Counsel Ip

Empowering people, creating technology.

**Responsibilities**:

- Patent attorney support and advice for the business groups and inventors in all matters relating to intellectual property rights
- Proactive participation in the creation and implementation of the business groups' IP strategies
- Supporting development projects as a patent attorney and helping to protect the results under intellectual property law
- Responsibility for enforcing and defending own property rights and defending against third-party property rights in Germany and abroad
- Supporting the business units in freedom-to-operate analyses in Germany

Qualifications:

- Successfully completed studies in mechanical engineering, process engineering, physics or electrical engineering or comparable qualification
- Admission as European Patent Attorney and/or German Patent Attorney
- Preferably several years of professional experience in the patent department of an industrial company or a patent law firm
- Experience in the field of trademarks required
- Experience in the protection of digital inventions an advantage
- Very good communication skills for the clear presentation of complicated legal issues
- Strong teamwork skills, independent and efficient working style, hands-on mentality, goal orientation, flexibility and initiative
- Business fluent in German and fluent in English

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Freudenberg Technology Innovation SE & Co. KG