Intern – Intellectual Property (Location: Chandigarh)

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The IP intern will be typically involved in understanding technical documents and publications while working in teams to help the client in finding similar documents or products.

Position:  Intern – Intellectual Property

Experience: Fresher

Educational Requirement: B. Tech / B.E. – All engineering domains except Civil

Position type: Internship

Location: Chandigarh, India

Compensation: Best in the industry
 Key Responsibilities:

  • Technical analysis of patent documents.
  • Making a good understanding of the technology disclosed within the document.
  • Searching for documents similar to the studied documents.
  • Searching for products that work in a manner similar to that disclosed in the patent document.
  • Working in close collaboration with experts on technology litigations to help them in preparing technical infringement/non-infringement theories.
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis of patent portfolios from a technical and business perspective.
  • Technology evaluations.

Desired Skills:

  • Strong technical understanding.
  • Passion for technology and keen interest in creative, non-obvious problem solving.
  • Good communication and presentation skills.
  • Good aptitude and written English.
  • Result oriented.
  • Ability to work independently and with teams.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • B.E. / B. Tech in any engineering domains except Civil

Intern – Client Aquisition (Location: Chandigarh)

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The Intern will approach potential customers with the aim of winning new business, as well as maintaining good relationships with clients.

Position: Intern – Client Acquisition

Experience: Fresher

Educational Requirement: Any graduate or Postgraduate (MBA/PGDM) or relevant job experience in this field

Position type: Internship

Internship Period: 6 Months

Location: Chandigarh, India

Compensation: Best in the industry
Key Responsibilities:

  • Cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business.
  • Listening to customer requirements and presenting appropriately to make a sale.
  • Maintaining and developing relationships with existing customers in person and via telephone calls and emails.
  • Responding to incoming email and phone enquiries.
  • Promote Citius Minds services among decision makers in US Law Firms and International Corporations.
  • Consistently follow up with clients to ensure their satisfaction with delivery, quality and customer service.

Desired Skills:

  • Excellent verbal (English) and written (email) communication skills.
  • Willingness and ability to work in flexible hours (night shift).
  • Good problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Effective time management.
  • Ability to learn quickly and adapt to dynamic office environment.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Any graduate or Postgraduate (MBA/PGDM) or relevant job experience in this field
  • Should have knowledge / interest in KPO industry.
  • Experience in sales, business development / client development, client management and client acquisition will be appreciated.

Intern – Intellectual Property – Chemical/Biology (Location: Chandigarh)

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The intern will be typically involved in understanding technical documents and publications related to Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology and related specializations while working in teams to help the client in finding similar documents or products.

Position:  Intern – Intellectual Property

Experience: Fresher

Educational Requirement: B.E./B.Tech/M.Tech with specialization in Chemical, Biology, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Pharmaceuticals and related branches or specializations

Position type: Internship

Internship Period: 6 Months

Location: Chandigarh, India

Compensation: Best in the industry
Key Responsibilities:

  • Technical analysis of patent documents.
  • Making a good understanding of the technology disclosed within the document.
  • Searching for documents similar to the studied documents.
  • Searching for products that work in a manner similar to that disclosed in the patent document.
  • Working in close collaboration with experts on technology litigations to help them in preparing technical infringement/non-infringement theories.
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis of patent portfolios from a technical and business perspective.
  • Technology evaluations.

Desired Skills:

  • Good understanding of chemical compounds, chemical reactions, biological systems, drug delivery systems, biological processes, cells or cellular components, etc.
  • Strong technical understanding.
  • Passion for technology and keen interest in creative, non-obvious problem solving.
  • Good communication and presentation skills.
  • Good aptitude and written English.
  • Result oriented.
  • Ability to work independently and with teams.

Eligibility Criteria:

B.E./B.Tech/M.Tech with specialization in Chemical, Biology, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Pharmaceuticals and related branches or specializations

Associate – Client Development (Location: Chandigarh/NCR)

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The Associate – Client Development will approach potential customers with the aim of winning new business, as well as maintaining good relationships with clients. They will also be responsible for making repeat sales to their employer’s existing customers.

