Patent Prosecution Patent Agent – Law Firm – Washington, D.C.

Venable LLP's Venable LLPPatent Prosecution Group in its DC office is looking to hire a chemist or chemical engineer who is also a registered patent agent. Must be admitted to the patent bar and have 2-5 years of experience handling multi-national large patent portfolios. Engineering, industrial, research, and/or USPTO experience preferred. Advanced degree preferred. Excellent academic credentials and great communication skills required.

An American Lawyer top 100 law firm, Venable LLP has attorneys practicing in all areas of corporate and business law, complex litigation, intellectual property and government affairs. Venable serves corporate, institutional, governmental, nonprofit and individual clients throughout the U.S. and around the world from its headquarters in Washington, DC and offices in California, Maryland, New York and Virginia. EOE M/F/D/V

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Apply by emailing Kera Wise at: kmwise@venable.com.

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Employer Type: Law Firm
Job Location: Washington, D.C.

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    There’s a case, couldn’t find it now, where Company A got a non-infringement opinion from Firm A. Then it sold assets, including the non-infringing equipment, to Company B. Then Firm A was hired by the patentee to sue Company B…

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    Thanks – you hit on several of the drivers that I was considering: the imputed conflicts when a lawyer changes firms and brings his book of business to a different firm and their history, the clients’ dynamics in that they are obtaining new IP (either or both organically and externally), and the fact that clients’ products change and may become disassociated with their IP.

    I am not as concerned with opinion work, as that can be said to be static and only binding for the conditions that exist at a moment in time, although care must be taken in the first instance to recognize the sum totality that is reflected for that moment.

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    I don’t emphasize that separately in this talk, but you are right. Claims and business models change, and companies buy companies, lawyers transfer firms, and…

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    Do you touch on the dynamic nature of conflict checking?

    I have seen a “take a look at it once – it’s clear – and forget about it” approach really burn some people.

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