SEP Specialist

• Conduct in-depth Standard Essential Patent (SEP) analysis across technologies such as Audio-Video Codecs, Wi‑Fi, and 3GPP (including 5G, LTE, LTE-A).
• Prepare and validate claims-to-standards mappings, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and technical rigor.
• Perform high-quality validity and invalidity searches for SEPs using relevant patent and non-patent literature sources.
• Develop and refine search strategies aligned with client objectives, ensuring methodological soundness and clarity.
• Prepare and validate detailed claim charts to support licensing discussions and litigation processes.
• Draft comprehensive search reports summarizing findings and providing clear, objective, and actionable insights.
• Track and analyze standards development activities, including technical specifications, change requests, contributions, and meeting documents.
• Follow ISO 9001 processes to ensure consistent, high-quality, and compliant project outcomes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance internal processes, methodologies, and knowledge sharing.
• Apply experience in novelty/patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate (FTO), and state-of-the-art searches in alignment with ISO 9001 standards (preferred).

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. 

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. 

RWS Values 

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

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