Senior Research Analyst

Key Responsibility Area (KRA):

• Draft Patent Applications for inventions in the field of Computer Science, Information and communication technologies.
• Deliver prosecution projects including independently formulating response strategy for office actions along with complete draft responses to office actions.
• Draft provisional specifications and complete patent applications including well-crafted claim sets that conform to US and EP patent legal and procedural standards.
• Mentor team members on assigned technology areas and provide direction and guidance to team members for drafting and/or prosecution work.
• Apply process knowledge to produce consistent, high-quality results in assigned tasks.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelors or Masters in engineering/technology from a reputed institute.
• Excellent domain knowledge in ICT field (Information and Communication Technologies).
• 4+ years of experience in patent drafting and/or prosecution with at least two years of experience in patent drafting for US jurisdiction.
• Experience of drafting 50+ patent applications for US domain.
• Excellent comprehension skills, reading and understanding of technical literature, patent publication. Robust understanding of latest and upcoming technologies. Sound basics in the area of expertise.
• Excellent articulation skills to explain/ discuss with inventors/attorneys/colleagues.
• Strong analytical skills to analyze prior arts and potentially infringing products to decide scope of claims.

Excellent (persuasive) writing skills to draft convincing arguments. Understanding of latest case rulings would be an added advantage.