As 
the world’s leading developer and supplier of advanced plant genetics to farmers worldwide, Pioneer is seeking Intellectual Property Attorneys to provide direction and guidance for intellectual property strategies in Agricultural Biotechnology and Crop Genetics Research and Development, including technology licensing, research collaborations and mergers & acquisitions in collaboration with other Intellectual Property, Litigation, Licensing, and Commercial counsel, both internal and external. The more senior candidate will provide overall direction and management for certain intellectual property litigation matters, minimizes adverse intellectual property litigation outcomes, and utilizes creative approaches to intellectual property strategies.
IP Counsel – Large Corporation – Lawrenceville, N.J.
Bristol-Myers Squibb 
is seeking an IP Counsel to work in Lawrenceville, N.J. The attorney in this position will be responsible for addressing global biotechnology patent issues for R&D, business development, and other functions within BMS. The work includes patent application preparation and prosecution, client counseling, and rendering legal opinions in relation to patentability, validity, and freedom to operate. Other responsibilities include Intellectual Property due diligence reviews, Intellectual Property transactional work, and patent matters relating to ongoing BMS alliances with third parties. The attorney is expected to collaborate with other in-house and outside attorneys to accomplish the objectives of the BMS Intellectual Property Department. The attorney will also be required to work closely with senior IP leadership in counseling clients, review Intellectual Property issues, formulate strategies, and effectively communicate with R&D, business development, and other BMS clients.
The ideal candidate must have 5 or more years of patent attorney experience (including USPTO registration) in biotechnology or a mix of biotechnology and chemical practice, as well as strong academic credentials including a background in molecular biology or biochemistry. The candidate must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, be a self starter, energetic, analytical, and have the ability to work well alone as well as part of a team. The successful candidate must also have excellent judgment and the ability to recognize legal issues and effectively communicate such issues to patent, legal, and general management.
Contact:
For more details and to formally apply to requisition #1104810, please visit our website, www.bms.com/careers.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Large Corporation
Job Location: Lawrenceville, N.J.
Patent Litigation Associate – Law Firm – Dallas, Texas
Buether Joe & Carpenter, LLC is seeking one or more associate attorneys having substantial experience with patent infringement litigation. Qualified candidates must be current members of the Texas bar.
Five or more years of patent litigation experience strongly preferred. Technical degree, PTO admission, and strong academic credentials also preferred.
Suitable candidates must have excellent writing and oral communication skills and must also be capable of working independently to handle significant responsibilities involving all aspects of a patent infringement case, including management of patent litigation from complaint to trial.
Buether Joe & Carpenter, LLC is an intellectual property and commercial litigation boutique law firm. We focus our practice on patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition litigation, as well as antitrust, contract and other business disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Contact:
Please send a cover letter, resume, a writing sample, and any additional materials to chris.joe@bjciplaw.com.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Law Firm
Job Location: Dallas, Texas
IP Counsel – Small Corporation – Las Vegas, N.V.
Shuffle Master, Inc., 
a gaming supply company specializing in popular cutting-edge gaming entertainment, is seeking an Intellectual Property Counsel to join our team. We are a dynamic, growing organization with a substantial Intellectual Property portfolio. This position located in Las Vegas and relocation assistance is possible.
Wonder what you will be doing?
• Prepare invention disclosures.
• Evaluate invention disclosures.
• Perform opinion work related to novelty, patent clearance studies and infringement to include the preparation and prosecution of patent applications.
• Coordinate international patent clearance study work.
What do we need you to bring to the table?
• Minimum of five years of IP experience.
• Must be comfortable with all of the following patent subject matter and significant experience with at least two:
-Process
-Mechanical
-Software
-Light Electrical Systems
• Must be comfortable with frequent interaction with technical teams, business people and senior management.
• Law degree from an ABA approved law school required, undergraduate degree in Engineering preferred.
• Prefer career start in law firm, with long-term experience in at least one firm or company.
• Must be conversant with U.S.P.T.O. procedures. Prefer experience in managing International patent portfolio and drafting substantive instructions to foreign associates.
• Team management experience a plus.
What will we bring to the table?
• Very competitive benefits package.
• Fast-paced, progressive work environment.
• Opportunities to impact company strategies and goals.
• Personal development plans to help ensure your success.
References, transcripts and writing samples should be available upon our request. Benefits at Shuffle Master, Inc. include a group health, dental and vision plan, long term disability and life insurance, paid vacations and paid holidays.
