(1) Intellectual property work has a future, and intellectual property will definitely be very important in the future. However, the intellectual property majors currently offered by various universities are not very promising, and it is not easy to find a job. The reason is that any industry has a future. Even if it is building toilets or collecting garbage, there are a large number of rich people or PhDs and masters engaged in scientific research, so intellectual property rights must have a future, but there are also many people who are engaged in the intellectual property industry who are poor and belong to the lower class. And like many industries, those at the bottom are the majority.
Most of the intellectual property majors in various domestic universities are placed in law schools, which means that the degrees actually cultivated are liberal arts degrees, not science and engineering degrees. But with a liberal arts degree, it would be more straightforward to pursue a legal major. It would be natural to go to court, become a lawyer, and do corporate business. However, the professional direction of intellectual property is very embarrassing. Although it is very advanced, the reality has not yet formed an employment scale. To give a simple example, 99% of 100 companies with an output value of 100 million do not have intellectual property positions, but most legal departments have them. So, in terms of recruitment market, will they directly recruit law majors or intellectual property majors? The requirements of enterprises are complex, but the intellectual property major is too specialized, so beginners are not very competitive.
What is intellectual property? Patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets. The management of trademarks and copyrights is very simple for most companies (of course, for music companies and film companies, copyright is very complicated), but patent rights are very complicated, from patent search, patent application, patent mining to patent application, Patent licensing and litigation are both complicated, but the position of patent agent must be a graduate of science and engineering majors, which means college graduates of intellectual property majors with a liberal arts degree were deceived from the beginning. If you can't work as a patent attorney and can only work on trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, a law major is more suitable and there is no need to enter the intellectual property major.
To engage in intellectual property, the best way to study is to study science and engineering as an undergraduate and enter an intellectual property college as a master. For example, South China University of Technology has such a degree. Or just go to law school with a master's degree, and you don't have to enter an intellectual property school. What experts can be found in the intellectual property college in the school? Intellectual property is a practical subject. You cannot tell your level by reading books. You can develop your level by doing things.
(2) Big cities attach great importance to intellectual property rights, but no one in small cities pays attention to intellectual property rights. This judgment is basically very correct. It would be better to correct it. It should be that large companies pay more attention to intellectual property rights, while small companies pay less attention to intellectual property rights. Some small cities have large companies and will also pay attention to intellectual property rights. How big a company is called big? According to my experience, only half of companies with annual sales of 5 billion pay more attention to intellectual property rights. However, companies with annual sales of 100 million yuan have begun to pay attention to legal issues. Of course, there are too many law graduates, so competition in the legal profession is too fierce.
(3) Is it difficult to take the postgraduate entrance examination for intellectual property rights? The difficulty is the same as other majors, almost the same as law majors. There are very few schools that offer a master's degree in intellectual property, and there are very few people taking the exam, so it shouldn't be too difficult.
To sum up, I wonder what the background of the original poster is? If you graduated from high school this year and got admitted to the undergraduate major in intellectual property, it would not be a good idea. I suggest you prepare a second major early, study a science and engineering major, and do intellectual property work. You must have a science and engineering major before you can engage in patent work. Obtain patent agent qualification through work in this area. Otherwise, you must have a very good academic background, legal academic background, and very good grades to have the opportunity to work in intellectual property in some large companies.
Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are the four major intellectual property rights. After graduation and at the beginning of your career, you have no choice but to take whatever position you find in any company. There is nothing you can do about it. Therefore, it is better to know more about general lawyer business, not only intellectual property rights, but also general civil and commercial law, contract law, company law, labor law, traffic law, and marriage law, and the employment opportunities are wider. After that, it will take at least two or three years to become familiar with social rules before you can consider specializing in a certain direction, such as intellectual property.