Patent Agent/Counsel, Therapeutics IP Team (Small Molecule)

Job description

The Position

Genentech’s Intellectual Property team is seeking a Patent Counsel/Agent with small molecule expertise.  As a partner and business strategist, this individual will push the boundaries of what is possible in a highly competitive industry. This position reports into the Therapeutics IP group in Genentech’s Legal IP team. Come join our passion for creating and leveraging game-changing IP strategies that enable Genentech to “do now what patients need next!” 

The Opportunity

Key responsibilities of this individual contributor role includes the following:

Managing Docket (Patent Preparation and Prosecution)

• Driving strategic IP procurement and management of global intellectual property rights for individual small molecule (biopharmaceutical) candidates and products, including drafting and prosecuting patent portfolios, licensing transactions, due diligence assessments, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and validity analyses, and risk evaluation and mitigation strategies.

• Managing and prosecuting active global dockets, including handling U.S. and foreign patent applications as well as post-grant proceedings (e.g., reexamination, reissue, post-grant review), including foreign oppositions and appeals, as they may arise.

• Rendering due diligence assessments, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and validity analyses, and risk evaluation and mitigation strategies for individual program molecules, technologies, tools, and the like.

• Identifying and exploiting new strategic opportunities and approaches by leveraging a deep understanding of patent law and a knowledge of the competitive landscape across the Genentech franchises and portfolio.

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