The Attorney, Intellectual Property and Licensing will work with our Associate General Counsel of IP & Licensing and be responsible for drafting and managing global patent portfolios directed to Salix's products. In addition to working on all aspects of patent prosecution, including drafting patent applications and responding to Office Actions, the position will work closely with R&D colleagues to monitor the progress of Salix's in-house research and development, evaluate freedom to operate with respect to third party patent rights, evaluate potential in-licensing or acquisition opportunities and advise research groups on a variety of IP issues, including assessment of third party patent rights.
This position provides the opportunity to work on a wide range of IP issues in a growth-oriented pharmaceutical company. Responsibilities include drafting new patent applications and responses to US and foreign office actions, collaborating with outside US and foreign patent counsel handling patent prosecution matters including appeals, and assisting with IP due diligence for licensing agreements and patentability and freedom to operate studies.
The position requires a JD degree from accredited law school, admission to at least one state bar, and admission to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A BA/BS in chemistry, molecular biology or related degree is also required; advanced degree preferred.
Salix is also willing to consider a Patent Agent for this position. In that circumstance, the JD is not required, but the candidate must be admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A BA/BS in chemistry, molecular biology or related degree is also required; advanced degree preferred.
Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years of biological/chemical/ pharmaceutical patent prosecution experience, AND at least 2 years of experience working in-house in the patent department of a pharmaceutical company. Candidates must also demonstrate a full understanding of U.S. patent law, and knowledge of European patent law, including patentability, prosecution, validity, infringement and litigation. Strong background in drafting/filing of patents as well as prosecution experience is also must.
The successful candidate will also be detail-oriented, independently motivated, and have the ability to interact with clients and co-workers in a professional, approachable, and positive manner.
SoCal IP Law Group LLP is seeking a partner. Get out of the rat race and enjoy a saner pace of life. The ideal candidate is a later-career partner in a mid-sized or larger law firm, has a prosecution or mixed IP practice, and will get his or her own coffee. Other desirable qualities include a love of fresh air, temperate climate and Spanish colonial architecture. Bring your portable book and sense of humor. We'll provide a fantastic work environment and the resources for you to be a great attorney. Ties to Santa Barbara a plus. Any technical expertise will do, though your strength in medical devices or biotech would provide a good complement to our IT/software/EE core.
SoCal IP Law Group LLP has an established reputation in the region based upon our passion for IP law and dedication to service. The firm is nine years old, enjoys steady growth and a stable team. The partners have big firm experience and international clients, but enjoy a collegial, non-hierarchical environment and strong ties to the local community. Our firm has a full-service IP practice in patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, involving prosecution, litigation, counseling and IP deals. More info at our website.
Dolby Laboratories is seeking a Director, Patent Counsel. The successful candidate will be an experienced patent attorney responsible for supporting active research, development and licensing programs. The position includes a variety of responsibilities such as capturing invention disclosures, performing and managing prosecution, analyzing third-party patents, conducting due diligence related to potential acquisitions and supporting litigation. The position reports to the chief patent counsel and will manage a small team of professionals.
Job Functions: • Align a growing, worldwide patent portfolio with a dynamic business, including the capture and review of invention disclosures and the preparation of recommendations for the invention review committee. • Manage, lead and develop a small team of patent professionals. • Manage domestic and foreign outside counsel in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications. • Draft and prosecute patent applications of particular importance to Dolby’s business. • Advise on the acquisition, development, and commercialization of third party technologies and related intellectual property matters. • Advise on third-party patent claims against products and technologies. • Support patent licensing and enforcement activities. • Provide information and training to internal groups as required regarding patent protection procedures and programs. • Provide such other patent, licensing and intellectual property support as may be assigned.
