A software Engineer develops and maintains software, Electronics Engineer deals with electronics gadgets, similarly, Patent Engineer deals with patent prosecution and maintenance.
A software Engineer develops and maintains software, Electronics Engineer deals with electronics gadgets, similarly, Patent Engineer deals with patent prosecution and maintenance.
A Patent Engineer is a person who:
- Understands technology
- Finds old technologies already known to public
- Drafts application carefully
- Files application
- Convinces patent office for getting a patent
- Identifies economic asset
- Protects invention from counterfeits and fake products
Role of Patent Engineer in a firm
- Understanding client: Application drafting is impossible without meeting and understanding the client’s invention. The Patent Engineer performs this task as he is supposed to draft the application.
- Creating application: Indian patent law restricts the patentability of certain inventions like software, business methods etc. Application should be drafted according to those rules.
- Managing complete team: This professional generally manages Patents department. Main duties are:
- Designating different steps of prosecution to right team
- Keeping check on completion of activities
- Coordination with rest of the team: Patent Engineer studies trends of the current market. For proper functioning of several departments, Analysis report generated by patent engineer is important.
Where do Patent Engineers work?
Patent Engineers are commonly seen in the innovation industry. Inventors & Patent Engineers play significant role in these companies.
‘Inventors invent and patent engineers protect’
Thee companies innovate and hire professionals to work on these inventions. As I discussed earlier, Patent Engineer will draft application to be field in patent office. Also, he will protect application from infringement.
Scope of this career
A Patent Engineer can earn better than other Engineering professions. Lets take example of Software Engineers:
Starting salary of Software Engineer will vary from 14,000 to 22,500 per month whereas Patent Engineer can easily get starting package of 3 lakhs.
Other Engineering profiles do not promise such salary growth. From past 2 years, I’ve been meeting Patent Engineers and collected following data:
- Salary Growth
- Career growth
How this profession can help you?
Even after graduating from an Engineering college, getting a job is most difficult task. You already know you didn’t get desired results by following others.
So, why don’t we try new route to reach our destination?
Do you think working in IBM, WIPRO, Dell or your dream company is difficult?
Or you are trying it in the wrong way?
Why not try something new?
Patent Engineer can learn new things in this industry. Moreover, salary hike is perfect & job will be stable. However, other Engineering profiles are affected from trends and salary may not satisfy the candidate.
According to me, this profession can be beneficial for people looking out for jobs in their technical field. As this field is new and ready to accommodate technical people. So, it can also be helpful for unemployed Engineers. Finally I would like to add that Engineers are talented and can try their luck here.
