Senior IP Counsel - Cellular Connectivity Technologies

As a Senior IP Counsel in the General Licensing team, you’ll have the opportunity to create maximum value from our IP portfolio through licensing and other commercial IP-based activities. You will participate in the conception and execution of appropriate IP strategies and support IP matters in a wide range of collaborations with third parties and litigation.

Your role:
Working in collaboration with global IP&S colleagues to:

• Evaluate invention disclosures with the goal of providing optimal protection and generating maximum long-term value to the company.
• Prepare, file, and prosecute high-quality patent applications meeting international standards. Maintain a substantial and active prosecution docket of patent applications.
• Support infringement and validity analysis, including claim chart mapping to technical standards or other use cases.
• Support analysis of third-party patents in the relevant technology domains.

You're the right fit if:

• You have a Master’s or PhD degree and technical background in electrical engineering or physics with subject matter expertise in cellular connectivity technologies (3GPP) and knowledge of 3GPP-RAN levels.
• Preferably, you have experience with the dynamics of standardization activities.
• You are a qualified European patent attorney who has passed the European Qualifying Examination (EQE).
• You possess at least 5 years of work experience in IP drafting and prosecution, portfolio management, and counseling, defending IP assertions, contributing to IP litigations, and/or IP Licensing.
• You have excellent analytical and intellectual capabilities.
• You demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication in English and presentation skills to operate at all levels both internally and externally.
• You have flexibility and adaptability to work in a multicultural environment.
• You are a positive and open team player with excellent relationship-building, influencing, and negotiating abilities.

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.