Skills and Education: • Minimum of 7-10 years of progressive professional experience including at least 3+ years experience as a patent attorney in a top-tier law firm and, preferably, some experience working in house. • Juris doctor degree. • Admission to the California State Bar and USPTO. • Masters degree in electrical engineering with an emphasis on digital signal processing or bachelors degree with equivalent experience, especially in the area of audio signal processing. • Prior success in leading, managing and developing a team. • Excellent writing and communication skills. • Self-initiative and ability to work with minimum of direction in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, often under tight deadlines. • Superior organization and project management skills. • Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications.
Additional Desired Qualifications: • Experience in intellectual property licensing and litigation. • Experience in standard bodies and patent pools. • Management of worldwide patent strategies.
Contact: Please send resume in Word format to docon@dolby.com. Additional Info: Employer Type: Large Corporation Job Location: San Francisco, California
Be part of the exciting future of entertainment and add your talents to those of an amazing team. For more than 40 years Dolby has led the way in developing innovative entertainment products and technologies used by consumers and professionals worldwide. Innovations from Dolby can be heard in consumer audio and video products, entertainment software, and professional sound applications, including music recording, broadcasting, and sound for motion pictures.
Now Dolby is defining high-definition audio and systems for delivering breathtaking digital cinema. Our long-standing commitment to research and development enables our focus to remain on solutions that work today and are prepared for the future. That’s what keeps us on the leading edge of the industry.
Our company philosophy encourages creativity, collaboration, and the desire to perceive things differently. We have been recognized as one of the top 100 best places to work in the Bay Area. We offer a unique and rich array of benefits, including a flexible work schedule and an assortment of health coverage options. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team.
Solazyme is seeking an intellectual property attorney. Reporting to the Associate VP, Intellectual Property, this position will be an essential part of our intellectual property group and will play a key role in the development of the company’s IP portfolio.
Responsibilities: • Preparation and prosecution of U.S. and international patent applications • Support the company’s diverse research areas and product lines • Work closely with research and business units • Manage growing trademark portfolio • Supervise outside patent counsel and trademark counsel • Perform patent searches and prepare due diligence analysis • Assist with other intellectual property matters • Assist and work with corporate counsel • Experience with contracts involving IP is preferred
Qualifications: • 4 - 5 years experience (preferably a combination of firm and corporate) • J.D. from an accredited law school • Bachelor’s degree in required, Ph.D. in biological sciences highly preferred • Admission to a state bar, California preferred • Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office
Additional Qualifications: • Excellent judgment, high personal standards of excellence and unquestioned integrity • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills • Ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment • A motivated, self-starter capable of working independently • Strong intellectual capacity
Solazyme is a biotechnology company that produces tailored oils by microbial fermentation. Our business units include fuels and chemicals, nutritionals, and health sciences. The attorney will support all three business units.
This position comes with a competitive compensation and benefits package, 401k, and equity participation. The position is located in South San Francisco, California.
Contact: Only submissions through our career portal will be accepted. Please visit http://www.solazyme.com/career-opportunities to read more about the job and submit your resume. Solazyme is an equal opportunity employer.
Additional Info: Employer Type: Small Corporation Job Location: San Francisco, California
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, an international law firm, is currently seeking a IP Docket Clerk for its San Francisco office. This position in the Patent Support Services (PatSu) Department of the IP Patent Practice Group will assist our Patent Support Services Manager and PatSu team. Based on procedures established for each of our clients, the successful candidate will review and extract information from foreign and domestic incoming client related communications, as well as Patent and Trademark Office communications, for entry into our docketing database. In addition, this position is responsible for monitoring the Patent and Trademark Office daily dockets and other administrative responsibilities. Additional projects will be assigned.
This position requires a minimum of one year of related patent docketing experience (equivalent education/experience will also be considered). Qualified candidates must have strong communication (written/verbal) and proofreading skills, an organized approach to work assignments, excellent interpersonal skills, an ability to work independently with minimal supervision and a team-oriented attitude. Experience with CPI preferred, but not required. Annuities experience a plus. Flexibility to work overtime required.
