Job Description
We are looking for an Associate Director (f/m/d) to start immediately for our client, a biotechnology company based in the Munich area.
For this position, the employee in question will work directly for our client. The support, placement and all of our additional services are free of charge for you as the applicant.
You have the opportunity to work in the position (partially) from your home office.
Robert Half has been successfully providing individual personnel services at over 300 locations worldwide for more than 50 years. Experts at Robert Half are passionate about placing you and have specific expertise in the areas of finance and accounting, IT, legal and in the commercial sector. Human interaction is our top priority. Professionalism, honesty, integrity and diversity are the basis of how we think and act.
We value diversity and welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic or social background, religion, disability, age and sexual orientation.
- Harvesting inventions and securing patent protection world-wide
- Managing the firm's compliance with national employee invention laws
- Drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications, maintaining and defending the companies own patent assets
- Acting as active member of the firm`s development teams, directing and advising proactively on patent/ freedom to operate and related IP matters
- Providing regular IP -landscape overviews for development projects and recommending consecutive actions to development teams and at executive level
- Preparing and leading clearing-away activities, e.g. EP oppositions, UPC and national revocation actions with the aim to secure freedom to operate for the firm`s development candidates
- Support in-house activities around development candidate selection, M&A and licenses activities, as well as in-house innovation management
- Lead IP matters in the context of the firm`s collaborative research and development activities
- Supporting of and collaborating with in-house business IP colleagues in all matters around the enforcement of the firm's own IP rights and for IP activities to prepare for launch of own products
- Degree in science preferably in chemistry, biotechnology or biochemistry
- Qualification as European and/or national patent attorney
- Several years of working experience as in-house patent attorney, preferably within the pharmaceutical industry and / or patent attorney in a law firm, preferably advising clients in the pharmaceutical industry, most preferably with experience in the biosimilar field
- Experienced in conducting FTO analysis, harvesting inventions, filing / prosecuting patents before the European Patent Office and USPTO and advising development teams on IP strategies
- Fluent in English, German is a plus
- Excellent communication skills, team player and hands on mentality
- German work permit is mandatory
- Flexible working time
- Hybrid work
- 30 days paid vacation
- Pension scheme
- Group accident insurance
- Continuing education offers
- Team spirit, great working atmosphere and much more