Career as Intellectual property right
Innovation is a key determinant of the global competitiveness of businesses. IP companies are those who produce intellectual property (IP) or who apply IP in producing their goods and services. IP companies contribute substantially to India’s output and employment and generate a large number of well-paying jobs.
In coming decade, India has the potential to be one of the world’s leading markets for intellectual property (IP) industries. In today's economic climate, valuation of companies is based more on the value of their intellectual property than on the value of "harder assets" such as inventory, plants and equipment. The real growth has been in the computer, telecommunications, pharmaceutical and other related industries. Because the companies in these fields have committed enormous resources to the development of inventions and the products that accompany them, they are also more than willing to commit enormous resources to protect their intellectual property. Recent actions by the Indian government in 2012, such as the issuance of the first compulsory license for a kidney cancer medication has caused stir in IP industry increasing the relevance of IP in pharmaceutical space.
Job Profile
- Review invention disclosures from inventors
- Conduct patentability searches
- Analyze, Draft and file patent applications
- Conduct correspondence with the local Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)
- Works at PTO
- Assess applications for patents by ascertaining that the invention is new, not merely an adjustment to something which already exists, carrying out searches and making sure application meets all requirements of Patent Office
- Making a final decision as to the novelty of the invention, which is written in a final report
- The Patents are granted, re-examined, reissued by Patent Examiners
- Occasionally, becoming involved in specialized work, such as intellectual property policy, information retrieval and publicity
- Domain Experts
- Assist attorney and agents
- Making a final decision as to the novelty of the invention, which is written in a final report
- Coordinate patent application filings in local and foreign countries
- Engaged in high end jobs, such as Patent Valuation, Patent Licensing
Skills required
- Collaboration skills
- Emotional intelligence
- Financial literacy
- Project management
- Technological affinity
- Time management
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- Bailiff
- Barrister
- Barristers' clerk
- Company secretary
- Coroner
- Court administrative officer
- Court legal adviser
- Court usher
- Credit controller
- Crown prosecutor
- Equalities officer
- Family mediator
- Football/sports agent
- Forensic psychologist
- Legal executive
- Legal secretary
- Licensed conveyancer
- Paralegal
- Patent attorney
- Private investigator
- Probation officer
- Probation services officer
- Registrar of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
- Solicitor
- Tax inspector
- Trade mark attorney
- Trading standards officer
- Victim care officer
- Welfare rights officer
Earnings
: £15,000-£20,000 per annum
Recruiting Companies
- Wipo
- Facelook
- Pirate Bay
How do I get there?
Option 1:
- Bachelors In Intellectual property right
- Masters In Intellectual property right
Pathway Courses
Where to study?
- Abertay University
- Brandeis University
- CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY SAN ANTONIO
- Charles University
- Daugavpils University
- Durham University
- EBS University of Business and Law
- Edge Hill University
- Georgia State University
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Independent College
- International School of Management
- Jagiellonian University
- James Cook University
- Keele University
- London Metropolitan University
- Manchester University
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Rider University
- Riga Graduate School of Law
- Robert Gordon University (ICRGU)
- St Lawrence College
- Swansea University
- Tallinn University of Technology
- Tbilisi State University
- The University of Nottingham
- Tiffin University
- University College EFFECTUS – College for Finance and Law
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Birmingham
- University of Deusto
- University of East Anglia
- University of Fernando Pessoa
- University of Hertfordshire
- University of Iowa
- University of Kent
- University of Leeds
- University Of Limerick
- University of Lincoln
- University of Liverpool
- University of Minho
- University of Miskolc
- UNIVERSITY OF PECS
- University of Portsmouth
- UNIVERSITY OF REZEKNE
- University of Rochester
- University of Silesia
- University of South Wales
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- University of Warwick
- University of Westminster
- Uppsala University
- Ventspils University College
- VILNIUS UNIVERSITY
- Witchita State University
- York University