The international law firm of Ladas & Parry, LLP in Los Angeles, is seeking a patent attorney with at least two years of patent prosecution experience and a degree in electrical engineering, materials science, or chemical engineering. The position will require prosecution in the mechanical arts and in chip manufacture as well as in your area of specialty. Prior engineering experience will be favorably viewed as will being a member of the Califonia Bar. The position is open to full and part-time applicants. Compensation is based on hours billed.
The firm is also interested in hiring lateral attorneys with their own books of business, who hope to enhance and expand their practice through employment under the Ladas & Parry name.
Contact: To apply for these positions, please send your resume and cover letter. Kindly send these documents in PDF format to: atresume@ladas.com.
Additional Info: Employer Type: Law Firm Job Location: Los Angeles, California
Gilead Sciences is seeking a Director, Intellectual Property to work in its Foster City, California headquarters. The person reports to the Head of Patent Litigation and will be responsible for assisting with the global defense of Gilead’s product patent portfolio. Specific responsibilities will include assisting with patent litigation in the U.S. and foreign countries, conducting and reporting due diligence analysis, providing support in global opposition, invalidation and revocation proceedings and handling a small docket of patent application preparation and prosecution. This is a director level position that provides the successful candidate with the opportunity to work on a wide range of IP issues around the world in a growth-oriented pharmaceutical company.
Essential Duties and Job Functions: • Conduct IP due diligence for in-licensing and acquisition opportunities in a variety of therapeutic areas • Actively participate in litigations teams by assisting with interviewing fact and expert witnesses, collaborating with outside counsel for the preparation of witnesses for deposition and attending same, collaborating with outside counsel in the selection and preparation of expert testimony • Assisting in internal document collection and production • Assist in reviewing correspondence, arguments, memos, and briefs in support of litigation • Assist in providing instruction to local counsel in foreign litigation matters • Assisting with the preparation of comprehensive patent portfolio summary documents and conducting patent portfolio reviews • Assisting in the development of strategy and arguments related to global opposition, invalidation and revocation proceedings
Knowledge, Experience and Skills: • Bachelors degree in biology, chemistry, or related field. • Juris Doctorate and admitted to at least one State Bar, preferably California • USPTO Registration • Experience: At least 8 years of relevant experience which will include a broad range of activities including patent drafting and prosecution, due diligence, opinion work, and patent litigation. Preference will be given to applicants who have at least 2 years of experience in patent litigation and particularly those with experience in ANDA (Hatch-Waxman) litigation. Preferred candidates will have both law firm and in-house experience.
Other: • This position requires working within a team extensively and accordingly, the ability to work collaboratively and efficiently with others is absolutely critical. Candidates must possess strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with a variety of different personalities to be successful in this role. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are necessary, including the ability to fluently speak, write and understand English. • The successful candidate will be given increasing responsibility. Accordingly, the ability to competently carry-out and follow through on directives, to learn quickly and apply legal analysis in a business context, and the ability to work independently to identify issues, goals and needs and identify solutions will be key for future success. • The ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment is critical. • The candidate must be proficient in MS Office-based applications. • Travel Requirements: Business trips within the U.S. and occasionally abroad, common with litigation-related activities will be required.
Additional Info: Employer Type: Large Corporation Job Location: Foster City, California
Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. The company's mission is to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases worldwide. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Gilead has operations in North America, Europe and Australia.
Ring Central, a SaaS/VoIP telecom company, is actively recruiting an in-house IP Counsel. Responsibilities: Patent preparation and prosecution; manage outside counsel; support licensing, portfolio analysis, and technology/patent landscape analysis; counsel and support in developing IP strategy; provide IP guidance in design; manage trademark and IP issues. Local Candidates Only.
Desired Skills & Experience: 4+ years patent prosecution experience; software and telecommunications experience; Electrical Engineering (EE) or Computer Science (CS) degree, Masters preferred. USPTO experience highly desired. Ability to work independently and efficiently both with engineers and scientists and to counsel executive team members on IPR members.
