Job Summary

A member of Avient’s global IP team and legal department, the role of Analyst, Intellectual Property is primarily responsible for providing patent searching, analysis, and related information services to Avient’s R&D teams and other stakeholders worldwide. Coordinating with Avient’s IP attorneys and other IP team members, the Analyst, Intellectual Property contributes to the organization’s success by accelerating the R&D teams’ understanding of new technical spaces and identifying opportunities that have high potential for IP protection and low risk of being blocked by third party IP rights.

Essential Duties & Resp.
- Thorough knowledge of patent landscaping and competitive analysis using all free and certain licenced (such as Derwent) search platforms.
- Provide overarching patent landscape assessments on platform research projects in a timely fashion.
- Capable of independently developing relevant search strings based on subject matter inputs and executing patent searches, and reporting a concise summary of relevant search results.
- Develop dashboards with regular competitive patent activity assessments for review with segment leadership teams.
- Capable of providing patentability and freedom to practice recommendations in consultation with the Corporate Legal department to business segments based on the identified prior art.
- Capable of coaching and developing junior IP analysts in the team.
- Other projects/duties as assigned.