Company Description:
Hourglass Research is a leading Intellectual Property services firm with offices in San Jose, California, and Bangalore, India. The company provides US Patent Drafting & Prosecution, Patent Analytics & Licensing services to multinational companies and start-ups. We cater to the hi-tech, semiconductor, telecom, software, emerging tech, medical devices, materials, and automotive sectors. Over the past 15 years, Hourglass Research has been consistently chosen by Fortune 500 firms for their US patent drafting and analytics assignments.
As an Associate / Senior Associate, you will:
- Work with leading technology corporations, law firms, and industry experts on patent infringement and licensing matters.
- Work on cutting-edge technologies and closely collaborate with technical experts, attorneys, and licensing teams.
- Analyze complex products, technologies, and standards to identify potential infringement positions and supporting evidence.
- Assist global clients by delivering high-quality infringement analysis, evidence of use (EoU) studies, claim charts, reverse engineering-based assessments, and strategic IP insights.
- Get opportunities to independently investigate technical problems and develop structured, evidence-backed analytical approaches.
Job Description:
- Individual contributor responsible for providing patent infringement and technical analytics support.
- Must have experience in preparing client-ready deliverables including Evidence of Use (EoU) charts, claim charts, reverse mapping studies, product-feature mapping, standards mapping, and infringement analysis reports.
- Ability to understand patent claims and correlate them with product functionalities, technical specifications, standards documents, source code, SDKs/APIs, whitepapers, teardowns, and other publicly available evidence.
- Develop effective investigation and search strategies aligned with client objectives, with strong emphasis on smart searching and evidence identification.
- Hands-on experience in analyzing complex technologies, product ecosystems, and publicly available technical information to support infringement positions.
- Willingness to experiment and improve workflows through automation, macros, dashboards, report optimization, and AI/ML-assisted analysis.
- Contribute towards strengthening and scaling the infringement analytics vertical at Hourglass.
Desired Skillset:
- Hands-on experience across patent databases, technical literature, standards repositories, product documentation, developer resources, and open-source intelligence research.
- Strong understanding of patent claim interpretation and technical feature mapping methodologies.
- Ability to quickly understand and analyze complex technologies across Electronics, Computer Science, Communication, Semiconductor, Software, Networking, AI/ML, Mechanical, and related domains.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to technical accuracy and presentation quality.
- Ability to independently investigate technical problems while collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail in evidence collection and claim mapping.
Education / Professional Qualification and Work Experience:
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical, Electronics, Communication, Computer Science, or related engineering disciplines.
- IP Experience: 1–3 years
Hourglass provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by central, state, or local laws.
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