Additional Info: Employer Type: Small Corporation Job Location: San Mateo, California
RingCentral is an industry leader for powerful, hosted core phone service that helps tens of thousands of customers worldwide to improve and manage their communications better. RingCentral has earned top industry honors, including the PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award, the Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Award, and the 2010 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, RingCentral is privately held with backing from Silicon Valley based venture capitalists including Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and DAG Ventures.
Chernoff Vilhauer, a Portland, Oregon law firm, seeks a patent prosecution attorney to join our practice. This position offers the opportunity live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and work in a professional, collegial working environment.
We require: • JD and USPTO registration • 4+ years working as a patent prosecution attorney • Previous experience supervising junior level associate attorneys • Previous experience working directly with clients • A portable book of business • Strong work ethic • Excellent communication and interpersonal skillsWe offer excellent benefits and compensation based on production.
The Denver office of Perkins Coie is seeking a patent prosecution associate with 2-4 years of prosecution experience or a patent agent with 4 or more years of experience to join its growing patent prosecution practice. Candidates must have a background in electrical engineering, computer science or physics. Strong academic credentials, excellent references, and superb written and oral communication skills are required.
Candidates must be admitted to the USPTO; attorney candidates must be admitted to practice law in Colorado. The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter seeking increasing levels of challenge and responsibility in a dynamic environment.
Contact: Qualified applicants should email their resume, law school transcript and cover letter to lawyerhiringDEN@perkinscoie.com.
Additional Info: Employer Type: Law Firm Job Location: Denver, Colorado
Zagorin O’Brien Graham LLP, an Austin-based intellectual property practice, seeks patent attorneys with 2+ years legal experience and experience in circuit design, signal processing, digital communications, computer architecture, and semiconductor technologies. Electrical engineering degree and excellent academic credentials required. Industry experience preferred.
Contact: Zagorin O’Brien Graham LLP 7600 N. Capital of Texas Hwy Building B, Suite 350 Austin, TX 78731 Email: recruiting@ip-counsel.com Phone: 512-338-6312 Fax: 512-338-6301 www.ip-counsel.com
Additional Info: Employer Type: Law Firm Job Location: Austin, Texas
An In-House IP strategist should join the team at Halcyon Molecular, in Silicon Valley. We are seeking someone to cross boundaries by guiding Halcyon in its high-level IP strategy at the same time as implementing that strategy:
• becoming intimate with scientists and engineers so that invention disclosures flow freely and accurately • managing our patent pipeline process, interacting with outside prosecution counsel to optimize their work • researching our competition and how to position Halcyon IP • serving on the IP committee with the CEO and other execs, etc.
Formal title and salary dependent on the individual.
Experience: Strong writing experience is a must, technical writing experience a plus. An extensive scientific background (possibly even a PhD) is a plus, as is experience with patent law.
Life Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Patent Attorney (IP Counsel) in Foster City or Carlsbad, CA. This position is responsible for the development and strategy of Life Technologies' intellectual property portfolio related to molecular biology research and electronic instruments for amplification and detection of biomolecules.
Responsibilities: This role involves invention harvesting, patent application preparation & prosecution, patent strategy and portfolio management, business IP counseling, due diligence, product clearance, patent agent oversight, and litigation support, all in the context of a full understanding of the relevant business needs and issues.
Relevant skills include patent application preparation & prosecution, reexamination practice, invention disclosure review, patent searching, competitive landscaping, and patentability and infringement analysis.
Experience with merger/acquisition due diligence, clearance opinions, and patent litigation is also valued.
Requirements: An advanced degree in Electrical Engineering (M.Sc. or higher required) or Physics (Ph.D. preferred) from a top academic program. Current experience in Biotechnology-related instrument/device prosecution is preferred.
The individual must be registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and licensed to practice in at least one US jurisdiction and eligible for Registered In-House Counsel (RIHC) status in California. The candidate must have graduated at the top 33% of his law school graduating class and from a top tier, ABA accredited, law school.
