What are the responsibilities and job description for the Patent Agent position at Thermo Fisher?
How will you make an impact?
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
What will you do?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Patent Agent to join our Bioproduction Group supporting all types of instruments related to the BioProduction business including its single-use fermenters, bioreactors, and mixers as well as process controllers, centrifuges, cell therapy systems and related. You will closely partner with R&D, product management, and in- and out-licensing functions, as well as other team members supporting this business, to identify and capture new innovation, draft and prosecute patent applications, provide freedom-to-operate and landscape analyses, perform competitor analyses, and to run a large, global IP portfolio in order to strengthen and protect Thermo Fisher’s position as a market leader in bioproduction. This is a phenomenal opportunity to develop your critical thinking! The Patent Agents at Thermo Fisher develop a strong understanding of the businesses they support and provide sound and timely legal guidance relating to IP.
How will you get here?
Essential Qualifications:
- Experience in invention harvesting, patent preparation and prosecution, portfolio development, and prior art and patent searching
- A degree in mechanical engineering or similar field and software experience preferred;
- Outstanding communication skills, both written and interpersonal, a collaborative instinct, and a high level of initiative
- Two or more years of experience preparing and prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications (writing samples will be requested) in the mechanical arts
- Registration to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Preferred Qualifications:
- An advanced degree in engineering or related field;
- Experience with biology and biochemistry related production processes strongly preferred;
- Ability to work in a team and communicate IP matters with colleagues in R&D/business and the ability to form effective relationships
- Ability to prioritize and balance multiple projects at once
- Innovative and self-motivated to provide the highest level of service to the business (get the job done) with speed and accuracy
- Must have a creative and strategic approach and ability to challenge the status quo including wanting to find a better way
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.
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