Intellectual Property Manager
- 12 month full time position, experienced IP Manager to be part of a dynamic industry-led collaborations to bring research outputs into market.
Summary about this job
Intellectual Property Law
Company: Alertness CRC Ltd
Location: Melbourne
Work type: Full Time
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Phone: +61-2-8357-1314
Fax: +61-2-8753-9439
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Detail information about job Intellectual Property Manager. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Working with universities and industry partners
- Engaging career move
- Join a dynamic team
About the business
Human performance can be significantly degraded by impaired alertness which is endemic in modern society due to the combined effect of inadequate sleep and sleep disorders. The CRC for Alertness, Safety and Productivity is a research and development consortium dedicated to developing new approaches to alertness management for individuals and across organisations, resulting in higher productivity and enhanced safety.
About the role
Alertness CRC is seeking an experienced Intellectual Property Manager, who will work in collaboration with the key personnel from various academic and industry partners to ensure optimal capture, assessment and protection of Alertness CRC Intellectual Property (IP).
As the successful candidate you will assess IP across a range of technologies for patentability and commercial potential, provide expert IP advice to the management of Alertness CRC and researchers and work with external patent attorneys, managing patent filing and prosecution.
Reporting directly to the CEO of Alertness CRC Ltd, this role will focus on the development and successful implementation of an IP strategy, as well as to assisting the CEO to successfully negotiating pathways to market.
Key responsibilities
- Provide expert advice on identification, management and protection of Centre and Project IP to the Management of Alertness CRC.
- Develop appropriate procedures for invention registration, protection and ongoing management including the maintenance of the IP database.
- Maintenance of Alertness CRC IP Register and manage reporting IP reporting obligations to key stakeholders.
- Manage and maintain a register of participants Background IP and any third party IP deployed in CRC projects.
- Support the CEO in managing the Alertness CRC's relationship and terms of engagement with external service providers in relation to IP matters.
- Other duties related to the capture and management of key outputs from Alertness CRC activities.
Benefits and perks
Salary packaging
Australian taxation laws provide generous tax concessions for Health Promotion Charity organisations like Alertness CRC. One such concession is an exemption for Fringe benefits tax (FBT).
This means Alertness CRC is able to pass on to their employees a proportion of their wages as a reimbursement of personal expenses and no income tax is payable on this money, in effect a proportion of your salary each pay is tax free. (Salary packaging)
A work life balance
At Alertness CRC we acknowledge the need to balance your work and personal life. To support this we have developed and value a work place culture that encourages self-care and a healthy and sustainable staff team.
Skills and experience
The appointee will have:
1. Education/Qualifications
- a degree in a technical discipline such as engineering or physical science and a postgraduate qualification or progress toward a postgraduate qualification as a patent attorney, or
- an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
2. Knowledge and Skills
- Demonstrable experience in the management of an IP portfolio.
- An advanced understanding and knowledge of current domestic and international IP law.
- Demonstrated ability to provide expert advice on appropriate management strategies, together with the capacity to apply this knowledge to individual situations.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to maintain effective working relationships and networks with a wide range of people and groups.
- High level conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills together with excellent written and oral communication skills.
- High level planning and organisational skills, including the ability to develop and maintain strategic and operational planning documents.
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines with minimal supervision.
This role is a 12 months full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated. If this sounds like a position that suits your current career focus, we look forward to hearing from you.