4-8 years of patent prosecution experience is preferred, with at least 2 years as an attorney in a top tier National law firm. Experience and interest in providing direction to junior associates or patent agents is also desired.
Strong technical ability and understanding of the latest scientific advancements and most recent legal developments are highly desired. Specific understanding and experience in VLSI, digital and analog circuit design and fabrication, thin-film deposition, nanotechnology fabrication, CMOS design and implementation as well as an understanding of basic chemistry are required. Experience in the Life Science, medical devices and/or Biotechnology industries is strongly preferred.
Exceptional interpersonal, communication (written and verbal) skills and strong initiative is required. The ability to work collaboratively and in a team environment is also necessary to be successful in this position.
Contact: Please apply by visiting www.lifetechnologies.com/careers. Life Technologies is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce.
Additional Info: Employer Type: Large Corporation Job Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Making Life Even Better. When it comes to the vision of shaping discovery and improving life, no other company can match the breadth of products and services in the life sciences field to meet this vision than Life Technologies. Created through the combination of biotechnology leaders Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen, Life Technologies’ systems, consumables and services enable researchers to accelerate scientific exploration, driving to discoveries and developments that improve the human condition and the world around us. Our customers do their work across the biological spectrum, working to advance personalized medicine, regenerative science, molecular diagnostics, agricultural and environmental research, and 21st century forensics. With historical sales of approximately $3.5 billion, a presence in more than 100 countries, and a rapidly growing intellectual property estate of over 3,600 patents and exclusive licenses, we are poised to truly shape the world of science. Join a team of more than 9,! 500 employees around the world who are engaged, curious, insightful, responsible and driven to make life even better.
ST-Ericsson is an industry leader in design, development and creation of cutting edge mobile platforms and semiconductors across the broad spectrum of wireless technologies. The company is a key supplier to four of the top five handset manufacturers, which together represent about 80 percent of global handset shipments, as well as to other exciting industry leaders, including mobile operators and device manufacturers.
ST-Ericsson is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with main centers in China, France Japan, Korea and Sweden and locations in 20 more countries. Our global presence means we are always close to our customers and fully understand their specific markets.
The Legal unit needs to strengthen the team with an Attorney (Litigation & Disputes).
Mission: • Provide qualified and highly efficient legal support to ST-Ericsson clients in relation to disputes and litigations concerning the ST-Ericsson Group covering all aspects of any controversy or claim and all aspects of dispute resolution, such as litigation, arbitration, mediation but also settlement of any controversy or claim outside of court or arbitration, including patent licensing. • Provide such legal support in all areas, such as commercial, IP, financial and labour disputes but especially IP. • Provide risk assessments and related strategy proposals based on current status of disputes and claims and further, based on such status, in concert with business responsible staff, review and develop business models and ways of conducting business. • Provide legal training to ST-Ericsson clients. • Continuously develop appropriate and efficient methods and tools for providing legal support, and generally improve quality of and reduce costs for legal services provided. • Manage and control external legal dispute and litigation resources. • Proactively assist in all other matters within the field of responsibility of the Legal Affairs function.
Required Experience: • More than seven years experience of practicing qualified commercial IP law, dispute and litigations and extensive international experience, either through an assignment abroad or by working in a large number of matters with a substantial and varied international character • Extensive and proven experience of managing patent licensing, disputes and litigations matters under especially the US legal system.
Required Education Level: Master of Law
Other Skills/Competencies/Attributes: • Good ability to handle and communicate with internal contacts, external counsels and counter parties. • Excellent negotiation skills • Ability to develop, implement and drive new working methods and tools • Interest and preferably proven skills in educating internal clients in suitable standard legal matters • Good ability to handle and stand stress • Fluent in English.
Sheldon Mak & Anderson, a Pasadena, California IP boutique, is seeking an attorney with 2 to 5 years experience in IP litigation. Must be a member of the CA Bar, member of the Patent Bar preferred.
