Your tasks:

• arrange drafting, prosecution and defense of patent applications nationally and internationally

• functional lead of the prosecution team
• support for the monitoring and appeals procedures of industrial property rights of third parties
• Task management between partner law firm and IP department
• advice on development projects and cooperation agreements
• Support in monitoring technology fields and identify opportunities, gaps and risks
• cooperation with R & D / engineering and product management teams to capture innovative ideas, to categorize and review of the potential value of such ideas as well as the coordination of novelty search
• cooperation with the global IP teams inclusive "IP champions" in engineering centers

• Internal patent analysis to determine the strength and value of existing portfolios

• Perform patent analyses of third party portfolios for several business purpose
• maintain a database for the collection of innovation ideas and coordination of permits to track potential patents
• groundwork for national and international litigation and enforcement measures -care of the patent database and coordination of the expenses for their care

• support for the preparation of quarterly reports for all patent and intellectual property activities

• propose applications to extend the patent portfolio to prepare protection of new technologies align with the technology roadmap

-build a patent fence on key technologies especially for the US patent portfolio part

Your profile:

• A completed bachelor's degree in electronics engineering or mechatronics and ideally experience in the patent area

• very good understanding of US patent law for prosecution activities

• registered US Patent Agent

• experience as Patent Agent

• Ideally industrial experience in electronics engineering

• strong technical understanding and a able to learn quick

• strong analytical thinking and systematic

• precise and on-schedule work

• teamwork and active communication skills

• interested in an intercultural working environment

• good computer skills (especially in MS Office)