Senior Patent Counsel/Manager, Transactions

You will be part of our Patent Transactions team in Nokia Technologies. Our team is mostly focused on securing the best possible patent acquisitions (and related) at the earliest possible dates that are consistent with Nokia Technologies strategy. You will be exposed to a broad range of technologies, including relating to software and hardware. You will interface with among others, Patenting personnel, licensing, outside technical consultants, and other companies. In this role, you will play a critical part in evaluating and helping secure patent rights for Nokia Technologies. In addition to strong and proven patent analysis skills and project management skills, we are seeking someone with a strong desire and the needed skills to help enhance already existing tools and processes for patent analysis.

• Supporting team efforts in securing in a timely manner the best possible patent acquisition and related opportunities that are consistent with Tech’s priorities.

• Working with relevant others as needed, efficiently performing detailed analysis of various top potential candidate patents and related documents to determine value (including relating to both infringement and validity).

• Managing outside technical consultants to achieve top quality and top efficiency in patent analysis-related efforts.

• Consistently finding and helping implement new and better ways to meet team objectives.

• Relating to software and/or hardware and/or wireless communications, at least 7 years of detailed patent analysis experience including significant claim charting experience, significant infringement analysis-related experience, and significant invalidity analysis-related experience and a proven record of success in all the foregoing.

• Relating to software and/or hardware and/or wireless communications and in the context of detailed patent analysis (for infringement and validity), significant patent litigation-related experience and significant patent licensing-related experience and a proven record of success in all the foregoing.

It would be nice if you also had:

• Significant patent acquisition-related and/or patent sales-related experience

• A formal qualification of European Patent Attorney or similar

• Experience and education as an electrical engineer

• Significant experience with and knowledge of the latest tools for and approaches to detailed patent analysis