Morning to you from WA kaladorn,

First, I'm glad that your wife's checkup went well for the most part and I'm crossing my fingers, not helping my typing ;-), and praying she gets over the  bad bit without any problems.

Next, I was over zealous in cleaning up my inbox and deleted your reply clarifying my miss understanding of the engineer turned lawyer. The reason, after looking at a few more colleges offering tech and IP law degrees appears to me is that this is a specialization that anyone can obtain without having a degree in some related field. The person you spoke about can charge more in the field many because of the degree his background as an Engineer is not the reason being able to charge more for services render. The background does however, give the advantage of having a better understanding of the important bits and bobs.

Tom Rux