Lead Patent Engineer

Job Summary:

The position requires a creative, inquisitive, and technologically adept individual who will work closely with the R&D, legal and IP teams of our customers to drive and support their IP portfolio development, as patent analyst/searcher. The candidate will assist our clients with the successful procurement of patent protection for innovative technologies, through various methods of patent analytics & searching. The candidate will be required to participate in client calls, present the search strategy, participate in scoping of the project, value-add through their technical expertise and specialization areas.

Each Clairvolex client brings novel and diverse technologies as our work assignment. Therefore, the candidate will learn about a variety of new technologies, in addition to their specialization, learn to identify inventive features, learn to describe the inventions, and learn to draw analysis and insights to support our clients to get a patent granted or to support them in their search, analytics and licensing needs.

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Job Responsibilities:

A. Patent Search & IP Analytics:

• Reviewing new client technologies to determine potentially patentable features. Conducting IP searches based on complex and/or comprehensive search strategies using various search engines for prior art identification, knock-out searches, FTO clearance, and invalidity searches.
• Combine search results and produce substantial, logical and complete patent reports for the client. Document the search strategy as well, if within agreed scope.

The below mentioned must-have primary skills are mandatory requirement to be able to demonstrate fair degree of independence in work outcomes. The candidate must be able to:

o Define patent search parameters

o Select & use appropriate patent databases

o Review prior arts

o Analyse findings

o Prepare required search report

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B. IP Market Intelligence Studies:

• Contribute meaningfully to patent landscape analysis projects through in-depth examination of patents and IP related to a specific technology or market, supporting our clients to identify innovation opportunities, avoid infringement risks, and position their IP strategically.
• Prepare comprehensive reports of identified new technology and related and competitive patent environment to develop broad overview & recommendations helping our clients understand the current state of the art, emerging trends, and key players.

The below mentioned must-have primary skills are mandatory requirement to be able to demonstrate fair degree of independence in work outcomes. The candidate must be able to:

o Define purpose and determine the scope (with Project supervisor)

o Search and Collect Patents & Non-Patent Literature (NPL)

o Organise, filter and sanitize data for the study

o Analyse patent trends within technology sub-domains

o Visualise data for the report (good-to-have skill)

Qualification for the position:

Education:

The position requires a Bachelor or Master of Engineering (B.Tech/ M.Tech) in any of the following domains - Electronics, Communications, VLSI from an accredited university.

Experience:

The position requires a minimum of three (3) years and maximum (8) years of relevant IP experience.

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IP Subject Matter & Technology Requirement:

o Strong fundamentals on Basics of Patent Laws, e.g., 35 USC 101, 102, 103, 112, 271, etc. is a must.

o Hands-on knowledge of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and various technology Standards like 3GPP, Codecs, IEEE and such are critical for this position.

o Good knowledge of contemporary technologies like Telecom Generations (4G, 5G, 6G), Computer architecture (memories, multi-processor architecture etc.), Cloud computing, IoT and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.

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Functional Skills & Knowledge Requirement:

o Hands-on expertise in working with IP databases like Questel Orit, Patseer, Derwent, and such.

o Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) is a must. Working knowledge of Macros and VBA is preferred.

o Should be able to work on Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, Filters, Conditional Formatting, Charts, Functions etc.

o Demonstrated attention to detail.

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