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About the role
Role Overview
The Associate STEM Content Analyst will join the patent abstraction team within Intellectual Property Operations. The role involves analysing chemistry patents and preparing accurate, editorially enhanced technical abstracts in accordance with the organisation's Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) abstracting policies. The work focuses on extracting and organising technical information from patent records to support patent intelligence products and provide valuable research content to customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare patent abstracts in accordance with the rules specified in the DWPI Abstracting Policy document.
- Conduct detailed analysis of patents to produce accurate, editorially enhanced technical summaries.
- Prepare summaries that include descriptive titles, uses, novel features, advantages, and other key information relating to inventions.
- Extract useful insights from patent data to generate editorially enhanced technical summaries of patent records.
- Use organisation-specific tools for content editing, patent abstraction, and content curation.
- Enrich and curate high-quality content while adhering to individual and team objectives, production targets, and established quality standards.
- Analyse patents to create value-added content for patent intelligence products and their customers.
Qualifications & Experience
- A postgraduate degree in Chemistry, including General, Organic, Inorganic, Physical, or Analytical Chemistry, or an MSc in Polymer Science.
- Strong subject-matter knowledge of chemistry and related technology fields.
- Good understanding of patents.
- Fresh graduates are preferred; candidates with one year of experience in content abstraction or editing may also be considered.
- Strong English comprehension skills.
- Typing certification is an advantage.
- Extensive knowledge of patents and patent drafting is an advantage.
Additional Details
- The position is a permanent, full-time role.
- The team comprises more than 100 colleagues and includes professionals with expertise in life sciences and engineering.
- The role follows working hours of 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. IST.
- The team collaborates with colleagues based in other parts of the world, including the United Kingdom and the United States.
- The employer is committed to equal employment opportunities in hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms and conditions of employment, in accordance with applicable non-discrimination laws and regulations.