Le poste

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").

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