Intellectual Property Specialist

We offer you the opportunity to implement and expand your innovative ideas in a specialized, future-oriented company. This position enables you to work with our customers, our different departments and external partners as well as suppliers. Five weeks of vacation, a comprehensive onboarding program, diverse and tailor-made training opportunities and a colourful and dedicated team with exciting tasks are just some of the benefits we offer you!

Your responsibilites

• Execute IP-based technology landscape exercises in different industry domains and present the outcome to the relevant project team or business unit/venture unit team
• Perform new idea novelty searches and evaluations and present/discuss the results with the inventor(s) of the idea(s)
• Get acquainted with the Datwyler patent application and prosecution process and gradually take on a coordinating role in such processes, among others by fulfilling the role of contact person to the company's external patent attorney office
• Initiate third-party component/material/method analyses (for patent enforcing purposes), including acquisition of competition samples
• Organize and execute IP checks of intended publications
• Support the engineering workforce and the legal counselor in IP-related contract negotiations (development agreements, license agreements, tech-transfer agreements, confidential disclosure agreements, etc.)

Our requirements

• Master's degree in engineering (mechanical, chemical, or electrical) or science (physics or chemistry) with 3 to 10 years experience in an industrial intellectual property environment
• Patent search capabilities to create technology landscapes and perform novelty (patentability) evaluations
• Ability to interpret results from chemical/physical analyses and relate them to material properties, and/or disassemble products to understand their design and functionality (linked to educational background)
• Experience in or aptitude for supporting contract negotiations is a plus (good negotiation skills)
• Enthusiasm for creating awareness about the importance of intellectual property within the organization (training and communication skills)
• Passion for technology and innovation
• Driven, analytical, and communicative personality
• Strong collaborative skills, with the ability to achieve results through both formal and informal channels
• Fluency in English (written and oral at C2 level); proficiency in German and/or Dutch is an advantage

While patent attorney degrees are accepted, this position is not intended to serve as a patent attorney. Patent drafting and prosecution will continue to be managed externally through our collaboration with outside patent law firms.

Ready to start? Petra Gamma (HR Business Partner) and the recruiting team are looking forward to get to know you and are available for further questions by phone (+41 41 875 18 04).