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Looking for a role where you can work closely with both ‘up and comers’ and industry front runners on identifying patentable inventions and guide their R&D with IP in mind? How about needing the freedom to develop your own methodologies, but with the structure of a supportive team on hand if needed? This role with an incredibly successful and forward-thinking Biotechnology team could be the one for you.

This busy Oxford office of a well-established IP practice is growing their Chemistry group with an additional Associate to help manage and develop their impressive client portfolio. No matter where your strengths and interests lie, there’s a good chance there will be work to suit.

Do you lack the support needed to develop your experience alongside a likeminded and driven team?

Abwechslungsreiche Arbeit, ein flexibles Umfeld und ein fachkundiges, international hoch angesehenes Team sind nur einige der Gründe, die für BomhardIP sprechen.

Work with the senior leadership team on highly complex and valuable trade mark matters. The firm is known for their friendly and progressive environment, offering outstanding opportunities for developing your career. They have strong ties with Europe, with a busy German office opening up the opportunity to work directly with overseas clients and further your knowledge of a variety of technologies through working with cross office teams.

Firms can have unrealistic expectations; imagining that you will bring along every client you have ever worked with; or that you will be the most profitable Partner in your first six weeks.  Sometimes firms like the idea of recruiting a Partner but when it comes to the crunch, they just don’t want to pay for a new Partner.  It’s great in principle, just not in (private) practice.    You’re asking if this is the point in the advert where I say this job is different aren’t you? Yes, it is! But just because the narrative was predictable, it doesn’t mean it’s incorrect.  Here’s how: 

This one’s for the networker and the conversation starter. The one who would prefer to be out and about than behind a desk, and the one who thrives on building and maintaining effective and long-standing client relationships. The firm needs a confident and comfortable nearly/newly qualified patent attorney to continue building on their fantastic work portfolio, and strategise with them to suggest new ways to develop it even further.

This is the job for that rare breed of super social patent attorney, you like going to networking events, conferences and client meetings.  You don’t want to sit in a room filing, day in, and day out, you want to be out in the world telling people how great you are at filing.  Yes, you will be doing some of the usual patent attorney stuff, of course you will but you’ll have a fairly significant input into what some of that stuff is and how you get to do it in the first place.

Work directly with an array of UK and international clients including multinational corporations and household names, world class universities and research institutions, SME’s, and sole inventors. You will handle a broad range of innovative technologies including software, AI and machine learning, telecommunications, optical recording media, avionics and air conditioning technologies.

Work for a small in-house department of a fast-developing company with a role that has a focus in providing IP advice.  As the portfolio grows the dynamic of the position may change to incorporate more drafting.  This position would be a great fit for a candidate who is comfortable providing an active dialogue with primarily non-IP people.  You will be commercially aware and able to see the financial benefits of particular IP decisions.

Join a business working at the cutting edge of synthetic and stem cell biology for a company making what was science fiction into reality.  Be part of a culture that is highly collaborative, open, supportive and creative.

This is a role that would suit someone who doesn’t want to specialise in one area of IP. Maybe you are super interested in litigation (of which there will be a fair amount) but you don’t only want to do litigation?  Perhaps you want to work in hard IP, soft IP and medium strength IP? Where you will be working is a firm regularly recognised as a great place to work and who goes to bat in some very high-profile cases.

How about you join a firm who want you for who you are, not the cash you bring along?  They want someone who is a leader.  Someone who enjoys training and mentoring, someone who can see where the gaps exist in knowledge and support attorneys to grow.  The firm wants someone who will look for commercial opportunities and be able to present the firm robustly and persuasively to new clients.  You may be better at management or better at business development or great at both, there’s flexibility to fit around what interests you most. 

Learn more about litigation, business development, coaching, legal economics, presentation skills and leadership whilst developing your patent attorney skills.

A European full-service IP firm has recently been enjoying substantial growth and as a result is in need of an experienced IP solicitor to continue their expansion and help service their already impressive client list.

This one ticks all the boxes. Interesting and challenging work portfolio? Yup. Varied day-to-day responsibilities? You betcha. Inclusive cross discipline teams? That’s a yes from us. Fantastic salary and achievable career progression? Definitely.

Join the highly decorated and extremely profitable cross-border patent litigation practice of this international IP specialist firm. With an expert team of litigators supported by an experienced core of patent attorneys the firm has a nearly unique offering to the market that has enabled fast growth in recent years.

Perhaps you’ve just passed the EQEs or perhaps that was a year or two ago? You probably feel like you should have more autonomy, or a broader range of clients or more agency over the work you can do. Maybe there are specific technical areas you really want to work within or you just want to have more experience of Oppositions and Appeals.

This patent attorney firm are rapidly growing their biotechnology practice which is already well-established, high profile and successful.

Leading patent and trade mark practice Dehns is offering a fantastic opportunity to explore another side of the IP world, with a regular secondment to a well-known global name. The role holds significant responsibility and the opportunity to direct the future of their patent strategy. You will work closely alongside the inhouse IP team, as well as other secondees and outside counsel, tackling a varied and ever-changing case load.

As a result of ongoing success and significant investment in their internal resources, leading top tier firm Dehns now has the capability to recruit engineering patent attorneys across their offices, in particular London and Oxford. The private practice has a whole host of high-profile clients, a varied and challenging caseload, and offers fantastic training and the opportunity for career progression.

Has your career reached a bit of a stop?  You want to progress but you’re not sure it’s possible where you are?  Maybe you’ve been overlooked? Maybe you’re underappreciated? Or maybe you’re exactly where you want to be in respect to your career but you’re not sure that the firm you’re with is the environment for you anymore.

