Chief IP Counsel - Small Corporation - Bellevue, Wash.
By Dennis Crouch
ADVERTISEMENTS
div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"pa href="http://intven.com/"img border="0" src="http://www.patentlyo.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/14/logo.jpg" title="Invention Law Group" alt="Invention Law Group" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" //a
a href="http://intven.com/"Invention Law Group, PLLC/a is looking for a Chief IP Counsel for our
Licensing team in Bellevue, Washington. We are looking for an
individual who loves fast-paced business action, is detail-oriented,
independently motivated, and has the confidence and ability to interact
with clients and co-workers in a professional, approachable, and
positive style./p
p
Intellectual Ventures (?IV?) is a privately-held, invention investment
company based in Bellevue, Washington. Our business model centers on
creating, acquiring and licensing invention in a variety of technology
areas.nbsp; We plan to commercialize inventions through licensing,
spin-offs, joint ventures and partnerships./p
p
strongResponsibilities/strong:br /
The Chief IP Counsel will serve as a key member of IV?s senior management team andbr /
report directly to the General Counsel. Working closely with business
managers and senior executives, the Chief IP Counsel will lead a team
of senior patent licensing attorneys and be involved in all aspects of
developing and implementing business and legal strategy, team
leadership and people development, negotiating licenses and
settlements, selection and management of outside counsel, and
litigation./p
p
Supplanted by a team of licensing attorneys, the Chief IP Counsel will:/p
p? Provide legal, business and strategic advice related to all aspects of IV?s intellectual property portfolio.br /
? Develop and implement strategies to enhance IV?s technological and competitive position.br /
? Guide overall portfolio development for future licensing and enforcement.br /
? Partner with licensing executives to develop licensing strategy within and across vertical business units.br /
? Provide guidance in negotiation of various outbound patent license agreements.br /
? Provide guidance to patent prosecution team.br /
? Provide direction to and effectively manage relationships with multiple outside counsel in all of the above./p
p
strongRequirements/strong:br /
An ideal candidate will be an experienced leader, with a combination of
in-house and private practice experience, strong patent licensing
experience, and a broad technology background, with the following
attributes:/p
p
? Minimum 10 years patent law experience with 3+ years recent experience in IP licensing (preferably patent licensing).br /
? Technical background and understanding sufficient to quickly
learn and assimilate IV?s technologies as well as new technologies.br /
? A proven track record leading senior attorneys to achieve their goals.br /
? Expert knowledge of principles, practices, case law and state of the art patent licensing.br /
? Skillful with business management, team leadership, deal
making, strategic sales/licensing approaches, and a broad-based
understanding of IP protection strategies and patent licensing business.br /
? Broad technical knowledge.br /
? A multi-dimensional thinker who operates not only on the basis
of important past experiences, but incorporates new approaches and
developments that occur in market.br /
? Able to establish credibility quickly and act with the
authority gained through experience. Have sufficient presence and
expertise to impact the business in a powerful way; have a ?can do?
attitude, and ability to rally a team around a common vision.br /
? Have the capacity to isolate and prioritize issues for his/her
team and to help focus on implementing both top-level, strategic
solutions as well as the day-to-day tactics necessary for winning in
the marketplace.br /
? Highly intelligent, decisive, creative and displays courage of his/her convictions.br /
? A champion of ideas who accepts disagreement with maturity and with the good of the business at heart.br /
? Ability to work well with others and to quickly assimilate and
understand information (including highly technical information)br /
? Excellent negotiation and contract drafting skillsbr /? J.D., Law degreebr /
strongbr /Contact/strong:br /
Please apply directly to: a href="http://www.intellectualventures.com/" target="_blank"http://www.wbr/wbrintellectualventures.com/a. We are an equal opportunity employer/p
pstrongAdditional Info/strong:br /Employer Type: Small Corporationbr /
Job Location: Bellevue, Washington/p
/div
div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/PatentLawJobs?a=jNLq4er4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/PatentLawJobs?d=41" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PatentLawJobs/~4/erKnW551qnI" height="1" width="1"/