Contact:
So, what are you waiting for? Apply today!
Shuffle Master, Inc.
1106 Palms Airport Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89119
jchan@shufflemaster.com
Shuffle Master, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Principals only please. Temporary or permanent placement recruiters, please don't contact this job poster. Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Small Corporation
Job Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Patent Assistants – Sandia National Laboratories – Albuquerque, N.M. (Updated)
Sandia National Laboratories 
is one of the country's largest research and engineering laboratories in the nation, employing over 8,000 people at major facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Livermore, California. We make enduring contributions to secure our society against high consequence terrorist threats and national incidents through effective use of science, technology, and systems solutions. Please visit our website at www.sandia.gov. We are searching for Patent Assistants for the Legal Technology Transfer Center for the Albuquerque facility. The salary is commensurate. A benefit package is available. Must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Security Clearance.
Review and act upon materials received from USPTO, preparing draft materials responsive to USPTO for attorney review and/or completion, maintaining attorney dockets, maintaining patent database (database entry, errors checks), and maintaining hardcopy files. Will act as primary support for one or more attorneys, including preparing materials for attorneys signature (missing parts, certificates of correction, engagement letters, etc.), calculating filing fees, conducting database searches for attorneys (reference prior art, private PAIR, etc.), filing materials in USPTO in accordance with federal rules, maintaining USPTO deposit account, and coordinate payment of patent maintenance fees.
Experience working with and understanding of the rules and regulations set forth by the United States Patent & Trademark Office, (USPTO); working in a patent prosecution environment within a law firm or in-house are required. Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, and a demonstrated ability to deal effectively with people at all levels of the organization, both internal and external to Sandia; self-motivated, work well under pressure and be able to prioritize work assignments with little supervision; proficient with Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook); ability to maintain a professional demeanor in a fast-paced, demanding environment; ability to exercise great prudence in the protection of confidential and sensitive information; and adept at meeting frequent deadlines with constant interruptions while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail are all required.
Paralegal degree and experience with IP Management software (i.e. Thompson Rueters IP Manager or CPA Global Memotech or IPFoundation software suites) are desirables.
Contact:
Please apply online at http://www.sandia.gov/careers/search-openings.html, click Search for Openings, and reference Job ID Number: 639394.
U.S. Citizenship Normally Required. Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Government
Job Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Contract Patent Attorney/Agent – Law Firm – Bay Area, Calif.
The Storella Law Group 
is seeking contract patent attorney or patent agent with excellent skills and expertise in biotechnology to do patent prosecution and IP diligence for private practice and with start-up and growing biotechnology companies. Bay Area preferred but will consider virtual relationship. Flexible compensation arrangements.
Contact:
Apply by contacting the firm at: http://www.johnstorella.com/contact.html.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Law Firm
Job Location: Bay Area, California
Patent Portfolio Manager – Large Corporation – Cupertino, Calif.
Apple seeks to hire a patent portfolio manager to assist in developing and maintaining the company’s patent portfolio. The successful candidate will work with the business to identify patentable inventions; participate in internal invention disclosure review processes; provide guidance regarding the patentability of inventions under review; prepare and prosecute high quality, strategic patent assets; assign and manage work performed by outside law firms; review applications prepared by outside counsel; provide technical and legal commentary to ensure overall application quality; work with the IP team to develop and implement patent strategy; and work with engineering and other business organizations to understand business priorities and challenges and incorporate those into strategy. This position may also participate in tasks supporting acquisition due diligence, IP licensing, litigation and standards activities.
The successful candidate is a registered patent attorney with a minimum of 5 years experience in patent preparation, prosecution and management. A degree in physics, EE, or CS required. Must communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing. Computer industry experience is desirable.
Contact:
For additional information and to apply for this position, please visit this link: http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=92568&CurrentPage=1.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Large Corporation
Job Location: Cupertino, California
Apple, ranking #35 on the 2011 Fortune 500 list, is an industry leader in technology innovation, delivering exciting products such as Macs, OSX, iLife, iWork, professional software, iPods, iTunes, iPhone, iPad 2 and App Store. Apple has over 5000 patents worldwide. The Patent Board recently recognized the quality of this patent portfolio, ranking Apple’s portfolio as #6 on its Information Technology Scorecard (July 2011).
Senior Patent Attorney – Large Corporation – Farmington Hills, Mich.
