The lawyer mentioned in the article apparently took eight years to get his Ph.D in physics from Old Dominion University; he worked as a patent examiner for a year or so of that time. He then went to law school at GW, which is a pipeline school for patent attorneys, during which he worked as a "technical advisor" (usually means a drafter of patent applications) and then patent agent for different law firms. After law school, he held several jobs for a few months to a few years each, before opening his own practice, and then co-founding "Insigne LLC." He got his five-year undergrad B.S. in engineering physics in 1992; that would put him at roughly 51 to 52 years old now.

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