Director, Senior IP counsel
About the role
BeOne continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer. BeOne Medicines is a rapidly growing, global, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative molecularly targeted and immuno-oncology drugs for the treatment of cancer. Likewise, BeOne Medicines’ Legal and Compliance is building a team based on excellence, collaboration, and ongoing development to support BeOne Medicines’ mission. We are seeking an experienced IP counsel to join our growing in-house IP legal team to serve as a senior IP counsel in our Biologics IP team and support BeOne Medicines’ R&D, business development, and commercialization efforts as we further our vision to develop and commercialize molecularly targeted and immuno-oncology cancer therapeutics.
- Fosters Teamwork
- Provides and Solicits Honest and Actionable Feedback
- Self-Awareness
- Acts Inclusively
- Demonstrates Initiative
- Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Continuous Learning
- Embraces Change
- Results-Oriented
- Analytical Thinking/Data Analysis
- Financial Excellence
- Communicates with Clarity
Responsibilities
- Primarily focuses on building and maintain a strong intellectual property portfolio to support the Company’s R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization efforts on biologics products.
- Serve as a strategic partner for the Company’s senior leaders in discovery, research, manufacturing, and development on patent, regulatory data exclusivity, trademark, and other intellectual property issues.
- Support corporate development, business development and research collaborations, including due diligence assessments, advise on contract drafting and negotiation, and alliance management.
- Monitor patent trends and case law developments in the US and major markets and adjust IP strategies; advocate positions important to BeOne Medicines in matters concerning IP government and regulatory policy.
- Conduct patent and prior art search, competitive landscape analysis, patentability, and freedom to operate analysis.
- Review draft publications and presentations.
- Provide litigation support, including validity and non