Harman International 
is seeking a patent attorney with strong patent prosecution experience. The ideal candidate will be skilled at drafting and prosecuting patent applications (both US and foreign originating), identifying patentable subject matter, harvesting invention disclosures, collaborating with both engineering and business unit executive management to develop and execute patent prosecution strategies, working well in a team-oriented environment, coordinating with foreign counsel and supervising external patent counsel and internal patent personnel. Experience with IP licensing, litigation and patentability and freedom to operate studies/activities is a plus.
Essential Responsibilities:
• Interfacing regularly with engineers to identify patentable subject matter.
• Drafting and prosecuting patent applications for a global patent portfolio (significant portion of the role).
• Collaboration with engineering and business unit executive management.
• Supervising patent counsel, patent attorneys and paralegals.
• Ability to assist with developing US and overseas patent strategy.
• Working with the IP leadership team to determine appropriate freedom to operate/patentability strategies.
Basic Qualifications:
• One needs at least 8 years experience with patent prosecution.
• Member of a state bar.
• Admitted to practice before the USPTO.
• Technical background in electrical engineering, physics, computer science, or mechanical engineering. Technical knowledge of audio components and acoustics a plus.
• Substantial experience in domestic and foreign patent prosecution.
• Excellent English written and oral communications skills.
• Willingness and ability to engage in extensive traveling (Harman has engineering centers throughout the world).
• Ability to multi-task and collaborate (in writing and verbally) across all levels of the organization.
Desired Characteristics:
• Large IP law firm experience preferred; in-house experience is a plus.
• IP licensing.
• Developing and overseeing IP litigation and pre-litigation strategies.
• Experience supporting patent litigation.
Eligibility Requirements:
• Willingness to travel 35%+ of the time.
• Willingness to work in an office in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
• Willingness to submit to a background screen and a drug test.
Contact:
Apply online by visitng the careers section of our website: http://www.harman.com/Careers/Pages/Welcome.aspx.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Large Corporation
Job Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Harman International Industries, Incorporated (Harman International) is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of high-fidelity audio products and electronic systems. The Company has developed, both internally and through a series of acquisitions, a range of product offerings. It operates in three segments: Lifestyle, Infotainment and Professional. The Lifestyle segment designs, manufactures and markets audio systems for vehicle applications primarily to be installed as original equipment by automotive manufacturers as well as audio, video and electronic systems for home, mobile and multimedia applications. The Infotainment segment manufactures and markets infotainment systems for vehicles applications primarily to be installed as original equipment by automotive manufacturers. The Professional segment designs, manufactures and markets loudspeakers and electronic systems used by audio professionals in concert halls, stadiums, airports, houses of worship and theme attractions.
Patent Attorney – Law Firm – Multiple Locations
Lee & Hayes, an internationally known intellectual property (IP) law firm, is seeking patent attorneys with at least 3 years of law firm or combined law firm and in-house patent experience in the Electrical Engineering (EE) or Computer Engineering fields. Lee & Hayes advises some of the world’s largest multinational electronic commerce companies on IP strategy and management and the preparation and prosecution of their patent portfolios. We focus on the business side of IP law, including patent preparation, patent prosecution, client counseling, infringement, validity analysis, and licensing and transactional work.
Lee & Hayes, was ranked number one overall in patent quality and in information technology for the past two years in a row, 2010 and 2011, by the Intellectual Asset Management magazine. We were also ranked number two for Innovation Cycle Time and in the top five for technology strength of patents issued, as rated by Intellectual Property Today. Lee & Hayes has a team oriented structure that values our professionals as equal and important team members. We foster a comfortable and professional work environment that is more akin to a high-tech industry setting. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. Positions are available in Spokane, WA, Seattle WA, or Austin, TX.
Qualifications:
Three or more years of law firm or combined law firm and in-house patent prosecution experience. Greatly prefer Electrical Engineering (EE) or Computer Engineering/Science degrees. Strong interpersonal, written and verbal skills are required. Excellent academic record and USPTO registration are also required.
Contact:
For confidential consideration, please submit your resume (with USPTO registration) to hr@leehayes.com. Lee & Hayes is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Law Firm
Job Location: Spokane or Seattle, Washington; or Austin, Texas
Patent Attorney – Small Corporation – Chicago, Ill.
Trading Technologies is currently seeking a driven and talented Patent Lawyer for the Intellectual Property (IP) team in Chicago, Illinois. The Patent Lawyer will have an integral role in the development and management of Trading Technologies expanding global patent portfolio in the trading software industry. The successful candidate will be self-motivated and comfortable with teamwork.
