Intellectual Property Counsel/Agent, Digital Pathology — Roche
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring.
Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally.
This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.
- At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring.
- Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally.
Application process
- In this hands-on role, you will directly draft and prosecute patent applications while managing outside counsel and shaping global patent strategy, portfolio development, and risk mitigation for Roche's next-generation Digital Pathology ecosystems. The Opportunity:
- In this role, you will serve as a strategic legal and technical advisor to R&D, data science, software engineering, and business development teams, directly capturing and protecting inventions in computational diagnostics.
- First-Principle Application Drafting: Directly draft high-quality US and international patent applications covering core computer vision models, agentic AI workflows, spatial biology pipelines, and clinical-grade bioinformatics algorithms.
- Hands-on Patent Prosecution: Directly prepare and file responses to Office Actions, conduct examiner interviews, and steer prosecution strategies before the USPTO and foreign patent offices to secure broad, enforceable claims for digital health software architectures.
- Outside Counsel Management: Select, direct, and manage external legal counsel for overflow drafting, global prosecution, and specialized portfolio projects to ensure technical precision, cost efficiency, and alignment with Roche's overarching IP strategy.
- Strategic Portfolio Management: Formulate and execute robust global IP strategies covering deep learning neural networks, proprietary diagnostic algorithms, and multi-modal diagnostic fusion engines.
- Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) & Risk Assessment: Conduct complex FTO analyses, landscape reviews, validity assessments, and patentability studies specifically tailored to open-source software integration and cloud-native digital health infrastructures.
- IP Harvesting & R&D Integration: Partner directly with software engineers, machine learning researchers, and pathologists to systematically harvest inventions arising from foundation models, image segmentation, and quantitative biomarker analysis. Who You Are:
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- In this hands-on role, you will directly draft and prosecute patent applications while managing outside counsel and shaping global patent strategy, portfolio development, and risk mitigation for Roche's next-generation Digital Pathology ecosystems.
- IP Harvesting & R&D Integration: Partner directly with software engineers, machine learning researchers, and pathologists to systematically harvest inventions arising from foundation models, image segmentation, and quantitative biomarker analysis.
- Technical & Prosecution Mastery: Demonstrated track record of personally drafting and successfully prosecuting complex software and AI patent claims, alongside familiarity with deep learning frameworks, spatial transcriptomics/proteomics data processing, and automated image analysis tools.
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Questions about this listing
What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 62'000 - 94'000 gross per year for this position in Basel. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Roche offer?
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