Job Title: Legal Innovation Counsel

Job ID: LGL00000379Job: Legal
Schedule: Full-time
Location:US-Massachusetts-Boston

Description

The Innovation (IP) counsel plays a vital role in protecting P&G's international investment in intellectual property.  As an Innovation counsel with P&G, your duties would include:

• Filing and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and around the world
• Dealing with freedom-to-practice and intellectual property validity issues
• Developing intellectual property protection strategies utilizing multiple forms of IP (e.g. patent, design, trademark)
• Counseling clients on intellectual property, trade secret and antitrust matters
• Participating with outside trial counsel in intellectual property litigation
• Negotiating a broad spectrum of agreements, including licensing agreements
• Appellate practice before the Patent Office Board of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Clearing new trademarks for use and registration globally and locally and handling the trademark and copyright aspects of acquisitions and divestitures, internet and e-commerce and trademark licensing

Qualifications

 All applicants must have:

• Previous experience as an IP attorney, with approximately 2-5 years of experience preferred
• A Juris Doctorate or other non-US Juris Doctorate equivalent

All of our innovation/IP attorneys have excellent law school records from a cross-section of leading law schools from across the country.  Attorneys who work in the area of patent preparation and prosecution are required to have a technical undergraduate background (i.e. science and engineering) in order to practice patent law.  In addition, our innovation/IP attorneys are required to take and pass a state bar exam and the U.S. Patent Registration exam within the first year of employment.  We place special emphasis on written and oral communication skills.  We also look for well-rounded men and women with an abundance of those elusive and intangible qualities such as leadership, vision, and energy.

 

 

P&G is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  No immigration sponsorship is available for this position.  P&G does not sponsor candidates for permanent residency except in some areas that in P&G's sole discretion require highly specialized backgrounds.

 

P&G participates in e-verify as required by law.

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