Job Description

Job Title

IP Counsel

By joining Philips IP&S as an IP Counsel, you are joining an international community of experienced and highly trained IP professionals with a wide range of technical expertise. You are acting as a strategic advisor in IP matters to Philips’ businesses and research organization.

You will provide strategic IP counseling to Philips Hospital Patient Monitoring (HPM) business unit and its research team operating in Europe. You will also help Philips businesses secure competitive advantage by protecting new technical developments and innovations. In addition, you will enforce Philips IP rights against third party infringers, as well as assessing infringement risks of third-party IP rights and securing value for IP in transactions.

In this role you will operate within Philips HPM IP team.

Your role:

• Evaluate invention disclosures with the goal of providing optimal protection and generating maximum long-term value to Philips.
• Prepare, file, and prosecute high quality patent applications meeting international standards. Maintain a substantial and active prosecution docket of European and foreign patent applications.
• Serve as an IP contact person for a selected product category and develop independence in providing strategic guidance and support to the internal stakeholder, by seeking direction from a senior colleague when necessary to ensure alignment with legal standards.
• Provide strategic IP counseling to internal clients, including negotiating and drafting agreements with IP provisions such as strategic collaboration, joint development, licensing, and mergers and acquisitions.
• Working in collaboration with senior IP&S colleagues to enforce Philips IP rights against infringers.
• Assess and manage third party IP risks. When necessary, seek to obtain access to third party IP rights at the lowest cost possible for Philips’ products and services.

You're the right fit if:

• At least a bachelor level degree in science (preferably computer science) or engineering.
• At least partial qualification for the European qualifying examination (EQE) or admission to practice before the China National Intellectual Property Administration and/or the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English is a must and preferably German.
• 5 to 10 years of experience in handling IP matters.

Preferred experience includes:

• Drafting and prosecuting internationally filed patent applications.
• IP risk product assessments.
• Contract drafting and negotiation.

Other desired experience includes:

• IP litigation and administrative enforcement
• IP licensing
• IP valuation
• A proactive, entrepreneurial, business-oriented working attitude and a proven understanding of the commercial value of IP
• Strong analytical and organization skills
• Excellent relationship building, influencing, and negotiation skills
• The confidence and communication skills to operate at all levels both internally and externally

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

This role is an office role.

About Philips

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If you're interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here