Patent Specialist (m/f/d)
- Basler AG - Ahrensburg, An der Strusbek 60-62
- Mix Office & Remote Working
- Junior, Career start
- Work experience
- Law
- Research, development, teaching
- Part time
- Unlimited
Starting immediately, part time with a minimum 20 hour per week
Basler is an international leader and experienced expert in computer vision. We offer a broad portfolio of vision hardware and software as well as customer-specific products and solutions.
We employ about 850 people at our headquarters in Ahrensburg, Germany, as well as other sales and development locations throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. Key factors in our more than 35-year success story include the courage to take risks, the willingness to see constant change as normal and the passion to pursue customer-oriented innovations.
Your responsibilities
- Managing the international patent portfolio from strategic and economic perspectives, as well as contributing to the implementation and monitoring of the international intellectual property strategy
- Providing patent law support for international development projects, identifying product and development ideas eligible for protection, and assisting with their filing as industrial property rights
- Conducting prior art searches, as well as organizing, executing, and optimizing intellectual property monitoring, including critical competitor filings
- Conducting freedom-to-operate analyses, evaluating potential infringements of third-party intellectual property rights by Basler, and independently granting patent clearance
- Enforcing and defending the company’s own intellectual property rights and challenging those of third parties; investigating potential infringements of Basler’s intellectual property rights by competitors and detailed infringement allegations, as well as managing pre-litigation disputes and litigation proceedings
- Independently handling official notices, oppositions, objections, and appeals, in collaboration with external patent attorneys as necessary
- Managing external patent attorneys and specialist attorneys, including quality and cost control
- Conducting licensing negotiations with third parties
- Negotiating agreements regarding compensation for employee inventions and determining the compensation
Your qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in a technical or scientific field, such as computer science, or a comparable qualification
- Several years of relevant professional experience in intellectual property law and IP management
- Strong knowledge of patent, utility model, and employee invention law;
- Knowledge of competition law and copyright law is a plus
- Experience working with patent databases and proficiency in MS Office
- Strong technical and analytical skills; knowledge of computer vision is a plus
- Negotiation skills as well as entrepreneurial thinking and action
- Fluency in spoken and written German and English
What we offer
- We have a clear vision of the direction we want to take, but it is up to the individual teams to decide how they get there.
- We welcome your fresh outside perspective and foster an open culture in which everyone is encouraged to contribute their ideas.
- "Work-life balance" is not just an empty phrase at Basler: we support our employees in their roles as family carers and have been recognized for our commitment through the "berufundfamilie" audit.
- Respect for our staff members' personal interests and reconciling these with their professional lives is an important part of our corporate culture.
- Hybrid workplace - mix of working in the office and mobile/remote working.
- First-class IT equipment including notebook and modern working environment.
- Attractive remuneration with internal wage transparency, flextime account for overtime reduction, 30 days of paid vacation, and open communication: on first-name terms from trainee to board member.
Your application
Would you like to know more about us or do you have any questions? Write to Thomas at thomas.zuch@baslerweb.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
- Thomas Zuch
- HR Consultant Recruitment
