Analyst, Intellectual Property (IP)

Job Title

Job Summary

A member of Avients 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 Avients R&D teams and other stakeholders worldwide. Coordinating with Avients IP attorneys and other IP team members, the Analyst, Intellectual Property contributes to the organizations 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.

Role & 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.

Preferred candidate profile

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 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.

Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EHS&S) Requirements

• Avient integrates EHS&S into all aspects of our operations. Each position at Avient is responsible for complying with all applicable EHS&S requirements. Additionally, employees and management are responsible for reporting all EHS&S incidents immediately to ensure we keep EHS&S a priority within the organization.
• Security includes physical security and cyber security.