Job Responsibilities

·      Performing prior art search for invention disclosures or patents

·      Performing freedom-to-Operate search for new products/projects

·      Performing patent monitoring on 3^rd parties

·      Performing state-of-the-art search to evaluate technology or products

·      Analyzing search results and providing search reports to IP counsels

·      Analyzing technology landscape of patent portfolios

Required Skills

·      Ability to deal with multi-disciplinary technological aspects of the subjects

·      Proficient at reading and summarizing technical documents

·      Excellent oral and written communication skills

·      Additional language skill (Japanese or German) is preferred

Required Experience

·      Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering or science (ME is preferred)

·      1-3 years experience in technology/engineering/patent law