Patent Engineer

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You enjoy creating and innovating. You never stop striving for better. You take responsibility and you get results. You love being part of a team. Above all, you want your work to matter: Welcome to our world At Sonova we create sense by bringing sound to life. Our innovative hearing care solutions help millions of people enjoy life’s unforgettable moments.

We offer exceptional career opportunities through market-leading brands from consumer to medical, products and services that keep pushing hearing care forward, and a culture where you can quickly belong and perform at your best.

If you want the freedom to explore, opportunities to grow, and make positive change on people lives through your work, this is the place for you.

Join Sonova. Create sense.

In our R&D group, we develop hearing solutions and services for hearing impaired people and hearing care professionals in the form of hearing instruments, accessories, web services, mobile applications, and PC software.

In this role, you will work together with our experts and patent attorneys of the Patent and Design Rights team within the Research & Development department located in Stäfa.

• Support inventors and patent attorneys in creativity workshops, the preparation of invention disclosures, prior art searches, patent prosecution and maintenance decisions.
• Oversee and manage Freedom-to-Operate investigations, including patent database (e.g. Anaqua, Espacenet) searches, screening of patent activities, and reviews of patent publications of competitors in the field of hearing systems.
• Provide IP training to inventors, technical patent experts and business partners.
• Provide first level support to internal users of the electronic patent management system.
• Assist in administrative, organizational and accounting tasks of the Patent and Design Rights team.

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• University degree