A Senior Patent Examiner is mainly deployed on performing the duties under the Patents Ordinance (Cap. 514) in relation to substantive examination of original grant patent applications and short-term patents as well as provision of technical input and all necessary assistance in relation to hearings and other examination tasks.

Candidates should have -

• (a)a bachelor's degree with second class honours or above in one or more subject
• (s)in the field of Electricity* from a local university in Hong Kong, or equivalent; and
• (b)
  • (i)at least four years of experience in substantive examination of patent applications in an intellectual property/patent office (“substantive examination experience”); or
  • (ii)at least six years of experience in prosecuting tasks relating to substantive examination of patent applications in English or Chinese, including but not limited to drafting patent specification and claims, providing advice on issues on patentability, prosecution of patent applications and other pre-grant or post-grant patent related issues, such as patent validity (“patent prosecution experience”); or
  • (iii)at least five years of substantive examination experience and patent prosecution experience, with a minimum of two years of substantive examination experience.

* The major fields of Electricity are broadly classified to include, but not limited to, the following technical subjects:

Electricity:- Applied Physics; Computer Engineering; Computer Science; Electrical Engineering; Electricity; Electronic Engineering; Information Engineering; Information Technology; Internet & Multimedia Technologies; Physics; Telecommunication