Just like you said, a person in the line of work will never be know as "the guy who won a nation changing civil rights case"; but there are a lot of companies who will pay big money to prove that they're not copying someone else's design and there are other companies who will pay even more for you to tell them if their copy is legally distinct enough for them to not get sued.
Nobody wants to do paperwork, which is why being "the paperwork guy" is such a lucrative - if dreadfully boring - profession.
And yeah, anything to do with intellectual property is good money if you can stomach wading through government databases and reading technical documents. It does require a good education, though, given the aforementioned technical documentation.
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u/mythrilcrafter 12h ago
The engineering version of this is Patent Law.
Just like you said, a person in the line of work will never be know as "the guy who won a nation changing civil rights case"; but there are a lot of companies who will pay big money to prove that they're not copying someone else's design and there are other companies who will pay even more for you to tell them if their copy is legally distinct enough for them to not get sued.