Job Description

To gear **** up for the innovation-driven economy set out by the Research Innovation & Enterprise 2025 Masterplan, a new Enterprise Division (“Enterprise”) is being established in late-2020. Enterprise will further strengthen **** in generating economic and societal impact for Singapore. Importantly, Enterprise Division will provide coherence to ****’s RCA, licensing, and venture creation efforts. It will drive ****’s companies strategy and companies portfolio management. Enterprise will also play a national role in terms of grants administration, over-watching national platforms like DxD Hub, and the Aerospace Programme, among others. It will be the focal point to drive Innovation & Enterprise (I&E) within ****, as well as actively support I&E efforts in the wider ecosystem.

As part of the Intellectual Property Management team, you will: The candidate is required to:

• Evaluating technology disclosures for intellectual property (IP) protection, determination of encumbrances due to prior disclosures, pre-existing agreements and analysis of the IP with respect to state of the art and IP trending of the technology.
• Reviewing patenting actions and interfacing with inventors and patent agents to resolve patent filing matters to thereby obtain and maintain granted patents.
• Establishing an **** patent portfolio that supports **** in achieving research excellence and commercialization objectives.
• Training staff on IP knowledge including copyright and patenting characteristics, concepts and considerations to thereby develop IP-savvy researchers.

• Background in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biochemistry or Microbology or Chemistry
• Prior experience in handling IP related work experience will be advantageous