Responsibilities:
• Help to continue to strategically build a patent portfolio.
• Work closely with our Engineering, R&D and Product Management departments.
• Generate new disclosures.
• Prosecute patent applications.
• Work with outside counsel on prosecution matters.
• Work on patent acquisition projects.
• Monitor and evaluate industry patents.
• Assist with litigation/licensing as needed.
• Provide other general legal advice.
Requirements:
• At least a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science.
• Admission to a state bar and the Patent Bar.
• 3-5 years of demonstrated prosecution experience as a Patent Lawyer, preferably with extensive computer software experience.
• Experience prosecuting patent applications filed in the business method art units is a plus.
• Experience dealing with IP issues and working with law firms outside the U.S.
• In-house as wells as outside counsel experience is a plus.
• Experienced, creative, confident, well organized, and a self-starter.
• Excellent communication skills.
TT is committed to providing an environment where highly talented, challenge-hungry people thrive. We invest heavily in employee satisfaction. Competitive salaries, stock options, company-matched retirement plans, low-cost comprehensive health benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts, 22 days of paid time off plus holidays, pre-tax commuting benefits, health club subsidies, company-sponsored social outings, game room lounges, an ultra-casual work environment, and free breakfast and beverages are just some of the benefits of working at TT.
TT is looking for candidates that put forth a serious effort for a serious reward!
Contact:
For more information regarding TT, please visit our career website to view our video. Please send your resumes to: careers@tradingtechnologies.com.
Trading Technologies
222 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1100
Chicago, IL 60606
http://www.tradingtechnologies.com/careers
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Small Corporation
Job Location: Chicago, Illinois
Are you interested in exploring your passion and developing your knack in an industry that demands technological innovation? Trading Technologies (http://www.tradingtechnologies.com) develops high-performance trading software for derivatives professionals, including the world’s premier investment banks, proprietary traders, brokers, Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs), hedge funds and other trading institutions. The company’s X_TRADER® software and related services provide direct access to dozens of the major international derivatives exchanges. TTNET™, TT’s fully managed hosting solution, delivers maximum system stability and fast trade execution via hubs located close to the major exchanges in Chicago, New Jersey, London, Frankfurt, Singapore and Tokyo. Headquartered in Chicago with 11 offices globally, TT has received "best in class" awards from numerous independent third parties including FOW, Buy-Side Technology, The Technical Analyst and Chicago magazines as well as the Illinois Information Technology Association (ITA).
IP Counsel – Large Corporation – Multiple Locations
Fairchild Semiconductor 
seeks an intellectual property attorney with a EE degree and understanding of semiconductor technology, incluing discrete technologies and/or IC circuitry to work in either South Portland, Maine or San Jose, Calif.
Responsibilities:
• Working with the global director of IP to help formulate and implement worldwide patent strategy.
• Partnering with business unit at the segment and product line levels to integrate patent strategy; help identify patents the company can or should seek based on business and intellectual property strategies
• Aid technical staff in developing new products and patent opportunities support and assist with management of intellectual property litigation as needed.
• Assist in licensing of products and technology and other business support identify infringement and evaluate opportunities to enforce patent rights.
• IP-related due diligence in connection with acquisitions and other corporate transactions assist in developing and nurturing the organizational partnership between legal and business units, including innovation promotion and training programs.
• Working alongside in-house IP team, business lawyers and outside IP and non-IP specialists as needed, this position is responsible for providing general strategic patent and general IP advice to the supported organizations, and helping to formulate an optimal IP strategy in the context of the supported organizations’ overall strategy, threats and opportunities faced today and in the future.
• The candidate will work closely with and report to the global director of IP.
Qualifications:
Position duties fall into three major categories: (1) patent strategy and prosecution; (2) patent enforcement and IP litigation; and (3) patent/IP licensing and related business transactions. Experience in these areas is preferred.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), strong interpersonal abilities and the ability to work in a matrix management environment are essential. The successful candidate would be respected as a business team player as well as trusted counselor and legal advisor to the business units the attorney will partner with.
Other helpful but not required attributes would include:
• Experience as an engineer working with discrete and/or analog circuits experience as in-house counsel or patent agent/engineer working to develop patent and IP capture programs.
• Direct experience in patent litigation and/or patent dispute resolution significant experience as a lawyer outside of the area of patent prosecution.
