Job Title
Intellectual Property Counsel - Enterprise Informatics & Personal Health
Job Description
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Job title:
IP Counsel
Business: Enterprise Informatics
Location: Bangalore (India)
IP&S Description:
The Philips Intellectual Property & Standards Department (IP&S) is an integral part of Philips. It is a significant contributor to the success of Philips on multiple levels. It helps develop and manage all types of intellectual property for Philips on a worldwide basis. We are dedicated to creating strong IP portfolios in and around our business propositions and to providing high quality, relevant IP services on a timely basis. We are also dedicated to extracting value from our IP portfolios through licensing and other commercial IP-based programs and transactions with third parties. We are also actively engaged in developing and managing Standardization models that best serve Philips’ interest and mission as a global health technology company.
Your challenge:
Do you have an interest in the intellectual property space, and would you like to advance your career in one of the world’s largest and best-known corporate IP organizations? Then joining IP&S as an IP Counsel is a unique opportunity to accelerate your career and make a positive difference in the world of health care.
Your responsibilities:
As an IP Counsel in IP&S, you will be a strategic advisor in IP matters to Philips Enterprise Informatics and Personal Health businesses and research organizations. You will help shape and contribute to the creation and building our IP portfolio by focusing on innovations principally in the Enterprise Informatics and Personal Health fields from Philips India campuses, including information technology (AI, software, cloud services, databases, mobile apps, and control solutions). You will participate in invention harvesting as well as in the conception and execution of the appropriate IP strategy(ies) on an end-to-end basis from protecting the IP assets to assisting in capturing value from that portfolio where possible. You will draft patent applications on exciting new innovations and prosecute a patent portfolio before the Indian Patent Office. You will also manage third-party IP risks, and when needed, seek to get access to third party IP at the lowest cost possible for Philips’ products and services. You will also be serving the interests of Philips Enterprise Informatics and Personal Health businesses on IP matters in transactions with third parties.
The team:
You will work with a multi-disciplinary team of IP counsels and IP analysts serving the Enterprise Informatics and Personal Health businesses worldwide. You will become part of an international community of IP professionals with wide-ranging technical backgrounds and IP experience, gained both inside and outside Philips. You will have an internal coach for training-on-the-job (next to formal training). Comprising professionals of many different nationalities who collaborate with Philips businesses across the globe, the Philips IP&S team offers you excellent opportunities for learning and professional networking in order to increase your knowledge of intellectual property matters and to continue your professional development. To facilitate career development and create a work environment that continually challenges intellectually and professionally, our IP professionals can rotate between the different IP teams to leverage their respective accumulated experiences in other businesses or to gain experience in new areas.
Our offer:
The IP Counsel position provides a unique opportunity to experience the use of Intellectual Property and its impact on the Philips Group. Philips offers you a challenging position with excellent career development possibilities. Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:
• A competitive salary and benefits package
• A variable bonus based on both personal performance and overall company results
• Extensive set of tools to drive continuous learning throughout your career
• Healthy work-life balance
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You're the right fit if:
Ideal Profile:
We are looking for a candidate with:
- A minimum of 3 years of working experience either in patents or in R&D in combination with being a qualified Indian Patent Agent
- An MSc or PhD degree in physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer sciences or similar
- Confidence, critical thinking and experience at multitasking
- Strong professional drive
- Excellent analytical and intellectual capabilities
- Excellent relationship building, influencing and negotiating abilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills to operate at all levels both internally and externally
- Fluent in English (both orally and in writing)
- Flexibility and adaptability to work in a multicultural environment
- A positive mindset and a team player
- Experience with or exposure solutions and ecosystems in the health care space would be a plus but not required
About Philips
Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 2.5 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve.
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.
