Patent examiner
CIVIL SERVANT WORKING IN A PATENT OFFICE
Patent examiners; Examiner (patent); Patents examiner; Patents clerk; Patents officer; Patent officer; Patent clerk; Patent office examiner; Patent Examiner; Examiner of patent
A patent examiner (or, historically, a patent clerkThe title "patent clerk" is used for instance in Gary Stix, The Patent Clerk's Legacy, Scientific American, September 2004 (an article about Albert Einstein).) is an employee, usually a civil servant with a scientific or engineering background, working at a patent office.