Autonomous management of different patent portfolios related to different technologies:
- Collaboration, interface and advisory role with engineers-inventors and various business managers as well as with the Managers of the Innovation department.
- Your interlocutors are present both in France and abroad Animation of IP meetings with technical teams (Innovation / Business) to capture inventions, clarify protection opportunities, identify patentable solutions, specify desirable areas of protection.
- Realization of studies prior to patent filings (state of the art, patentability studies) directly and / or subcontracted Drafting patents directly and/or in collaboration with IP firms Management and monitoring of examination procedures before IP offices
- Supervision of the administrative work of patent assistants in relation to managed portfolios Management, revision and valuation of managed patent portfolios
- Advice and opinions on actions with legal implications in terms of patents Realization of freedom-to-operate studies (identification of competitors' patents, analysis of patent validity, participation in the implementation of attack or defense strategies vis-à-vis competitors)
- Participation in the monitoring of competing patents, legal follow-up Active participation in the management of patent litigation and pre-litigation collaboration with the Legal Department (counterfeiting analysis, constitution of legal files of attack or defense, participation in the conduct of litigation with lawyers), advice on litigation and negotiations
- Supervision and interface with IP firms and consulting partners, foreign agents for the processing of filing files, the follow-up of procedures, possible IP disputes and other subcontracted studies Actor in the development and management of the intellectual property strategy within Soitec
- Participation in the drafting of IP contracts (licenses, co-ownerships, assignments, R&D agreements, NDA) in relation with the Legal team
- Realization of IP Due Diligence studies as part of M&A opportunities in support of the StrategicOffice Department Awareness of the company's teams of the strategic issues of IP and the functioning of patents