… or why it is more interesting to be a patent specialist than a scientist (from my personal letter to the reader)
I worked for many years as a scientist, and still am a member of the organizing committee of a number of international conferences in the USA and Germany in the same specialty. At some point, scientific activity is annoying. This is a constant repetition of generally similar experiments, trips to conferences and meetings with the same people.

Basically, other scientists are not interested in what I’m doing. Everyone has their own grants, their own projects … In general, I’m tired of the routine. And inventive activity has always been a hobby for me. I myself am the author of two dozen patents. Working as a patent attorney is daily communication with talented creative people who are inspired by their ideas. I constantly deal with living people, all of which are different in their own ways. In addition, this work gave me the opportunity to participate in real battles to protect the intellectual property of small companies that large corporations wanted to “eat”. And we defended our rights! That is, I take part in the real germination of innovations in modern life, in the process of introducing inventions; and precisely those for which competitors are fighting. That is why the work of a patent specialist is more interesting than the work of a scientist. In the photo – an innovative bus stop in Sweden – with a swing! Oh how!