First, knowledge related to patent law will be provided with training after joining the company.
Second, the foreign language must be good, because many searches in the biological field require comparative documents in foreign languages.
Third, search skills. The more searches you have, the more experience you will have. You can quickly and accurately search for the closest existing technology.
Fourth, thinking ability, including understanding ability and logical thinking ability, how to combine and compare documents, and from which angles to draw review opinions, all require technical understanding and judgment.
Fifth, written expression skills. Practical reviewers have to send out a lot of notices of review opinions every month. They need to write down their thoughts in words, without any typographical errors, and they must be smooth and reasonable.
Computer skills are a must, especially in the biological field, where professional databases are often used, especially those involving bioinformatics.