Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a patent engineer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a patent engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Patent engineers advise companies on different aspects of intellectual property law. They analyse inventions, and research their economic potential. They check if patent rights have already been given out for an invention and ensure that these rights have not been affected or violated.

Also known as patent agent, patent scientist, patent and trademark engineer, intellectual property engineer, technical patent specialist.

Professionals 34 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: intellectual property consultant, 46%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
intellectual property consult… 46% covered prosecutor 21% covered transport engineer 20% covered legal consultant 20% covered agricultural engineer 19% covered patent engineer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from patent engineer, 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 a patent engineer 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

A patent engineer needs 14 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
  • create patent draft communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise on patents communication, collaboration and creativity
  • patents business, administration and law
  • present arguments persuasively communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide legal advice communication, collaboration and creativity
  • legal terminology business, administration and law
  • market analysis business, administration and law
  • ensure law application assisting and caring
  • market research business, administration and law
  • financial analysis business, administration and law
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a patent engineer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Patent engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 a patent engineer’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.