Within the Flat Glass R&D Central Team, the IP department is looking for an Industrial Property (IP) Business (BU) Manager to support the Sekurit activities in defining, implementing and enforcing a dedicated IP strategy, permanently aligned with the Business’ strategy and allowing to collect revenues for the Sekurit R&D Pool CCA.

As IP BU Manager, you're missions will be to :

Manage the Business’ patents portfolios (several hundreds of patent families and related cases) in line with the Business’ strategy, supervise the regular re-assessments of their value and continuously look for the valuation of your portfolio. Manage and follow the cost evolution of the patent portfolio, optimize and control the costs. Make the Business aware of its patents portfolio and help them to monitor the competitors and/or customers’ IP practices Establish the Freedom to Operate studies assessing the IP risks prior to commercialize a new product or process, an extension to a new country or other cases. Coordinate defense or circumvent action to by-pass third party IP rights. Coordinate enforcement action in case of alleged infringements with the relevant patent and legal attorneys and the Licensing manager. Participate to the negotiations of the licensing-out agreement conditions and manage the needed confidentiality, competition law and anti-trust compliance, Implement the licensing-out agreements related to his/her portfolio (internal and external) and help the Business for the eventual licensing-in agreements. Negotiate and implement (IP part) the technical co-development agreements together with the demanding party and the Business’ technical and legal representatives. Supervise the patent watches handled by the R&D engineers in charge of the R&D studies related to the patent portfolio. Provide IP awareness sessions to the Business’ functions and employees, the R&D centers, … Participate in the improvement of the Glazing Technologies IP team’s processes (“transversal subjects”).