Patent Attorney

**About the role**:
**Location**:Sweden - Stenungsund, Austria - Linz, Finland - Porvoo

**Hours**:Full-Time

**Type of Contract**:Permanent

**We provide solutions for a better tomorrow and we are looking for you who likes to do the same. As a member of our IPR Team, you will provide intellectual property (IP) counselling and support to an organization with a high focus on innovation.**

Our IPR team, with almost 20 experts and administrative support, is located in our Innovation Centres in Linz (Austria), Stenungsund (Sweden) and Porvoo (Finland).

We are now looking for you who can combine your professional attorney skills with high commercial awareness to drive, in close collaboration with R&D teams, product managers and other parts of the organization, the use of IPR as a business tool in the best interest of Borealis. Depending on your technical background and experience, you will be assigned a patent portfolio and you will counsel our business units to ensure solid protection as well as freedom-to-operate for new technology.

In this role, you will
- perform patentability assessments.
- represent Borealis in patent examination, opposition and appeal proceedings, either directly or via external service providers.
- provide freedom-to-operate (FTO) investigations, validity assessments and opinions as well as risk mitigation in relation thereto.

**About you**:
We foster a positive and proactive attitude and encourage ownership of tasks, and are looking for you who has the ability to communicate complex IP matters in a clear manner, have good collaborations skills and the ability to drive team-dependent tasks forward.

Qualifications:

- Scientific technical degree (M.Sc. / Ph.D.), preferably in polymer chemistry, organic chemistry and/or chemical engineering.
- Qualified European or US Patent Attorney.
- 5+ years of professional experience as a patent attorney at in-house patent department and/or in private practice.
- English at professional level.

**About Borealis and our offer**:
**We go beyond boundaries. Together.