• Demonstrated ability as a lawyer in dealing with a variety of technologies demonstrated ability to work independently and manage projects.
• Pre-law work experience and overall maturity will be valued.
Education:
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications:
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in electrical engineering or closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated competence with semiconductor technologies including discrete semiconductor technologies as well as analog and/or digital integrated circuitry.
• Law degree, with a minimum of 3 years experience as a lawyer.
• Admission to the practice of law and/or admission/license to practice patent law as applicable.
Contact:
Apply online by visiting this link: http://careers.fairchildsemi.com/details.asp?id=Q0VFK026203F3VBQB8MQWF6XC&nPostingID=209&nPostingTargetID=922&nDepartmentID=12&mask=fcext.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Large Corporation
Job Location: South Portland, Maine or San Jose, California
Patent Searcher – Small Corporation – Los Gatos, Calif.
DTS
, a digital technology company dedicated to delivering the ultimate entertainment experience, is seeking a patent searcher to work in its Los Gatos, California, offices. The person will be an employee of the Legal department providing IP, technical and legal searching services to the Company worldwide. The person shall act as a liaison between legal and Engineering, to elicit intellectual property disclosures, extract details and generate documentation of intellectual property, including Patent, trade secret and copyrighted assets. The person shall help in early stage intellectual property due diligence analyzing third party intellectual property assets associated with potential license or acquisition, provide proactive IP analysis to the various technical teams related to future R&D efforts, assist in IP infringement/enforcement analysis and litigation support, and monitor technology and IP activities of the Company’s competition.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
• Search patent data bases and analyze relevant reference as to potential infringement and/or validity of patent or invention of interest
• Search technical or other data bases and non-patent materials and analyze relevant reference as to potential infringement and/or validity of patent or invention of interest.
• Work with Company technical staff to understand future R&D direction and analyze and provide guidance related to IP issues/roadblocks.
• Work with Engineers to develop invention disclosures, document inventions and prepare patent applications.
• Monitor Company’s competition related to technology developments and issued IP and provide prompt summaries of such events.
• Evaluates the validity, scope and value of a target company’s IP assets for possible acquisition or license.
• Supports IP counsel related to pre-patent filing review, invention viability assessment, patent validity and infringement analysis, preparation of patent applications and prosecution of same.
• Provides other general technical and legal searching services.
• Prepare written analysis or the various analysis and searches.
• Evaluate intellectual property in relation to present and proposed standards and technology ecosystems.
• Strong ability to use technical and legal databases for IP and technical analysis.
• Strong technical competence in the electrical, computer engineering, computer science and software area, preferably in the digital signal processing area.
• Ability to work with engineers to develop invention disclosures and documentation
• A strong ability to communicate technical material in clear and precise written English is an absolute necessity.
• Strong technical reading and writing skills.
• Ability to quickly assess technical literature.
• Prior patent searching experience (3+ yrs).
• Ability to function well in cross-disciplinary team environment
Required Education and Experience:
• 3+ years searching and/or patent prosecution experience.
• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Strong technical skills in the electrical, computer engineering, computer science and software area, preferably in the digital signal processing area.
• Document preparation, reading and review.
• Excellent communication skills, customer oriented.
• Strong organizational & writing skills.
• Proficient in WESTLAW, DELPHION, DIALOG, USPTO databases/systems, Derwent & Impodoc, etc. Familiarity with MineSoft and PatBase software a strong plus.
• Detail and quality oriented.
• Motivated and self-starter, ability to work with little supervision.
• Current knowledge of general patent law and USPTO procedures a plus.
• Requires a bachelor degree or higher degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics or computer science, preferably with experience in digital signal processing.
• 3+ years searching experience.
• Patent agent USPTO registration preferred.
• Chinese, Japanese reading skills a plus
• Must have strong mathematical skills sufficient to understand the company’s products and services and materials searched.
• Strong reasoning skills required
• Strong computer skills and ability to use legal and database resource tools such as WESTLAW, LEXIS, DELPHION, DIALOG, USPTO databases/systems, Derwent & Impodoc, etc. Familiarity with MineSoft and PatBase software a strong plus.
• Some competence with spreadsheet and word processing software.
• Ability to read matlab, C, C++ code at rudimentary level.
