Patent Research Analyst | Intellectual Property Research Specialist

Employment Type: Full-Time

Level: Mid-Level to Senior

We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Patent Research Analyst | Intellectual Property Research Specialist to conduct patent searches, analyze intellectual property information, evaluate technology developments, and support IP research and strategy initiatives. This role combines patent landscape analysis, prior art searches, technology intelligence, patent portfolio research, and intellectual property documentation to help the organization make informed decisions regarding innovation, product development, research investments, and IP protection.

The successful candidate will collaborate with R&D teams, engineers, scientists, legal professionals, patent attorneys, product managers, and business stakeholders to identify relevant patents, assess emerging technologies, monitor competitor activities, and translate complex patent information into clear, actionable research findings.

• Conduct patent searches across international patent databases, scientific publications, technical literature, and other relevant information sources.
• Perform prior art searches to identify existing inventions, technologies, publications, and disclosures relevant to new concepts.
• Analyze patent documents, including abstracts, claims, descriptions, drawings, classifications, and bibliographic information.
• Conduct patent landscape studies to identify technology trends, innovation opportunities, competitive activity, and potential research gaps.
• Support patentability assessments by collecting and analyzing relevant prior art for review by qualified IP professionals.
• Assist with preliminary freedom-to-operate research by identifying potentially relevant patent rights and technical disclosures.
• Research patent ownership, inventors, assignees, legal status, filing histories, and patent family relationships.
• Monitor patent filings, publications, grants, expirations, and other developments within designated technology areas.
• Analyze competitor patent portfolios to understand research priorities, product directions, technology strengths, and potential market positioning.
• Prepare patent landscape reports, technology intelligence summaries, search reports, and analytical presentations.
• Develop search strategies using keywords, synonyms, classification codes, inventor names, assignee names, and technical concepts.
• Apply relevant patent classification systems, including the International Patent Classification (IPC) and Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC).
• Use patent analytics tools and visualization methods to identify filing trends, citation patterns, technology clusters, and major patent holders.
• Review scientific papers, technical publications, product disclosures, and conference materials to identify potentially relevant prior art.
• Collaborate with R&D teams to understand invention disclosures and translate technical requirements into effective search strategies.
• Support invention harvesting activities by researching existing technologies and helping teams understand the surrounding patent landscape.
• Identify potential white spaces and emerging research areas through structured patent and non-patent literature analysis.
• Assist with patent portfolio reviews by organizing records, mapping technologies, and identifying relevant research findings.
• Track changes in competitor patent activity and communicate important developments to relevant stakeholders.
• Support due diligence research for technology acquisitions, licensing opportunities, partnerships, and investment evaluations.
• Maintain organized patent databases, research logs, search histories, references, and supporting documentation.
• Verify the accuracy of patent data, publication numbers, filing dates, ownership information, and cited references.
• Prepare concise summaries of technical inventions and patent claims for non-technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate with patent attorneys and legal teams to provide research materials for patent prosecution, opposition, invalidity, and related IP matters.
• Assist with the identification and analysis of potentially relevant patents in support of legal review and dispute-related research.
• Evaluate patent citations and relationships between inventions to understand technology development and influence.
• Support the development of internal research standards, search procedures, analytical templates, and knowledge management…