About Fondazione Chips-IT The Foundation “Italian Center for the Design of Semiconductor Integrated Circuits,” also known as the Chips-IT Foundation, is a nonprofit research and technology organization under the supervision of the Ministries of Industry.
The Foundation is Italy's first RTO (Research and Technology Organization) vertically focused on semiconductor research and stands as a center of excellence in frontier research on semiconductor design, as well as a pivotal center of the Italian semiconductor ecosystem and expertise.

Missions of the Foundation:
Promote the design and development of integrated circuits
Strengthen the system of professional training in the field of microelectronics
Ensure the establishment of a network of universities, research centers and enterprises that fosters innovation and technology transfer in the field

Fondazione Chips-IT is seeking a Senior Legal Specialist – Intellectual Property & Industrial Property to act as the legal backbone of the Fondazione’s research collaborations,



technology transfer activity and intellectual property portfolio. As industrial partnerships and research results grow, this role ensures that every collaboration, licence and spin-off rests on solid, negotiated and enforceable legal ground.
The Senior Legal Specialist drafts and negotiates the agreements through which the Fondazione works with industry, universities, start-ups and consortia — from non-disclosure and material transfer agreements to collaborative research, joint development, licensing and spin-off arrangements — and owns the intellectual property architecture within them: ownership and allocation of background and foreground, access rights, confidentiality, publication and exploitation.
Alongside the transactional mandate, the role supports, within the team, the management of the Fondazione’s IP portfolio from both a legal and strategic perspective : managing the relationship with external patent firms, taking part in the process that l

📌 Senior Legal Specialist (Italia)
🏢 Fondazione Chips-IT
📍 Italia