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Patent engineer

Have you ever played with a toy and thought "this is really cool!"? If you have, did you know that somebody, just like you, created that toy? Sometimes people come up with really great ideas and make things that nobody else has thought of before.

A patent engineer is exactly that - a person who comes up with cool ideas and inventions. They are very good at understanding how things work and how to make them work better! They take their ideas and turn them into something that can be protected, so nobody else can copy it.

Just like how you have to clean your room and put things away in their proper place, patent engineers have to do a lot of paperwork and make sure their ideas are properly filed and protected. They work with all sorts of people, like lawyers, scientists, and inventors, to make sure that the ideas are good and that they can be turned into something that can be protected.

So, if you ever have an idea for something really cool, you might be a future patent engineer!
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