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Patent Attorney

OFO Code: 261103

Last checked 3 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
261103
Occupation
Patent Attorney
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
PROFESSIONALS
Unit group
2611 · Lawyers

Official description
Lawyers give clients legal advice on a wide variety of subjects, draw up legal documents, represent clients before administrative boards or tribunals and plead cases or conduct prosecutions in courts of justice, or instruct barristers to plead in higher courts of justice.

More official OFO detail
  • Researching legal principles, statutes and previous court decisions related to specific cases
  • Pleading clients’ cases before courts of law, tribunals and administrative boards or instructing barristers to plead in higher courts of justice
  • Drawing up legal documents such as contracts, real estate transactions and wills and preparing statements of legal opinions
  • Giving clients legal advice on a wide variety of subjects and undertaking legal business on clients’ behalf
  • Accepting briefs and pleading in the higher court
  • Evaluate findings and develop strategies and arguments in preparation for presentation of cases
  • Acting as prosecutor on behalf of the Government
  • Drafting legislation and preparing government regulations based on existing laws
  • Gathering evidence to formulate a defence or to initiate legal actions, by such means as interviewing clients and witnesses to ascertain the facts of a case
  • Negotiating settlements in matters which involve legal disputes

2. Demand status

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