Michael Madison, a professor at Pittsburgh, has provided some good advice for any scientist or engineer hoping to move into the field of patent law:
I have two standard responses: One is: run, don’t walk, away from “law school prep courses.” (How to read cases, outline courses, take exams.) They’re worse than useless. They’re useless and expensive. Two is: Read Shakespeare. Or if not Shakespeare, then read Melville. Dickinson. Ellison. Baldwin. Morrison. Borges. Milosz. Pick a major literary figure–any gender, any genre, any era–and read that person’s works. Be literate, in every sense of that word.