Responsibilities:
• Interact closely with research labs to provide support and guidance on IP issues
• Conduct prior art searches for related technologies and counsel infringement, validity, and freedom to operate opinions based on such search results
• Understand strategic business value, market dynamics and competing products, follow development of alternative technologies, and identify targeted consumer segments for a wide-range of research initiatives and to procure invention disclosures
• Collaborate with outside counsel to support patent prosecution
• Examine and review pending applications and issued patents, conduct claim analysis, and identify potential infringement
• Maintain a substantial and active prosecution docket of U.S. and foreign patent applications
Qualifications:
• J.D. from an ABA accredited law school
• Member of California Bar
• Registered to practice before the USPTO
• At least 7 years of patent prosecution and litigation or litigation support experiences
• Experienced in identifying product infringements and mapping claims of pending applications
• Experienced in analyzing components, products, software, technology
roadmaps, and its convergence to develop relevant patent strategies and
practices
• BS and higher education preferred in Consumer Electronics Industrial
Design, User Interface/User Experience, Computer Engineering, Computer
Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering and/or Multimedia
Communications/Networking/Architectures/Signal
Processing and related fields
• Work experience in Consumer Electronics Software/User Interface/User
Experience Industrial Design and/or Cloud Computing/Multimedia Content
Network System Architecture is a plus
• Experience and understanding of the litigation implications on the
quality of successfully prosecuted patents for a market-leading
information technology corporation
• In-house experience with mid-size or larger corporations is a plus
• Experienced in supporting and working directly with inventors and
senior research and development engineers, and identifying patentable
inventions from research materials
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Must be a team player
Contact:
Please apply by sending an email to: sanjosepatentattorney@gmail.com.
Additional Info:
Employer Type: Large Corporation
Job Location: San Jose, California
