Ip Paralegal

**Position Snapshot**

Location: Vevey, Switzerland
Company: Société des produits Nestlé, S.A.
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%
Type of contract: Permanent contract

**What we offer at Nestlé**

Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces
Dynamic international working environment
Attractive additional benefits

**Position Summary**

As an **IP Paralegal**, you will assist Senior Legal Counsel(s) IP responsible for the trademark portfolio(s) and drive IP projects independently.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.

**A Day in the Life of an IP Paralegal**
- Conduct trademark availability searches (online screen searches and full availability searches) and analyse the results and make a recommendation to the responsible Counsel(s)
- Handle trademark and industrial design registration process from filing to grant for specific Business Unit(s), setting up of protection strategy following the business roll-out plans
- Deal with objections issued by IP Authorities in the world, defensive oppositions by third parties, negotiation of agreements, co-existence terms, undertakings, etc.
- Watch and analyse publication of competitive trademarks and file respective oppositions if necessary. Negotiate undertakings, co-existence agreements, etc. as well as draft moderately complex legal issues and reports
- Update internal database and create new files/records as needed, docket and monitor deadlines
- Undertake or assist with projects involving legal research and information (trademark laws, jurisprudence, best
- practices, taskforce)
- Assist the IP Counsel(s) in litigation activities

**What will make you successful**
- At least 7 years’ experience in trademark field within an international environment or alternatively a law firm
- Familiar with online databases and with web-based IP Management System, ideally Memotech, or computer literate to allow fast onboarding
- Excellent organizational skills, including the ability to successfully handle competing priorities
- Flexible, proactive, team player, able to take initiatives
- Extremely accurate and high attention to detail
- Ability to work autonomously
- Excellent command of written and spoken English a must. Good command of spoken French is desirable

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.