Internship Code: GZLA01

Company Description:

This company is a competitive firm specializing in providing high-quality value-added Intellectual Property services. The firm provides a wide range of services in the field of Intellectual property to clients, including registration of trademarks, invention patents, utility models and designs. Other common services that they offer are trademark search, trademark opposition, trademark assignment, trademark renewal etc. Also offered services include patent analysis, FTO, patent landscaping, patent mining and strategic management. The firm has offices spreading several cities in China including Beijing, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhuhai, Yangjiang and Xi’an.

The firm possesses a team of trademark agents, patent agents and analysts. With rich practical experience, they cooperate with many well-known overseas Intellectual property firm and law firms. The core team consists of veteran professionals with backgrounds in government, corporation, IP & law firm fields. The company has served variously sized clients from local and abroad with high satisfaction.

The firm adheres to their service principle of “offering higher quality service than promised within the contract” with the ultimate goal of adding value to client’s business, and they sincerely wish to cooperate with their clients and offer them all-around services for the protection of their innovations and intellectual property rights in China and abroad.

Internship Position:

Patent Landscape Analyst & Data Analyst Internship

Internship Description:

The firm offers a variety of roles that could include the following projects:

Patent Landscape Analyst

  • Search, analyse and do patent landscape for green technologies in certain jurisdictions (to be determined after exchanges between intern and the firm)
  • Utilising patent data accessing tool: official website of certain IPO (intellectual property office) and professional platforms
  • Summarise the search and analysis results with a report which will be published for public access (having a paper published in a journal when appropriate)
  • Other related tasks assigned by department leaders

Patent Court Data Analyst

  • Collect and compile patent court data in certain jurisdictions (to be determined after exchanges between intern and the firm)
  • Describe how to access and leverage such data
  • Summarise the sources for such data and quick SWOT analysis (with a report which will be published for public access)
  • Other related tasks assigned by department leaders

Post-Exam Patent Data Analyst

  • Collect and compile post-exam (including re-exam and/or invalidation etc.) patent data in certain jurisdictions (to be determined after exchanges between intern and the firm)
  • Research and describe how to access and leverage such data
  • Summarise the sources for such data and quick SWOT analysis (with a report which will be published for public access)
  • Other related tasks assigned by department leaders

Internship Requirements:

  • A degree in Law, Computer Science, Data Analysis is preferred but all degrees are welcome – having an interest in the topic is key!
  • Proficient in office software
  • Good communication skills and organization and coordination ability, pioneering ability, positive and optimistic, hard-working
  • Work with passion and willpower
  • English is a must; Chinese language could be a great plus

Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!