AIPLA's Economic Survey 2005

Here's how my AIPLA membership more than pays for itself: the 2005 Report of the Economic Survey.

Released every other year, the AIPLA Report of the Economic Survey is the most comprehensive and reliable review of incomes and demographics of intellectual property law attorneys and associated practitioners. It examines billing rates and charges across a variety of significant characteristics and is the foremost guide to current financial trends among your colleagues and in the workplace. The Report provides detailed information on income, billing rates, and typical charges by IP practitioners, as well as types of practice, age of practitioners, years of experience by job type, and bar membership, as well as technical education and specialization.

If there's any way you could possibly want to slice and dice income, billing, demographics, and firm composition data for solo, private, in-house or government IP counsel, this report has it. Based on a survey of over 1500 AIPLA members in almost 300 firms, you get almost 200 pages of charts, graphs, and lists reporting billed services, rates charged, employer contributions to retirement/savings plans, percent of time devoted to various activities, typical charges for trademark and patent applications as well as copyright registrations, and typical costs of litigation based on the amount at stake. If you're a techlawgeek, too, (or wannabe) you'll want this report and it's FREE for all AIPLA members (students pay only $45 to join).

They don't even have to pay me to recommend it, but if they did, I'd know the going rate for Texas on page...

See also "If you KNOW you want to be a patent attorney"