Senior IP Counsel - Cellular Connectivity Technologies

As a Senior IP Counsel - Cellular Connectivity Technologies 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.

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 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.

You're the right fit if

As candidate you are a positive, collegial, cooperative and open-team player, who enjoys rapidly changing environment and feels comfortable working in a global environment 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 cellular connectivity technologies (3GPP) and knowledge of 3GPP-RAN levels.
• Preferably experience with the dynamics of standardization activities.
• 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 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

We are a health technology company.