Patent Watch Engineer

Valeo; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo in India (Chennai) seeks an IP analyst to manage follow-up and reporting on patent publications, perform prior art searches, and develop IP landscape insights. You will train team members, optimize search tools, and maintain a customized patent database with controlled access.

This role supports R&D and strategic planning with a focus on competitive patent intelligence. The position emphasizes building regular landscape reports, detecting trends, and improving search methods within a

Qualifications

• Realizing prior art searches for patent clearances and patentability studies with R&D.
• Training project team members to search tools and methods.
• Optimizing search tools and developing retrieval tools.
• Developing advanced knowledge of competitors' patents within PG perimeter.
• Managing a customized patent database and access restrictions.

Responsibilities

• Monthly report on new patent publications, ranked by product lines/technical fields.
• IP landscape reports to identify trends, whitespace and monopole regions.
• Carry out prior art searches for patent clearance and mappings with R&D.
• Train team members on tools and methods for patent searches.
• Develop tools to retrieve previous searches and monitor database indexation.

Skills

Prior art searches

IP landscaping

Training others

Competitive patent knowledge

Tools

Patent databases

Search tools

Job description

Follow-up & Report on new patent publications from third parties

• Monthly report on new patent publications, ranked by Product Lines / technical fields, relevance, etc..
• Follow-up of the R&D new projects (Planning – Prior art searches)

IP landscaping to identify technological/IP trend

• Build regular IP landscape report on selected topic, in relation with R&D/R&I needs, help understanding competitors R&D strategy
• Searching patent database to detect technological trends, whitespace and region of monopole

Prior art searches

• Realizing prior art searches e. g. for patent clearances, patentability studies, patent mappings in cooperation with R&D
• Training people (Project team members, …) to search tools and methods
• Optimizing search tools
• Developing tools to retrieve previous searches
• Developing an advanced knowledge of competitors patents within PG perimeter

Prior Art database (if any)

• Management of a customized database containing all the patents related to the Division or PG or R&I activities,
• Developing tools to permit an easy retrieval of patents according to certain criteria;
• Monitoring with technical experts the indexation of patents in the database and putting some additional information for each of them;
• Managing access to the database (restricted access to added information, i.e. non public);

Applying the Environment Safety and Security procedures and good practices; know for their activities and the activities of subcontractors the potential risks and their consequences. Be attentive and responsive to them and manage the associated action plans.