Patent Watch Engineer

• Monthly report on new patent publications, ranked by Product Lines / technical fields, relevance, etc..

• Follow-up of the R&D new projects (Planning – Prior art searches)

IP landscaping to identify technological/IP trend

• Build regular IP landscape report on selected topic, in relation with R&D/R&I needs, help understanding competitors R&D strategy  

• Searching patent database to detect technological trends, whitespace and region of monopole
  

Prior art searches

• Realizing prior art searches e. g. for patent clearances, patentability studies, patent mappings in cooperation with R&D

• Training people (Project team members, …) to search tools and methods

• Optimizing search tools

• Developing tools to retrieve previous searches

• Developing an advanced knowledge of competitors patents within PG perimeter
  

Prior Art database (if any)

• Management of a customized database containing all the patents related to the Division or PG or R&I activities,

• Developing tools to permit an easy retrieval of patents according to certain criteria;

• Monitoring with technical experts the indexation of patents in the database and putting some additional information for each of them;

• Managing access to the database (restricted access to added information, i.e. non public);
  

Applying the Environment Safety and Security procedures and good practices; know for their activities and the activities of subcontractors the potential risks and their consequences. Be attentive and responsive to them and manage the associated action plans.