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Many people who practice patent law have science degrees, and often firms require a BSE or even a PhD depending on the position. 
To the practicing patent attorneys reading this, how often do you have to draw on your technical knowledge? Is this requirement really even necessary?
Hell, most engineers I know don't use a lick of their technical background on a day-to-day basis, so I find it hard to believe that you'd really need to know anything about electronics, software, etc to be a patent attorney.

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Yes, for prosecution. Litigation, not as much, but is somewhat helpful.

You use technical engineering knowledge about...100 times more, than in most engineering positions. Engineering introduces you to a few types of technology (if that) at the entry level, patent attorneys usually deal with hundreds of types of technology. Someone would be heavily crippled in prosecution without a fair amount of technical knowledge, or the proven ability to process technical knowledge quickly.