Senior IP Counsel

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

You will become part of an international community of IP professionals with wide-ranging technical backgrounds and IP experience. The IP&S team will offer excellent opportunities for your further development as an IP Counsel and professional networking. You’ll be based at The High-Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

You will be responsible for:

• 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 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.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

As a candidate, you are a positive, collegial, cooperative and open team player, who enjoys a rapidly changing environment and feels comfortable working in a global setting on projects involving professionals from around the world.

• A Master’s or PhD degree and technical background in electrical engineering or physics with subject matter expertise in wireless connectivity and/or IoT technologies (such as WiFi, Matter, etc.).
• A qualified European patent attorney who has passed the European Qualifying Examination (EQE).
• 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.
• Excellent analytical and intellectual capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English and presentation skills to operate at all levels both internally and externally.
• Flexibility and adaptability to work in a multicultural environment.
• A positive and open team player with excellent relationship building, influencing, and negotiating abilities.

How we work at Philips

Our newly adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles. This is an office role.

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