At present, there are two kinds of patent engineers. One is a patent engineer working in an enterprise. Generally, only superficial work is done in patent, mainly patent retrieval, application, management and rights protection. However, it is generally difficult to reach these levels. More often, enterprises cooperate with patent agencies, and patent engineers assist patent agencies in technical exchanges between enterprises and patent agencies, which is not difficult and does not require patent agent qualification certificates.
The other is a patent engineer working in a patent agency. Relatively speaking, he is a professional patent engineer. Those who pass the national patent agent examination are patent agents. Like the judicial examination, the passing rate of the patent agent examination is not high, and many senior patent engineers working in government agencies have failed the patent agent examination.
The main work is:
1, fully responsible for patent application writing, domestic and foreign patent applications, reply of examination opinions, examination and invalid patent applications;
2. Help enterprises to do patent retrieval, patent analysis and industry early warning, and provide professional intellectual property strategy suggestions;
3. Assist lawyers to handle patent legal affairs such as patent litigation. Only those who need a bachelor's degree or above and have a background in science and engineering are eligible to take the patent agent examination. Working in a patent agency requires higher professional knowledge such as machinery, electronics and chemical industry.