Intellectual Property Counsel

Main Purpose:

• Create globally and efficiently the IP prerequisites for specific User Experience (UX) technologies and products.
• Follow the UX IP strategy to build and manage a strong patent portfolio, especially as new technologies and organizational changes arise.
• Ensure that R&D and products can operate freely without infringing on third-party IP rights.
• Work closely with UX R&D, Strategy, and the IP Practice Group to manage IP risks and explore opportunities.

Responsibilities: ​​​​

• Handle invention disclosures and draft patent applications, including preparing responses to office actions within a specific technical area of the UX portfolio. Support IP attorneys with filing and follow-up of applications.
• Provide IP counsel within a specific technical area of the UX portfolio.
• Defend IP rights in the BA UX field, aligned with the patent strategy for that technical area.
• Manage the IP portfolio by participating in regular patent committee meetings with UX R&D Strategy and IP UX experts.
• Support the IP BA UX head located in Germany at the headquater location in Frankfurt am Main and UX R&D/ Strategy in defining national and international patent filing strategies, including cost-benefit and efficiency analysis, as well as M&A activities, contracts and RFQs.
• Implement processes and support BA UX to ensure technical compliance for IP for BA UX within a specific technical subfield within the general portofolio.
• Develop risk mitigation options (e.g., licensing, invalidation, design-around) and advise BA Management accordingly.
• Analyze third-party patent claims to assess potential risks. Develop and implement strategies to defend against third-party claims.
• Identify IP opportunities within the patent portfolio (e.g., licensing, selling, enforcement), including litigation.
• Assist the IP BA UX head and Legal team with IP-related litigation in the UX area.
• Conduct IP training sessions to share knowledge with the BA UX R&D/Strategy teams.
• Organize and lead invention workshops and support participating inventors.
• Calculate inventor remuneration regularly and handle related requests in the specific technical areas.
• Collect sales and usage data needed for inventor remuneration in the relevant fields.
• Guide inventors and help resolve remuneration-related conflicts, supporting the IP BA UX head in managing disputes.
• Prepare IP landscape analysises for the BA UX.