TRAINEE PATENT ENGINEER (M/F/D)

with focus on IP harvesting and innovation

for the locations Mannheim (for permanent employment)

You are tired of being patronized and wish for a more responsible and creative approach to your work and to play a major role? Do you enjoy bringing as many ideas into the world as possible? Did you finished your studies or worked as an engineer and wondered whether that was it?

Then you could be just right with us.

We attach particular importance to appreciative and open dealings. In doing so, we take into account the interests of all parties involved in order to provide outstanding and professional services for selected clients.

The focus of our activities is the phase prior to a patent application. Above all, we prepare searches, refine invention disclosures and think about circumvention solutions for

existing industrial property rights.

Your tasks:

• Create, complete and edit invention disclosures

• Performing patent searches

• Participation in workshops for inventors, evaluation and prioritisation of results and transfer to one database

• Weekly and monthly reporting

• Formulation of patent claims as a draft for the patent attorney

• Creation simple technical sketches

• Objective and functional description of the invention

• Preparation and review of search strategies for carrying out patent searches

Your profile

• Completed technical or scientific studies

• Very good knowledge of English (ideally at the level of a native speaker)

• Ideally basic experience in intellectual property

• Strong analytical skills

• Very good knowledge in dealing with MS Office products

• Basic knowledge of cloud-based applications and virtual collaboration

• Self-reliant work

• Ability to work in a team

• Readiness to travel (approx. once a month for three days at the customer's premises)

• Professional and open interaction with customers and colleagues (soft skills)

• Willingness to grow

• Ability to take feedback as well as to feedback constructively

Our offer:

We offer you the opportunity to become a patent engineer and the possibility to become a co-inventor. You and your opinion are important to us, you are in direct touch with the decision-makers and get the opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing team which you can and should actively contribute yourself and your creativity.

Within a one to two years trainee programme, we combine formal professional studies and training-on-the-job to deliver you a structured entrance in the world of intellectual property.

Afterwards, you are entitled to claim yourself as a patent engineer or patent professional, which is in Germany a protected job title.

Appreciative interaction means a lot to us and we work with professional coaching tools.

With us, you will receive career advancement including a personal training budget.

Did we catch your interest? Then, please send us your complete application stating your earliest possible starting date.

We only accept electronic applications.

Please apply via e-mail at hiring@evo-ip.com

Best

EVOip