Allerganis seeking a Senior Patent Counsel to work in Irvine, California. Position reports directly to Chief IP Counsel. Responsibilities will include advising the company on IP issues, supervising outside counsel, and developing and coordinating IP strategy for the company. This position works on a broad spectrum of IP issues, and specific duties include origination and prosecution of patents, domestic and international, patentability, infringement and validity opinions, patent oppositions, collaboration and licensing agreements, IP due diligence, IP related transactions, and litigation support.
Requirements: • Minimum of 8 to 15 years of legal experience. • Law degree from a superior law school and a chemistry, biology or other life science undergraduate degree. • Large law firm training. • Corporate experience. • Member of a state bar. • USPTO registration. • Strong knowledge of US patent office procedures and practice. • Experience managing legal and non legal staff. • Substantial experience in domestic and foreign patent prosecution. • Substantial experience in IP due diligence and IP related transactions. • Exposure to a wide range of intellectual property matters in areas including patent origination and prosecution, opinions, licensing, IP due diligence, IP related transactions, international expertise, internal processes around intellectual property development, conflict resolution and intellectual property litigation. • Strong background in pharmaceutical or biotech field. • Member of the California State Bar preferred. • Strong leadership and decision making skills desired. • Superior negotiating skills desired. • Ability to work with a great deal of autonomy desired. • Strong communication skills desired. • Interpersonal ability to inspire confidence among senior management and outside counsel.
Stanford Law School invites applications for the position of Director of its soon-to-be-launched Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic (“Juelsgaard Clinic”). The appointment will begin for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Once it is up and running, the Juelsgaard Clinic will be one of ten clinical programs making up the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School (the Juelsgaard Clinic is the successor to the Law School’s acclaimed Cyberlaw Clinic). It will provide students opportunities to work as lawyers, on behalf of the clinic’s clients, in advocating that intellectual property law and regulatory policy be developed in manners that are keenly sensitive to the goals of promoting innovation and creativity. The clinic will also work together with various Stanford Law School centers and technology and innovation leaders in Silicon Valley.
Working under the close supervision of the Director and a Clinical Teaching Fellow, the Juelsgaard Clinic will engage students in using numerous tools, on behalf of the Clinic’s clients, to advocate for sound policies that stimulate the types of innovation that have been, and will continue to be, the engines through which the lives and welfare of the world’s inhabitants are improved.
We anticipate that the Clinic’s work will focus on representing the interests of its clients (primarily non-governmental organizations) in a wide array of subject areas involving the promotion of vital innovation, including:
· Biotechnology; · Information technology; · Pharmaceuticals; · Clean technology; and · Innovations in the creation and distribution of information.
The particular matters to be handled by the Juelsgaard Clinic will be determined by the Clinic Director, although decisions about the overall direction of the Juelsgaard Clinic’s work will be made in consultation with the Law School’s Director of Clinical Education and several other faculty members.
The vehicles the Juelsgaard Clinic will use to promote its clients’ interests will vary in accordance with the context. We anticipate they will include:
· Drafting and distribution of White Papers on key issues relating to the impact of policies on the promotion of innovation; · Filing Amicus Curiae briefs on behalf of clients in key cases; · Drafting legislation and proposed regulations; · Commenting and testifying on proposed bills and regulations; and · Promulgating “best practices” that universities and other institutions can use to promote innovation among the members of their communities.
As with other Clinics at Stanford Law School, students enrolled in the Juelsgaard Clinic (typically 8-10 students) will spend an entire quarter (approximately 12 weeks) devoted entirely to the work of the Clinic on a full-time basis (i.e., enrolled in no other classes). This model is quite unique among law school clinics. At the end of the quarter, students generally transfer responsibility on open matters to other students, but may (at the director’s discretion) retain some continuing duties with respect to particular matters as Advanced Clinic students, depending on the circumstances. Each individual clinic works with a set of full-time students during two quarters each year.
