Trainee Patent Attorney

We have been successful in recruiting our first trainee to start with us in Sweden in September 2025 and now seek a second trainee colleague to train in Sweden. It's a great time to join the business, as we continue to evolve our European business in the Nordics region.

This role works alongside a pan-European team of high-tech patent attorneys. You will work on digital subject matter across the technology spectrum, with particular emphasis on software, artificial intelligence, and computing. There will also be opportunities to get involved in telecoms and medical technologies.

EIP Digital encompasses a broad technology spectrum including computer hardware, software, machine learning/AI, electronics, wireless and telecommunications, applied physics, and optics. Strength in these fields has been at the core of EIP and our continued success since we were founded in 2000.

Renowned for its experience in patent drafting and strategic patent prosecution, and a go-to practice for litigation in high-tech patent cases, EIP's Digital team has been engaged in many of the highest profile patent litigation cases in the UK and Germany, and oppositions at the EPO, in recent years.

EIP Digital team members are appointed to many high-value matters which require extraordinary levels of expertise, including licensing, technology standards, pre-litigation analysis, and litigation itself, with high rates of success. Many of these members operate at the intersection of various cutting areas such as electronics and health-tech, AI and drug discovery.

Successful candidates will have a background in mathematics, physics, or computer science. Although qualification to PhD level is preferred, we will consider any candidate with a strong first or further degree who demonstrates the required skill and knowledge to handle these technologies.

You will be comfortable working in a modern, fast-paced environment where you are given a level of autonomy to do your work.

Successful candidates will also be able to demonstrate the following:

• An appropriate professional attitude (personable, well prepared, flexible, and enthusiastic)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely, and the ability to structure a precise and coherent argument
• Ability to deal with a variety of people at different levels
• Ability to balance knowledge of intellectual property law against commercial requirements
• Ability to work under pressure, which may be the result of competing and inflexible deadlines when working for more than one client at the same time
• Excellent research and presentation skills
• Meticulous attention to detail, and an analytical mind
• Initiative and the ability to act independently

Other information

• Full academic and professional support ensures EIP is training the Intellectual Property stars of tomorrow.
• With our state-of-the-art paperless systems, we offer hybrid working, three days in the office and two from home.
• The firm has a friendly, progressive, and mutually supportive working environment along with a smart casual dress policy and stylish modern offices.

We offer a competitive salary and several benefits:

• Highly competitive bonus scheme, paid twice per year
• Qualifying examinations sponsorship and study leave
• Comprehensive pension, insurance, and private healthcare package
• 30 days' annual leave in addition to public holidays
• Opportunities for travel to work with our global colleagues and international client base.

EIP is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religious practice, or any other perceived differences.

Please mention IP Careers when applying to EIP.