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FIRST STAGE: Competency based questions like "Name a time you've displayed teamwork but you weren't the leader" Name a time you had to convince another person and a time when someone had to convince you" "Describe an occasion where you had to present to people" SECOND STAGE: Basically redo written description of can opener but verbally this time They ask about a project you've done, most likely your dissertation "How did you plan the project?" "How did you find having to read all that text during your literature research for it?" "Why a career in IP?" "Why Reddie and Grose?" "Why a career in IP?" "Why Reddie and Grose?" "How do you feel about the conversion to law?"
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Trainee Patent Attorney

Interviewed at Reddie & Grose

3.8★
Aug 11, 2020

FIRST STAGE: Competency based questions like "Name a time you've displayed teamwork but you weren't the leader" Name a time you had to convince another person and a time when someone had to convince you" "Describe an occasion where you had to present to people" SECOND STAGE: Basically redo written description of can opener but verbally this time They ask about a project you've done, most likely your dissertation "How did you plan the project?" "How did you find having to read all that text during your literature research for it?" "Why a career in IP?" "Why Reddie and Grose?" "Why a career in IP?" "Why Reddie and Grose?" "How do you feel about the conversion to law?"

A simple mechanical device was presented to me and I had to figure out what it was used for and what made it patentable. After this, the interviewers left the room and I had to write about the object for 30 minutes.
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Trainee Patent Attorney

Interviewed at Elkington and Fife

4.5★
Jun 7, 2017

A simple mechanical device was presented to me and I had to figure out what it was used for and what made it patentable. After this, the interviewers left the room and I had to write about the object for 30 minutes.

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