Patent engineer

The term patent engineer is not a protected professional title and is used partly inconsistent in business practice. From a historic point, those employees of a company are titled with a university degree in engineering or science, which dealt with the issues of intellectual property law, as patent engineers.

The term patent counsel is a job title under both patent agents, patent engineers as skilled employees have not completed engineering or science degree can also be classified in the field of intellectual property law.

Patent engineers may advise only within their company in the field of intellectual property law. A consultation by a third party would be a breach of the Legal Services Act, which permits this activity only certified patent attorneys

Professional activities

As an engineering - or science -trained professional with specific additional qualifications of a patent engineer in the company is primarily responsible for the following tasks and problems in the context of corporate patent system:

  • Support and advice of the departments in patent issues
  • Conducting patent searches
  • Testing of new technical developments on protection ability and worthiness
  • Formulations of patent applications and obtaining patents
  • Management of patent portfolios
  • Clarification of property rights matters
  • Own defense and monitoring of third party trademarks
  • Acquisition of mediator between the Management, the departments and external patent attorneys in matters of invention and the patent system
  • Support of innovation management
  • Represent the company before the German Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office
  • Participation in the award of licenses to industrial property rights or acquiring the licenses of third party trademarks

Training

The education or training for a patent or patent engineer speakers via special (remote) courses or courses at universities, which include as a key element the topic of " Intellectual Property ". The future patent engineer or referee may obtain in this way the necessary expertise in patent, utility model, registered design, trademark and copyright.

The following study programs exist:

The job title for the engineer is after his additional training " ( diploma) Patent Engineer "; the scientist (physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, etc. ) is called " patent counsel ." ( The results from the country's legal definition of an engineer. ) Colloquially, it is sometimes referred to as the "inventor consultant ".

As a full-time presence Course " Patent Engineering " in Germany is offered unique on the East Bavarian Technische Hochschule Amberg -Weiden. By the summer semester of 2011 with the degree " Dipl. -Ing. ( FH) for the patent system " ( after 8 semesters ) and since the winter semester 2011/ 2012 with the European unified academic degree" Bachelor of Engineering for Patents " (after 7 semesters ). The Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin offers to continue forming one-semester distance learning " Patent Law for Engineers and Scientists / Intellectual Property " at. It is completed with a certificate. The two-semester course " Intellectual Property " at the University of Hagen is offered for the last time, according to the decision of the local Faculty of Mathematics and computer science in the summer semester 2011. It is completed with a certificate.

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  • Patent Law ( Germany )
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