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Where an intellectual property consultant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an intellectual property consultant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Intellectual property consultants provide advice on the usage of intellectual property assests such as patents, copyrights, and trademarks. They help clients to value, in monetary terms, intellectual property portfolios, to follow adequate legal procedures for protecting of such property, and to perform patent brokerage activities.

Also known as patent agent, patent broker, information broker, IP adviser, intellectual property adviser, patent specialist, IP specialist, intellectual properties consultant, patent expert, patent consultant, IP consultant, IP expert.

Technicians and associate professionals 30 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: patent engineer, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
patent engineer 51% covered legal consultant 40% covered prosecutor 35% covered corporate lawyer 32% covered court jury coordinator 29% covered intellectual property con… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from intellectual property consultant, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an intellectual property consultant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An intellectual property consultant needs 13 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • advise on patents communication, collaboration and creativity
  • security engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • provide legal advice communication, collaboration and creativity
  • legal terminology business, administration and law
  • ensure law application assisting and caring
  • market research business, administration and law
  • monitor legislation developments information skills
  • use consulting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
  • intellectual property law business, administration and law
  • protect client interests communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an intellectual property consultant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Intellectual property consultant is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an intellectual property consultant’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.