Duties of the Director of the Juelsgaard Clinic include:
· Developing the clinic’s operating plan; · Directly supervising Stanford law students; · Identifying and developing clients; · Managing all projects and clients; · Developing the curriculum; · Supervising and collaborating with the Clinical Teaching Fellow and staff; · Teaching the clinical seminar during the two quarters each academic year that the clinic is working with sets of new students; · Collaborating with clinical and other faculty at the Law School; · Attending conferences and interacting with faculty at other institutions; · Assisting in the development of additional resources; · Participating in faculty governance at the Law School (depending on the status of the appointment, as discussed below); and · Acting as liaison with the public and the Law School community.
The appointment as Director of the Juelsgaard Clinic will be accompanied, depending on experience, by either (a) a professorial appointment to the clinical faculty, or (b) an appointment for a three-year term as a Lecturer, with the anticipation that the Director will be evaluated for possible appointment to the clinical faculty in his or her third year at the Law School.
We seek candidates with the following qualifications:
· Distinguished practice experience for at least ten years as a lawyer in areas relating to intellectual property and innovation (although slightly less experience may suffice in exceptional circumstances); · Demonstrated excellence in clinical teaching (or the supervision of law students) or demonstrated potential for such excellence in teaching or supervision; · Strong commitment to clinical education; · An academic record that demonstrates the capacity to be an active participant in the Law School’s academic community, the national intellectual property and clinical-education communities; · Membership in the California State Bar, or a willingness to take the examination necessary for admission within one year of the commencement of employment; · Excellent writing and analytic skills; · Experience and ability to direct large projects; · Ability to work in a self-directed and entrepreneurial environment; and · A track record of working well in a collegial environment.
Contact: Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume (with at least three references) by mail or e-mail to: Professor Lawrence Marshall, Associate Dean for Clinical Education, Stanford Law School, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305. Email: lmarshall@stanford.edu.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity.
Additional Info: Employer Type: Educational Job Location: Stanford, California
Luce Forward seeks to expand its patent and trademark prosecution and litigation practices in its Orange County office. Ideal candidates will have a minimum of seven years experience prosecuting or litigating patent and trademark matters. Luce Forward seeks quality personnel who have technical backgrounds in biotechnology, medical devices, software, or electrical engineering. Patent prosecutors must be registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A portable book of business is required.
Additional Info: Employer Type: Law Firm Job Location: Irvine, California
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP is a full-service California law firm with a national reputation in more than 30 different areas of law. Since its founding in San Diego in 1873, Luce Forward has grown to become home to over 140 attorneys in six offices statewide including San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Carmel Valley/Del Mar, Orange County and Rancho Santa Fe.
Allerganis a global, technology-driven multi-specialty health care company pursuing therapeutic advances to help patients live life to their fullest potential. In making this commitment, we work to develop an unparalleled level of insight into patients' wants and needs - and into the priorities and concerns of the medical specialists who treat them. To this end, we employ more than 50 percent of our work force in either research and development (R&D) or sales, ensuring our efforts are focused on innovation and our customers.
Position mainly focuses on chemical, small molecule and pharmaceutical patent prosecution work, both domestic and international. Position will advise Research and Development and business groups on patent matters. Opinion work includes freedom to operate, patentability and invalidity. Ideal opportunity to work as part of a patent team in Allergan's corporate headquarters.
Requirements: • PhD or Masters in a pharmaceutical related field with minimum 3 to 5 years patent prosecution experience • Must have passed the Patent Bar • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Attention to detail
The Los Angeles office of Ladas & Parry, LLP, an international intellectual property law firm, is seeking experienced intellectual property prosecutors with any one of the following: 1) registration as a patent agent/attorney before the USPTO and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering; 2)registration as a patent agent/attorney before the USPTO, a bachelor's degree in chemistry, and some portable book of business; and 3) at least two years of trademark prosecution experience with a self-supporting book of business.
Contact: if you are interested in applying for any of these positions, please submit your resume and cover letter to atresume@ladas.com.
Additional Info: Employer Type: Law Firm Job Location: Los Angeles, California
seeks an Attorney, Intellectual Property and Licensing.
