Great ideas do not discriminate, and anyone can have them. Given the right protection and support, a great idea can become a powerful brand, a transformative technology, an innovative process or design, or even a song or story that moves one’s soul. Housing Singapore’s largest community of intellectual property (IP) experts, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) understands better than anyone how important it is to protect ideas and creations for now and for the future. We leverage our deep technical, legal and business expertise to help innovative enterprises grow, through their intangible assets, including IP, from Singapore, through Singapore. We catalyse the ideas of today, into the assets of tomorrow.

ROLE

This position requires you to apply scientific and technical knowledge to the concepts of patent law. You will be required to assess whether an invention is new and judge whether the invention has a technical and legal basis to be granted a patent in Singapore.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyse patent applications and identify technical concepts relating to an invention;
• Conduct searches of the state-of-the-art using specialised databases to investigate whether an invention is new;
• Conduct substantive examination to ensure an invention complies with patentability criteria required for a patent to be granted;
• Communicate with applicants or their patent agents through written opinions to present examination outcomes;
• Consider submissions filed in response to written opinions to advance the prosecution, conducting interviews with applicants or their patent agents to clarify positions where necessary.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Interpret patent law and apply guidelines in the examination of patent applications;
• Assess patent applications within area of technical expertise and areas at the periphery;
• Formulate search strategies for uncovering prior art documents in a cost-efficient manner;
• Communicate, in writing and verbally, technical and legal arguments, to facilitate prosecution;
• Discuss and offer technical expertise to peers for inventions that cut across technological domains;
• Keep pace with technological developments..