Contact:
Apply online by visiting this link: http://www.resumeware.net/dts_rw/dts_web/job_detail.cfm?recnum=5&totalrecs=21&start=1&pagestart=1&reqnum=10527.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Small Corporation
Job Location: Los Gatos, California
DTS, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTSI) is a digital technology company dedicated to delivering the ultimate entertainment experience. DTS decoders are in virtually every major brand of multi-channel surround processor, and there are hundreds of millions of DTS-licensed consumer electronics products available worldwide. A pioneer in multi-channel audio, DTS technology is in home theatre, car audio, PC and game console products, as well as DVD-Video, Blu-ray Disc and Surround Music software. Founded in 1993, DTS' corporate headquarters are located in Calabasas, California with its licensing operations headquartered in Limerick, Ireland. DTS also has offices in Northern California, Washington, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. DTS is a registered trademark of DTS, Inc.
Sr. Patent Engineer – Large Corporation – Huntington Beach, Calif.
Cleveland Golf / Srixon is seeking a senior patent engineer to work in its Huntington Beach, California offices.
Summary:
• Use mechanical-engineering skills as well as knowledge of patent laws and regulations to in furtherance of the Company’s objective of creating commercially successful golf products
• Assist in the design or redesign of future products taking into consideration engineering and patent-related constraints
• Help develop the Company’s intellectual property portfolio by assisting patent preparation and prosecution activities
• Identify infringement of Company patents
Essential Functions:
• Routinely attend engineering-design meetings and interface with product-design and development engineers to identify and resolve patent-related issues
• Oversee or perform novelty, patentability, validity, and product clearance searches
• Analyze patent-search results vis-à-vis corresponding products to assess freedom to produce and/or patentability
• Assist in the preparation of utility and design patent applications
Special Skills Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• At least four years of Patent Engineering experience directly related to golf equipment
• Familiarity with laboratory procedures and associated instruments for testing golf equipment
• Familiarity with US, Japanese, and International patent-classification systems
• Advanced searching ability using the JPO Industrial Property Digital Library (IPDL), USPTO PatFT & AppFT, as well as EPO Esp@cenet, Delphion and NERAC databases.
• At least two years of Mechanical Design experience using solid modeling applications and reverse-engineering techniques
• Previous experience as a Patent Examiner in the art of Mechanical Engineering
• Successful completion of the USPTO Patent Agent Registration Examination
Equipment Used:
• Computer
• Basic office and filing equipment
• Instruments for testing golf equipment (e.g., COR and MOI machines)
• Precision-measurement instruments
Contact:
Apply by emailing us at: humanresources@clevelandgolf.com.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Large Corporation
Job Location: Huntington Beach, California
Patent Counsel Large Corporation – India (Hyderabad, Bangalore, or Chennai)
Qualcomm is looking for a US Patent Attorney or a registered India Patent Attorney/ Agent to support Qualcomm's facilities in Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Chennai. The ideal candidate will also have several years practice across all aspects of patent law, and have experience in interfacing with Government agencies and official bodies in relation to policy, legislation and standards. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to deliver effective and sound legal and leadership judgment in the day-to-day execution of the duties and responsibilities that attach to the position.
Responsibilities:
• Contributing to internal patent review boards on the selection of inventions conceived in India for patent protection in India and around the world.
• Supervising and reviewing the preparation of patent applications by outside patent counsel in India for first filing and prosecution at the Patent Office in India and/or the USPTO and subsequent filing and prosecution internationally via the PCT system.
• Providing advice to internal clients on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, on legal issues in general and in relation to domestic and international patent law, and on Qualcomms internal patent processes and procedures, including client education on the same.
• Reviewing, from an IP perspective, contracts, company policy documents and documents for public release, and assisting in patent analysis and due diligence investigations.
• Working with the companys Government Affairs, IP Strategy, and legal teams in the development and execution of the companys intellectual property strategy and policy advocacy programs, including interfacing with relevant branches of the Indian government and academic institutions to promote international best practices in India in relation to intellectual property including patents, designs, trademarks and copyrights, in relation to competition/anti-trust legislation and in relation to standards.
Candidates will be a Registered India Patent Agent, licensed to practice Indian law, or a US Patent Attorney and have at least 5 years intellectual property experience in a law firm or an in-house department. Candidates are expected to be self-motivated, able to work independently and demonstrate skills in interviewing engineers, preparing patent specifications and prosecuting patent applications in both domestic and foreign settings.
