your opinion is much appreciate.

[laksh]

I know the post is too old...

I am in a similar situation and see how you got ahead if you indeed decided to choose this path!

[MYK]

Last time I looked, non-U.S.-citizens could only take the exam if they had a "green card" OR were in the U.S. on a valid work visa for an employer who required that they take the exam for their job.  I don't recall any exception for Canadians, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one (the USPTO has a rather pathetic one-way "reciprocity" agreement with CIPO to allow Canadians to represent Canadian clients in matters before the USPTO, although CIPO weaseled out of granting the same "reciprocity" to Americans).