Position: Associate – Client Development

Experience: 0-3 years

Educational Requirement: Any graduate or Postgraduate (MBA/PGDM – Any Specialization; Sales Management preferred)

Position type: Permanent

Location: Chandigarh & NCR, India

Compensation: Best in the industry
Job Requirements: Key responsibilities of the Associate – Client Development shall include:

  • Research prospective clients through internet research, trade show lists, referrals, yellow pages, various professional directories and personal investigation.
  • Create and maintain accurate client data.
  • Listening to customer requirements and presenting appropriately to make a sale.
  • Maintaining and developing relationships with existing customers in person and via telephone calls and emails.
  • Cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business.
  • Responding to incoming email and phone enquiries.
  • Acting as a contact between a company and its existing and potential markets.
  • Negotiating the terms of an agreement and closing sales.
  • Gathering market and customer information.
  • Challenging any objections with a view to getting the customer to buy.
  • Creating detailed proposal documents, often as part of a formal bidding process which is largely dictated by the prospective customer.
  • Reviewing your own sales performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets.
  • Gaining a clear understanding of customers’ businesses and requirements.
  • Making accurate, rapid cost calculations and providing customers with quotations.
  • Promote Citius Minds services among decision makers in US Law Firms and International Corporations.
  • Consistently follow up with clients to ensure their satisfaction with delivery, quality and customer service.
  • attending team meeting and sharing best practice with colleagues.

Desired Skills:

  • Excellent written (email) and verbal English communication skills.
  • Willingness and ability to work flexible hours.
  • Minimum 1 year international sales, or US based customer interface experience.
  • Previous working experience in selling knowledge based services like business research, IP research, data analytics, etc. to technology companies is a plus.
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.
  • Commercial awareness.
  • Effective time management.
  • Ability to learn quickly and adapt to dynamic office environment.

Eligibility Criteria:

  •  Any graduate or Postgraduate (MBA/PGDM – Any Specialization; Sales Management preferred)
  •  Working with MS Office Suite is essential.
  •  Should have knowledge / interest in KPO industry.
  •  Should have experience in sales, business development / client development, client management and client acquisition.
  • Freshers with excellent communication skills are also welcome.

Senior Patent Specialist in Operations (Location: Chandigarh)

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The Senior Patent Specialist will be typically involved in performing various patent related projects, managing teams, interacting with clients and communicating their requirements to the team.

Position: Senior Patent Specialist

Experience: 3-6 years

Educational Requirement: B. Tech / B.E. / M. Tech – All engineering domains

Position type: Permanent

Location: Chandigarh, India

Compensation: Best in the industry
Job Requirements: Key responsibilities of the Senior Patent Specialist shall include:

  • Project management, Client meetings & interactions.
  • Client Relationship Management & Business Development.
  • Recruitment & Training.
  • Mentoring/Evaluation.
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis of patent portfolios from a legal, technical and business perspective.
  • Working in close collaboration with experts on technology litigations to help them in preparing technical infringement/non-infringement theories.
  • Finding ‘Evidence of Use’ from publically available sources and preparing claim charts for product infringements.
  • Performing patentability (novelty), validity, freedom-to-operate and infringement searches.
  • Conducting patent landscape analysis, competitive intelligence, licensing related research projects.
  • Patent Application Drafting.
  • Performing effective client communication and preparing high quality client-ready reports.

 Desired Skills:

  • Led a team independently on variety of IP research projects
  • Performed patentability (novelty), validity, freedom-to-operate and infringement searches
  • Performed Landscape and portfolio analysis from a legal, technical and business perspective.
  • Good understanding of patent databases and other proprietary technical databases.
  • Performed effective client communication and prepared high quality client-ready reports
  • Performed Evidence-Of-Use studies and prepared product-to-patent mappings
  • Well versed with Quality Check procedures involved in different IP projects
  • Good knowledge of worldwide patent laws and procedures.

 Eligibility Criteria:

  • B.E. / B. Tech/ M. Tech in Computer Science Engineering.
  • Experience of 3-6 years in the patent services industry.
  • Candidate should possess good aptitude and excellent written English.