Finding a balance

摘要

After Jason Rutt filled out a career-assessment survey as a teenager, he was given three job options: soldier, farmer or patent attorney. At the time, says Rutt, all he knew about patents was that the Nobel-prizewinning physicist Albert Einstein had worked in a patent office. It was not until years later, while pursuing a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Nottingham, UK, that Rutt thought about patents again.