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IP Attorney (m/f/d)

Location:  Munich
Stellen-ID:  24564

G+D makes the lives of billions of people more secure. We develop innovative products and solutions to safeguard payment processes, identities, connectivity, and data. With more than 160 years of experience behind us, we approach each day with renewed energy and passion. We are an international technology group and traditional family-owned company, with over 11,000 employees in 32 countries.
Creating Confidence is our path to success; and it could soon be yours, too.

For our department IP Operations we are looking for an IP Attorney (m/f/d) as soon as possible: 

 

Your Responsibilities: 

  • Be part of IP portfolio teams: Collaborate with the IP Portfolio Managers, IP Catalysts, product management, R&D stakeholders, and other team members, to drive the execution of our IP strategy and the success of the team

  • Convert ideas into control points: Drive the work from assessment of ideas and concepts to invention disclosures, through filing, prosecution, and grant of property rights all the way to IP portfolios that can be used to reach our wanted control points

  • Ensure legal quality of portfolio: Through own work and in collaboration with our external agents, ensure we achieve high-quality and assertable IP rights

  • Analyze 3rd party positions: Drive preparation and issuing of assessments of IP strategic risks, e.g., freedom to operate opinions, opposition/invalidation assessments and recommendations

  • Support use of portfolio: Advice on and support IP portfolio managers and IP transactions managers in infringement opinions, in- and out-licensing, sale and acquisition of IP

  • Advice and educate: Advising our research and development departments on protection tactics and drive IP education for relevant staff

  • Way-of-working: Support the continuous improvement of processes, approach, frameworks, and tools for patent attorney work

 

Your Profile: 

  • Expertise in drafting and prosecuting patent applications: As a graduate of a university degree in one of the fields of physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, or computer science, you have already gained relevant professional experience in the patent department of an industrial company or a patent law firm.

  • Expert knowledge of patent law: Ideally, you have passed the German patent attorney examination or are a certified European Patent Attorney

  • Business acumen: Preferably have working knowledge of portfolio relevant business models, technology, market, and IP landscape

  • An interest and ability to understand state-of-the-art technology

  • Expertise in IP strategic risk assessments

  • Effective communication: Ability to widely communicate with people ranging from business managers to inventors and IP professionals

  • Strong analytical skills as well as being structured and well organized

  • Service-minded with strong customer focus

  • Fluent in English. Proficiency in German is a plus

 

Your Benefits:

  • Flexible working hours with 30 vacation days per year, as well as mobile office by individual arrangement

  • An attractive salary

  • A wide range of up-to-date training and further education opportunities

  • A high degree of creative freedom and development potential

  • An exciting range of tasks as well as opportunities and possibilities to work in an international and dynamic environment

  • Working at eye level with committed and competent colleagues is a matter of course for us

 

$$ We are an equal opportunity employer! We promote diversity in all its forms and create an inclusive work environment, free from prejudice, discrimination and harassment, in which all employees feel a sense of belonging. We warmly welcome all applications regardless of gender, age, race or ethnic origin, social and cultural background, religion, disability and sexual orientation. 

 $$ Claudia Laub $$ career@gi-de.com $$ $$ $$ https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=gieseckede&career_job_req_id=24564&career_ns=job_application

We are looking forward to receiving your application!
Giesecke+Devrient GmbH
Prinzregentenstrasse 161, 81677 Munich
www.gi-de.com/careers
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