Natera 
is seeking Senior Intellectual Property Counsel to protect its significant and ongoing investment in research and development, to support its growth via technology and commercial transactions, and to mitigate intellectual property risks associated with a competitive commercial environment.
Responsibilities
- Drive operating mechanisms to provide strategic IP counseling at all levels of the business
- Build and manage a patent estate precisely tuned to business objectives
- Sense and protect innovation
- Draft and prosecute patents worldwide
- Perform due diligence to support commercial transactions
- Draft and negotiate IP aspects of technology and commercial transactions
- Ensure freedom to operate for new products
- Sense and mitigate emerging IP risks
- Defend and enforce IP claims
- Manage internal and external legal resources
Qualifications
- Advanced molecular biology, genetics or biochemistry degree (PhD preferred)
- Juris Doctor degree
- Admission to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office and relevant state bar
- 7+ years of intellectual property legal experience
- Significant in-house experience delivering winning strategies for (i) worldwide patent procurement, (ii) contested administrative, judicial and alternative dispute resolution proceedings, (iii) IP licensing and M&A, and (iv) product clearance and risk management
- Experience drafting and prosecuting patents in the US and abroad
- Experience drafting and negotiating IP and commercial technology agreements
- Experience managing patent litigation
- Experience in a publicly traded company preferred
What we offer
Competitive Benefits. Healthy catered lunches, Premium snacks and beverages, Onsite gym with cardio and weight-training equipment, Dog-friendly office, Game room with satellite TV, Onsite dry cleaning and alteration service with pick-up and delivery, Employee-organized sport leagues, Happy hours and BBQs.
Contact
To apply, please email Sunshinne Thompson at: sthompson@natera.com.
Additional Info
Employer Type: Other
Job Location: San Carlos, California