Associate Counsel - Intellectual Property

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

• Effectively handles assigned legal activities for business units, functions, or legal practice areas
• Supports projects and teams, providing legal support and solutions to the company's business units or corporate departments
• Collaborates with scientists, engineers and researchers, and technical directors – Discusses new products, product innovation and improvements, and trade secrets
• Provides focused and practical legal advice on patents, trade secrets and related intellectual property issues to multiple research and development groups, and assistance with intellectual property issues in global markets
• Provides Proactive guidance – Stays abreast of new regulations and emerging legal risks; provides proactive advice and counsel to business units and corporate functions that may be impacted
• Substantiates positions – Researches, develops, and coordinates implementation of legal solutions
• Mitigates risk – Identifies and analyzes existing and emerging legal risks
• Develops and implements business-focused strategies to manage risks
• Ensures Compliance – Assists the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and control mechanisms to promote intellectual property compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations
• Conducts IP education/training and support for marketing, sales, R&D, and other departments
• Develops understanding of the operational model by which the supported business unit or enterprise-wide function operates
• Supports clients on a cost-effective basis
• Manages outside counsel in an efficient and cost-effective manner, as necessary
• Engages, communicates, and advises mid-management and operational business level of such clients
• Develops understanding of how legal support affects objectives, risks, and returns of business clients
• Provides work direction or review the work of individual contributor level support staff (paralegals, admins, fellows, law clerks, etc.)

Qualifications

• Must have a Juris Doctor
• Must have a license to practice law in Ohio
• Must have a license to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Must have an undergraduate degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, polymer science, or materials science
• Strong work ethic combined with diligence and the ability to act independently and adapt to changing priorities
• Demonstrated experience clearly articulating complex legal concepts to a lay audience
• 2-5 years of legal experience including patent application drafting, patent prosecution, and searching
• PC skills; Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); and other applications
• General working knowledge of legal software
• Must have the legal right to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship now or in the future for employment visa status
• Must be at least 18 years of age