Patent Watch Engineer

Job Details

• Job: Patent Watch Engineer
• Organization: Intellectual Property
• Schedule: Full time
• Employee Status: Regular
• Job Type: Permanent contract

Responsibilities

• Follow-up Report on new patent publications from third parties: Monthly report on new patent publications, ranked by Product Lines / technical fields, relevance, etc..
• Follow-up of the RD new projects (Planning - Prior art searches)
• IP landscaping to identify technological/IP trend: Build regular IP landscape report on selected topic, in relation with RD/RI needs, help understanding competitors RD strategy
• IP landscaping to identify technological/IP trend: Searching patent database to detect technological trends, whitespace and region of monopole
• Prior art searches: Realizing prior art searches e. g. for patent clearances, patentability studies, patent mappings in cooperation with RD
• Training people (Project team members, ) to search tools and methods
• Optimizing search tools
• Developing tools to retrieve previous searches
• Developing an advanced knowledge of competitors patents within PG perimeter
• Prior Art database (if any): Management of a customized database containing all the patents related to the Division or PG or RI activities,
• Developing tools to permit an easy retrieval of patents according to certain criteria;
• Monitoring with technical experts the indexation of patents in the database and putting some additional information for each of them;
• Managing access to the database (restricted access to added information, i.e. non public);
• Applying the Environment Safety and Security procedures and good practices; know for their activities and the activities of subcontractors the potential risks and their consequences. Be attentive and responsive to them and manage the associated action plans.