Intellectual Property Engineer

ABOUT US

Rakuten Symphony brings together all of Rakuten's international telco products, services, and solutions to provide a future-proven, cost-effective cloud connectivity platform for mobile network operators, enterprises, and government bodies around the world.

Through network virtualization and edge computing, Rakuten Symphony has increased its services’ competitiveness with the ability to scale efficiently while minimizing the cost of building and maintaining large-scale infrastructure. We are indeed proving ourselves to be the cloud-native network for the future.

Job Description:

Rakuten Symphony India has an exciting and excellent job opening for an Intellectual Property Engineer/ Intellectual Property Attorney specializing in the telecommunication/standardization field. The IP Engineer would be located in Bengaluru.

As a member of Rakuten Symphony India (a key entity for the Rakuten Symphony Brand), the Intellectual Property Engineer/Attorney would work closely with R&D leaders, IP team members, and engineers in India, Singapore, Japan, and USA, along with other cross-functional global Symphony teams to proactively protect our telecommunication/cloud/software and standards related inventions, oversee the patent preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance process, and provide required IP support services.

Job Responsibilities:

• Independently and proactively collaborating with engineering teams to extract inventions, patentable matters and ensure comprehensive patent protection.
• Understanding technical and legal aspects of the inventions and finding quality patentable subject matter for patent filing.
• Working as key member for all IP activities, particularly, patent activities (patent preparation, patent filings, review of drafts and documents, patentability analysis, claim strategy, prosecution, claim charts, portfolio management, freedom to operate analysis).
• Managing standard essential patent (SEP) portfolio and devising appropriate strategies, in association with the standards delegates, to ensure efficient handling of patent applications and their prosecution.
• Coordinating with outside counsels and other stakeholders for patent filing and prosecution related matters.
• Supporting patent licensing projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives while mitigating 3rd party risks and maximizing the value of the company’s intellectual property portfolio.
• Brainstorming with product leads and engineering teams on improving patent filing activities and targeting key technology areas.
• Proactively guiding the R&D teams and product teams on intellectual property processes, working on increasing IP awareness and encouraging invention submission activities within different groups.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)

• Qualified Indian Patent Agent with 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in building intellectual property portfolio/ patent development (preferably in an in-house team or law firm).
• A bachelor’s or equivalent degree in electrical/electronic engineering, computer/IT/software engineering, or telecommunications engineering.
• Experience in cloud, software, telecommunications and networking technology areas. Exposure to 5G domain and SEP (O-RAN Alliance and/or 3GPP) is preferred.
• Must have a knack of mining patentable inventions from pool of data.
• Experience in patent drafting and prosecution across multiple jurisdictions. Proficiency in US and IN patent laws is preferred.
• Ability to analyze patent portfolios/claim charts and identify potential licensing opportunities or infringement risks.
• Capable of working independently and as a part of a team and efficiently handling multiple priorities.
• Possess strong professional judgement and a sense of ownership.
• Excellent written and oral communication, and networking skills to influence and manage multiple stakeholders.
• A degree in law would be a plus.

Industry

Telecommunications

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Functions

Legal