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European Legal Advisor (IP)

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🇩🇪 Frankfurt am Main, HE, Germany
Contract Full Time
Experience Level Entry (0–1 years)
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Nintendo of Europe SE

European Legal Advisor (IP)*

Finance, Legal, HR & Audit | Experienced | Permanent | Full-Time |  

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Nintendo Co., Ltd., headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, has been providing a wide range of entertainment products and experiences since its founding in 1889, beginning with the manufacture and sale of Hanafuda playing cards. Since the 1983 release of the Family Computer (Famicom) system in Japan, and continuing through Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo’s focus has been the development, manufacturing, and sale of its gaming systems and software. 

At Nintendo, we bring together employees with a wide range of characteristics and work together towards a common goal – to put smiles on the faces of people all over the world. 

 Tasks

  • Providing legal advice with a focus on European intellectual property law, with a particular focus on litigation
  • Advising Nintendo of Europe business units, as well as Nintendo Japan Legal and IP Department on IP-related legal matters and IP litigations concerning the European region
  • Supporting legal drafting and review of letters, contracts and other IP law or litigation-related documents for the European region
  • Collaborating with and receiving guidance from the Intellectual Property Manager in the team and the Team Lead IP

 Requirements

  • German law degree; a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in IP law or relevant patent litigation experience would be a plus
  • Ideally first post-qualification work experience 
  • Excellent knowledge of German procedural law, copyright law, and patent laws
  • Excellent written and spoken English and German language skills 
  • Very good communication skills paired with a team oriented mindset and diligent working style

Are you interested? We look forward to receiving your application in English, including your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.


* With this job advertisement, we would like to encourage people of all genders to apply. Therefore, we refrain from explicitly mentioning any gender. Our company is opposed to gender-based discrimination, as well as discrimination based on other legally protected characteristics.


Finance, Legal, HR & Audit Experienced Permanent Full-Time European Legal Advisor (IP) req418
  • Providing legal advice with a focus on European intellectual property law, with a particular focus on litigation
  • Advising Nintendo of Europe business units, as well as Nintendo Japan Legal and IP Department on IP-related legal matters and IP litigations concerning the European region
  • Supporting legal drafting and review of letters, contracts and other IP law or litigation-related documents for the European region
  • Collaborating with and receiving guidance from the Intellectual Property Manager in the team and the Team Lead IP
  • German law degree; a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in IP law or relevant patent litigation experience would be a plus
  • Ideally first post-qualification work experience 
  • Excellent knowledge of German procedural law, copyright law, and patent laws
  • Excellent written and spoken English and German language skills 
  • Very good communication skills paired with a team oriented mindset and diligent working style
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