You really don’t need to go back to the office.  You can work from home all of the time (apart from the occasional meeting).  And this is not a second-class option - your career will progress at the same pace irrespective of where you’re based.  The firm just doesn’t see geography as a priority.

A firm with a fantastic pedigree in biotechnology is in need of an additional fee earner to help manage their growing workload. The team represents SMEs, blue chip companies and academic institutions before the UKIPO and EPO. There’s a well-established oppositions practice with many of the team having extensive experience in EPO oppositions and appeals, as well as handling litigious matters in the UK, Europe, South Africa, USA and Asia.

We’re working with a firm that has responded incredibly well during the fall out of the last few years and can offer a fantastic working environment, including regular social events, a strong commitment to employee wellbeing, generous salary, and remote working for up to 40% of your time.

It’s always a risk moving from a small firm to a larger one, or vice versa. This firm can offer you the best of both worlds; a close-knit team, open door policy, access to a varied work portfolio and opportunity to contribute to BD, marketing, internal policy, all coupled with an impressive client base, fantastic support structure and achievable/transparent career progression.

Not sure where your career is heading? Want to shake up your workload but don’t know who to/feel like you can’t ask? This firm encourages constant conversation between management and fee earners. They listen and try to accommodate everyone’s interests and career aspirations, whether it be something they can offer straight away or work with you to make to plan to achieve it in the future.

Constantly being overlooked for promotion? Frustrated that your ideas aren’t being heard? Maybe you’re stuck in a firm with a ‘one size fits all’ ethos? Then this one could be for you. The firm understands that everyone has different aspirations for how their career will progress and eventually end up. Not everyone wants to work for one large client, or get involved in training and business development, or maybe you do. And all of this is absolutely fine.

In times of uncertainty this firm has been growing from strength to strength and is now in need of an additional team member to join one of their offices across the UK.

Enjoy a great mix of work including immunology, therapeutics, food technology, genetics and plant bio-agritech. The overwhelming majority of clients are direct so you will be working closely with in-house teams and R&D to develop an IP strategy.

A steady increase in work over recent times has resulted in this firm requiring at least one capable patent attorney to join their Digital team. The role can be based in one of the firm’s northern offices, however there are other locations available for the right candidate.

This firm has a fantastic reputation and does things a little differently. They have a multidisciplinary team combining the expertise of patent attorneys, IP litigators and commercial IP solicitors across their UK, European and international offices. You will have the opportunity to learn from the best in their fields, gaining experience and challenging yourself in areas you wouldn’t necessarily have access to (but have an interest in).

It can be a difficult time to move pre qualification. You may feel the focus needs to be on your training and that jumping ship before you have your exams under your belt can be seen as a red flag for firms. This is absolutely not the case.

Do you feel you’re lacking the support needed to progress your career? Perhaps you’ve found your footing but don’t have the freedom to really push your potential? This firm can offer you both. They encourage autonomous working and champion attorneys that use their own initiative, but with the support structure and open-door policy in place to be used if needed.

An opportunity has come about for an experienced associate to join a busy practice on a fixed term basis. You will be focusing mainly on the trade mark portfolio, however you will have the chance to become involved in all areas of the business – both contentious and non-contentious.

This is an interesting role for a qualified IP solicitor to join a specialist practice within a busy and successful corporate department of an international law firm. The team handles a healthy mix of contentious and non-contentious issues, working closely alongside the specialist litigation and employment teams for clients across a range of sectors. The firm benefits from being part of a larger legal network, allowing their professionals and clients access to an abundance of international knowledge.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced IP solicitor looking for a change of pace and join a practice that has recently gone through an exciting shake up.

A busy and commercially focused practice is growing their Life Sciences and Chemistry team in London. This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious attorney wanting to make their own mark and carve the direction of their later stage career. The firm really push their attorneys to embrace the commercial aspects of the role and encourage networking/business development activities from early on.

It can be difficult getting the exposure to the work that you’d like when you’re starting out in your patent career. There might be a few trainees all trying to liaise with the same Partner or work with a particular client/technology. That is far from the case at this firm.

It’s no secret that no matter where you work, what you’ll be doing day to day won’t differ that greatly. Drafting, prosecution, contentious and advisory matters – it’s what a patent attorney does regardless of the firm. What does differ however is the firm culture and the types of technologies/clients you’ll be exposed to.

Ready to take on the next challenge that will help push you up a level in your career?

Qualified, part qualified, Associate, Senior Associate, there’s room for you whatever your level. What the firm really does want though is someone who is interested in working in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Ideally you will have some experience in this area but if not, then it should at least be an area you would like to build your career in.

A firm that supports, listens, develops and is religiously transparent. Enjoy the security of knowing what you have and where you are heading.

Looking for a role where you can fully utilise both your technical knowledge and commercial expertise? Then this firm is the one for you.

Commercial, strategic, diverse, interesting, world leading client base and excellent career prospects.

More client interaction, broader IP experience, more international experience and a highly supportive peer group.

Join a firm with a superlative reputation for training and an enthusiastically supportive culture.  Part qualified attorneys in this practice group enjoy a particular focus on contentious work and EPO oppositions.  Their clients include many internationally leading companies as well as some smaller highly innovative business thrown into the mix.

We are recruiting for a relatively small but growing, innnovative and flexible London firm.  The workload and client mix is likely to be pretty changeable accross engineering and electronics, so a broad base of technical backgrounds will be considered.  You need to know enough to work autonomously so it is expected that you are either qualified or nearly there.

This is the last move before you become a Partner.  Hopefully at least.  You might be considering a move because you are not sure that achieving Partner status is at all possible where you are, or that it is, but you are not sure you want to be a Partner with the colleagues you currently have.