Intellectual Property Manager

About the role

Dover Precision Components delivers products and services that enhance performance, improve safety, reduce carbon emissions, and accelerate clean energy adoption, through collaborative customer relationships, expert engineering, and an innovative culture. This role provides coordination and leadership for DPC’s intellectual property portfolio through strategic planning, the intellectual property committee, inventors, and legal counsel.

Responsibilities

• Work with key stakeholders to determine whether technology and inventions have commercial applications and recommend intellectual property protection.
• Foster and encourage inventors to produce invention disclosures and guide patenting decisions.
• Initiate and manage patentability, right to use, and state of the art patent searches.
• Liaise with outside counsel to prepare, file, and prosecute patent applications.
• Track progress and organize information pertaining to DPC’s IP portfolio.
• Develop and manage trade secret identification and protection strategies.
• Engage and liaise with marketing team to determine branding strategies.
• Facilitate IP clearances for new products and support development and research teams.
• Lead competitive analysis of patent and commercial product landscapes.
• Manage the internal idea generation program and lead cross-functional technology evaluation and review.
• Coordinate efforts of innovators and legal council through the patenting process.
• Streamline communications between external counsel and other stakeholders.
• Maintain strict document control practices and lead development of IP strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Applied Sciences.
• Experience with IP and legal contractual agreements.
• Experience and knowledge of the patenting process.
• Demonstrated history of working directly with engineers and marketers in translating their concepts into a strategy resulting in solid legal protection.
• Analytical and critical skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical matters.
• Willingness to take ownership, focused on results, and ability to prioritize and manage competing demands.

Qualifications

• Registered Patent Agent in good standing to practice before the USPTO (preferred).
• Advanced degree (preferred).
• Previous industrial experience related to rotating and/or reciprocating machinery (preferred).

Benefits

• 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Health savings account, health care, and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Company paid short-term disability and long-term disability.
• Company paid employee basic life and AD&D insurance.
• Supplemental employee and dependent life insurance.
• Optional accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness insurance.
• Adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits and assistance.
• Commuter benefits.
• Parental, military, jury duty, and bereavement leaves of absence.
• Paid time off, including business travel services.
• Employee discounts.
• Employee assistance program.