Contact:
Interested applicants can apply online at: https://jobs.qualcomm.com/public/jobDetails.xhtml?requisitionId=1884987&page=jobSearch.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Large Organization
Job Location: India (Hyderabad, Bangalore, or Chennai)
Associate General Counsel (IP/Business) – Non-Profit – Seattle, Wash.
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation seeks an Associate General Counsel (Intellectual Property/Business focused). "Guidance, Solutions, Integrity" describes the Legal Team's approach to providing responsive legal guidance supporting the implementation of the foundation's strategies. The Legal Team offers creative solutions that accomplish programmatic objectives, develops and implements efficient legal processes to streamline the foundation’s grant making and contracting practices, and applies preventive legal strategies and compliance policies to minimize risks and safeguard the foundation’s reputation.
Responsibilities and Qualifications:
• Structure and negotiate transactions related primarily to life sciences issues, including program related investments (equity, debt, guarantees, etc.), collaborative research agreements, strategic alliances, licensing and other partnering arrangements to promote the research, development, commercialization and supply of products.
• Review and prepare transactional documents, grant agreements, requests for proposals and contracts, providing guidance in developing and implementing intellectual property strategies to accomplish the foundation’s goal of global access (making access to technology available at a reasonable cost in the developing world and promoting broad dissemination of information).
• Provide guidance in the due diligence process to assess business structures and existence of necessary intellectual property rights of potential grantees.
• Provide strategic advice on issues related to collaborations and public/private partnerships, including how best to manage intellectual property to advance the foundation’s goals.
• Train and educate program personnel regarding laws and best practices applicable to business transactions and intellectual property.
• Keep current on new and emerging laws and policy developments impacting tax-exempt organizations generally, and in particular, private foundations.
• Provide support in other legal matters or foundation policies and issues as needed.
Requires Juris Doctor with a minimum of 10 years experience in the practice of law with expertise in business transactions and efforts to establish large and diverse collaborative relationships and public/private partnerships involving complex intellectual property issues.
An undergraduate degree in or other demonstrated familiarity with life sciences or a related field; and experience representing or advising pharmaceutical and bio-technology companies on business transactional and related intellectual property issues strongly preferred.
Contact:
Please visit www.gatesfoundation.org/jobs, requisition 2626BR, for further information and to apply.
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check. It is the policy of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Non-Profit
Job Location: Seattle, Washington
IP Attorney – Non-Profit – Seattle, Wash.
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation seeks two attorneys with an IP focus.* "Guidance, Solutions, Integrity" describes the Legal Team's approach to providing responsive legal guidance supporting the implementation of the foundation's strategies. The Legal Team offers creative solutions that accomplish programmatic objectives, develops and implements efficient legal processes to streamline the foundation’s grant making and contracting practices, and applies preventive legal strategies and compliance policies to minimize risks and safeguard the foundation’s reputation.
Responsibilities and Qualifications:
• Work as part of the Legal Team to provide advice and counsel on a broad range of legal issues critical to the foundation’s mission, including grantmaking in the foundation’s Global Health and/or Global Development programs.
• Review and participate in preparing grant agreements, review proposals, concept notes and contracts, and identify intellectual property issues related to proposed projects.
• Assist in providing guidance in developing and implementing intellectual property guidelines serving the foundation’s goal of global access (making project technology available at no or a reasonable cost in the developing world and promoting broad dissemination of information).
• Evaluate and assist in the negotiation of collaborative research agreements, commercialization and supply arrangements, intellectual property licensing arrangements, and transfer of technology rights.
• Provide guidance in the due diligence process to assess business structures and intellectual property rights of potential grantees.
• Train and educate foundation personnel regarding laws and best practices applicable to private foundations generally as well as IP and other issues that are unique to its Global Health and Global Development programs.
• Keep current on new and emerging laws and policy developments impacting tax-exempt organizations generally and in particular, private foundations.
• Provide support in other grant matters or foundation policies and issues as needed, providing counsel and creative problem solving on a broad range of issues.
Requires Juris Doctor with a minimum of 3 years experience in the practice of law with expertise in intellectual property and business negotiations (including collaborative agreements and licensing arrangements), and experience providing legal advice to clients on intellectual property issues. An undergraduate degree in fields generally related to the foundation’s Global Health and Global Development programs is desirable.
Contact:
Please visit www.gatesfoundation.org/jobs, requisition 2639BR, for further information and to apply.
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check. It is the policy of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Non-Profit
Job Location: Seattle, Washington
*Note that the foundation will be hiring two positions, one for the Global Health and one for the Global Development team.
