Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION
A member of Avient's global IP team and legal department, the role of Analyst, Intellectual Property is primarily responsible for providing patent searching, analysis, and related information services to Avient's R&D teams and other stakeholders worldwide. Coordinating with Avient's IP attorneys and other IP team members, the Analyst, Intellectual Property, contributes to the organization's success by accelerating the R&D teams understanding of new technical spaces and identifying opportunities that have high potential for IP protection and low risk of being blocked by third-party IP rights.
Responsibilities
Essential Duties & Resp.
- Thorough knowledge of patent landscaping and competitive analysis using all free and certain licensed (such as Derwent) search platforms.
- Provide overarching patent landscape assessments on platform research projects in a timely fashion.
- Capable of independently developing relevant search strings based on subject matter inputs and executing patent searches, and reporting a concise summary of relevant search results.
- Develop dashboards with regular competitive patent activity assessments for review with segment leadership teams.
- Capable of providing patentability and freedom to practice recommendations in consultation with the Corporate Legal department to business segments based on the identified prior art.
- Capable of coaching and developing junior IP analysts in the team.
- Other projects/duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
- PhD or Masters in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Plastics Technology, or related fields.
- 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably with a multinational company, including 3+ years of patent searching and analysis experience required.
Skills
- Patent searching, landscaping, claim analysis, technical competency and business awareness.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and in a cross-functional collaborative environment.
- Highly self-motivated with a strong sense of self-initiative and focus on continuous improvement.
- Strong IT skills, including proficiency with Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Strong ethics/judgement in handling confidential information with professionalism.
- English language proficiency.
Additional Particulars
- Role requires flexibility in availability to participate as needed in meetings with participants in other regions and time zones, including the Americas and Europe.
- Role may require occasional travel to other Avient sites, including those in and outside of India.
Physical Demands
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long period of time (up to 60% of the workday).
- Must be able to traverse to/from required meetings.
- Must be able to input data into a computer.
- Typically, work is in an office environment where the noise level is low to moderate.
