u/ProductDevDapo

I’m a product development engineer and recently worked on a project where our IP team provided engineering with a large number of patents to review. It got me curious how this works at other companies.

Do you receive a list of potentially relevant patents, specific claims, claim charts, design constraints, or some kind of summary?

And who determines relevance? Does IP/legal narrow things down first, or is engineering expected to review the patents and identify what applies to the product?

If something looks problematic, how do engineering and IP/legal work together to develop and evaluate alternatives?

I’m a product development engineer and I’m curious how other engineers experience this.

Have you ever been working on a new product and discovered, after development was already underway, that an existing patent created a potential problem with the design?

If so, how far along were you when it came up? Did you have to redesign anything?

Also curious who typically catches these issues at your company: engineering, an internal IP/legal team, outside patent counsel, or someone else?

I’m a product development engineer and I’m curious how other engineers experience this.

Have you ever been working on a new product and discovered, after development was already underway, that an existing patent created a potential problem with the design?

If so, how far along were you when it came up? Did you have to redesign anything?

Also curious who typically catches these issues at your company: engineering, an internal IP/legal team, outside patent counsel, or someone else?