The European Patent Office – the patent granting authority in Europe – is a self-financing intergovernmental organisation with over 6000 staff at four different locations. It currently has 31 member states and operates the fastest-growing regional patent system worldwide.

Working for the EPO means supporting innovation, competitiveness and economic growth for the benefit of European citizens.
The European Patent Offi ce is currently recruiting engineers and scientists to work as patent examiners (in particular in Audio Video Media) at its offices in Munich, Berlin (DE) and The Hague (NL)

Your profile:
• national of an EPO member state
• full university degree
• good working knowledge of at least two of the EPO offi cial languages (English, French and German) and willingness to learn the third before starting work as an examiner.

Our offer: • long-term employment in an international environment at the forefront of technology
• intensive initial training in all aspects of patent examination, follow-up courses
• attractive salary, social security package and working conditions generally.

Your job will be to examine patent applications in the three official languages and take decisions on the granting of patents valid in up to 36 European countries.

For more details (including the technical fields in which we have vacancies) and to apply online, please visit our web site:
www.european-patent-offi ce.org/epo/patexam.htm