Patent Attorney – Large Corporation – Saint Louis, Mo.
Sigma-Aldrich, Inc. 
is expanding the patent law department and seeking 2 additional patent attorneys, one with degree and experience in Materials Science / Chemistry and one with a Molecular Biology PhD.
Patent attorney will be involved in proactive counseling of inventors and business units with respect to patent filing and strategies, domestic and foreign patent filing and prosecution, freedom to operate reviews, drafing and negotiation of licenses and other technologically focused contracts, trademark counseling and prosecution, as well as general IP counseling.
Contact:
Requirements vary depending upon the position. Please see our careers website at http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/site-level/career-opportunites.html for full position requirements.
Positions - Req # SIAL00012063 and SIAL00011253
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Large Corporation
Job Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
Patent Attorney – Small Corporation – Cambridge, Mass.
Proteostasis Therapeutics is seeking a Patent Attorney with 5+ years experience in patent prosecution. This individual will work with a variety of cross-functional teams to build and maintain a strong intellectual property portfolio in support of the company’s drug discovery and development efforts. The role will also involve exposure to a broad range of non-patent legal issues arising from our extensive support for a range of academic collaborations and pharmaceutical partnerships. The successful applicant will have a MS or PhD degree in a chemical or biological discipline.
Responsibilities:
• Manage patent assets, including identifying patentable inventions through interactions with project teams, drafting patent applications and responses to PTO correspondence, and determining inventorship
• Conduct periodic patent and scientific literature searches in all
technology areas of the company
• Identify, perform and/or manage patentability and freedom to operate searches, studies and opinions
• Review potential disclosures prior to submission for publication
• Assist with due diligence reviews for licensing efforts
• Negotiate CDA’s, MTA’s, and sponsored research agreements with academic institutions
• Supervise outside counsel; organize and conduct quarterly patent committee meetings
• Educate staff concerning key intellectual property issues
Contact:
Please submit resume and cover letter to: recruiting@proteostasis.com. EOE.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Small Corporation
Job Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc. is the first company dedicated to the discovery of new therapeutics based upon understanding the body’s natural Proteostasis Network. Advances in our ability to characterize and pharmacologically control the Proteostasis Network create new opportunities for ameliorating diseases in a wide number of therapeutic areas. Regulation of the Proteostasis Network is a new approach to drug discovery that will provide the kind of foundational understanding that we have witnessed with other breakthrough treatment paradigms, such as with kinases and G-protein coupled receptors.
Principal Technology Advisor, Licensing – Small Corporation – Ottawa, On.
Pachira 
provides patent owners with licensing programs that generate maximum financial return with minimum risk for its clients involved with semiconductor and electronics engineering for which there is U.S. patent protection.
As a member of our Licensing team, our Principal Technology Advisor will be responsible for the technical support for our client’s patents when developing technology infringement cases. Working closely with our team, this role will continue to provide technical support for any of our clients’ follow-on licensing or litigation programs.
The Challenge
• Review clients’ portfolio of patents and assemble the technical arguments for building infringement cases
• Working closely with the Licensing team, prepare analysis documentation and assist with the presentation to our clients
• Manage relationship with external engineering resources; tracking spend relative to assigned budget
• Prepare and present technical arguments with litigation partners and assist with the ongoing technical support as required
• Track and report on the licensing team’s performance metrics
Your Expertise
• Minimum 10 years experience in an engineering environment, with a Masters or Bachelor degree in Engineering
• Knowledge and experience with a variety of technology areas, including: software, systems, semiconductor or micro-electronics
• Patent Agent or demonstrated experience working with patent litigations and/or licensing
• Proven ability to work with minimum supervision to achieve results
You have strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills coupled with the ability to work in a dynamic team environment. You have a keen interest in many technology areas with a desire to research and learn.
Contact:
Apply by emailing Pachira at: hr@pachira.com.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Small Corporation
Job Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Patent Attorney – Law Firm – Washington, D.C.
Morris & Kamlay LLP 
is an IP specialty firm seeking registered patent attorneys. An ideal candidate has a technology/science background and is local to the Washington D.C. area. We are an innovative law firm and candidates should be comfortable working in a highly interactive and collaborative environment. To learn more about our firm, please see our website at www.morriskamlay.com.
Contact:
Apply by emailing the firm at: careers@morriskamlay.com.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Law Firm
Job Location: Washington, D.C.