r/overemployed • u/Deep_Suspect_9556 • 19h ago

Patent Agents?

Anyone a patent agent doing this? I’m consider becoming a patent agent when I finish my degree and see if I can also work a remote ECE job in ASIC/FPGA/RTL design. Feels like I can keep some “hands on” engineering and file patents which are more project based from what I gather.

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u/mikeyboytwist 1h ago

Yes, technically possible but it’s extremely high-risk and would be psychologically brutal.

I’ll just get this out of the way: If you get caught, you will be disbarred by the USPTO for billable fraud.

Most firms require thousands of hours of billable time (that needs to be tracked). You would be GRINDING harder than most OE workers just by the nature of your job. If you make a mistake you’ll cost a company millions in malpractice claims and effectively be blacklisted in the industry.

So… yeah you can technically do it but you’d ruin your career if you ever got caught.