Analyst, Intellectual Property

Job Summary:

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.

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.

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.