Patent Agent - JMCRS

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    list of duties. Could combine all bullet points. We need to preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to extract each duty as separate bullet. Let's extract duties: From "Client & Portfolio Strategy": - Strong client interface, collaboration, and strategic portfolio consulting skills. - Partner closely with research teams and cross-functionally (e.g., research, business development) to provide strategic, proactive, and practical guidance regarding intellectual property opportunities, strategies, and risk. - Present and engaged in technology reviews. - Support day-to-day IP needs across JAX Mouse Clinical Research Services (JMCRS) across a variety of scientific disciplines. - Keep a pulse on workstreams, collaborations, and publications. - Strong awareness of timing (when to disclose, file, publish, engage third parties, etc.). - Able to identify issues and engage stakeholders when relevant. From "Demonstrated ability in setting IP portfolio strategy and implementing through effective patent drafting and prosecution." (maybe part of responsibilities) - Advise and actively manage strategy, drafting, prosecution, and maintenance of patent matters (both directly and with outside counsel). - Support regular portfolio review sessions and occasionally prune the portfolio to align with organizational initiatives. From "Disclosure, Drafting & Prosecution": - Assist in the review of invention disclosures and patent landscape searches. - Able to weigh pros/cons of the various forms of IP protection with organizational goals in light of the overarching landscape. - Influence and engage inventors on their support and collaboration in pursuit of the recommended IP protection strategy/approach. - Collaborate with inventors to gather and provide appropriate guidance on technical details, drawings, and experimental data to deliver optimal patent protection. - Familiarity with stage-gate, product development processes. - Translating IP needs to actionable feedback for product/business development teams. - Identify white space, underutilized capabilities, and risks. From "Search & Risk Analysis": - Conduct patent searches for prior art, patentability, clearance, and freedom-to-operate analyses, both directly and through management of outside counsel, for new products and support to development teams. From "Compliance, Reporting & Culture": - Provide Sponsored Research Administration with patent filing data for annual progress reports, renewal applications, award closeouts, and final invention statements reported in iEdison under the Bayh-Dole Act. - Report inventions and patents that have resulted from federally funded research grants/contracts to the funding agency via iEdison. - Support IP enforcement initiatives and organizational compliance programs to ensure IP rights are respected within JAX and externally. - Strong attention to detail, organizational, writing, and project management skills. - Provide educational presentations and other training on IP matters to JAX employees to build an IP savvy culture. - Reports to the Chief IP Counsel. - Occasional domestic travel may be required. We also have "Location & Schedule" and "Pay Range". Those are separate sections. Now Requirements: "Registered to practice before the USPTO. At least 3 years of experience as a patent agent, in-house or at an IP law firm, supporting global IP matters related to prosecution (filing and securing patents) in a field(s) related to life science and/or data science." Preferred: MS or PhD in life and/or data science. Considered: BS in life sciences such as genetics, molecular or cell biology, immunology, cell physiology/biophysics, biochemistry, data, or a comparable life data science field, with at least 4 years applicable prior research and/or product development experience. We need to decide sections: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. The posting lumps requirements and preferred/considered. We could put Requirements as mandatory: Registered to practice before USPTO; at least 3 years experience as patent agent supporting global IP matters related to prosecution in life science/data science. Qualifications could be preferred/considered: MS or PhD in life/data science; BS in life sciences with 4 years experience. Skills: maybe list skills like strong client interface, collaboration, strategic portfolio consulting, etc. But those are already in responsibilities. However we could still create a Skills section if there is explicit skill list. The posting mentions: "Strong client interface, collaboration, and strategic portfolio consulting skills." "Excellent communicator, comfortable conducting oral presentations." "Ability to work independently." "Exhibits intellectual curiosity." "Strong attention to detail, organizational, writing, and project management skills." Those could be skills. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps combine Skills into Responsibilities? However instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Pay, Schedule. Skills maybe not needed if covered elsewhere. Benefits not mentioned. So we omit Benefits. Pay: we have Pay Range: $106,020 - $153,729 based on total years of related experience. Schedule: hybrid position (2–3 days/week), based in Bar Harbor, ME; Farmington, CT; or New York, NY. Location maybe part of Schedule? Could be separate but we only have Schedule heading allowed. We'll include location inside Schedule paragraph. Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO statement, About JAX (maybe could be About the role? Actually About JAX is company description; not required but could be part of About the role? The instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. About JAX is substantive but not about the role. However we have no heading for About the company; only allowed headings are those listed. Could we put About JAX under About the role? Might be mixing. Better to omit About JAX as it's not a required heading; we could drop it because we don't have a heading for it. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. If we omit About JAX, we lose substantive info. But we could incorporate it into About the role? Not ideal but maybe acceptable because we need to preserve info. However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We could add a section "About JAX" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings list is examples; maybe we can use other headings if they exist? The instruction: "Use

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    About the role

    Job Summary: Tasked with safeguarding the intangible assets of JAX, the Patent Agent – JMCRS will identify, capture, maintain, and protect intellectual property rights. This is a unique opportunity to substantially leverage client and strategic portfolio management skills while building and streamlining IP processes to drive efficiencies. The role is crucial to helping researchers navigate complex intellectual property landscapes and develop strategies to secure and enforce IP rights of The Jackson Laboratory that align with organizational goals and maximize value. A strong candidate can demonstrate the ability to apply scientific expertise together with commercial and legal considerations to support short- and long-term objectives. Both approachable and proactive with clients. Excellent communicator, comfortable conducting oral presentations. Ability to work independently. Exhibits intellectual curiosity. The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and nearly 3,000 employees in locations across the United States (Maine, Connecticut, California), Japan and China. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health. Founded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease. It models and interprets genomic complexity, integrates basic research with clinical application, educates current and future scientists, and provides critical data, tools and services to the global biomedical community.

    Responsibilities

    • Strong client interface, collaboration, and strategic portfolio consulting skills.
    • Partner closely with research teams and cross-functionally (e.g., research, business development) to provide strategic, proactive, and practical guidance regarding intellectual property opportunities, strategies, and risk.
    • Present and engaged in technology reviews.
    • Support day-to-day IP needs across JAX Mouse Clinical Research Services (JMCRS) across a variety of scientific disciplines.
    • Keep a pulse on workstreams, collaborations, and publications.
    • Strong awareness of timing (when to disclose, file, publish, engage third parties, etc.).
    • Able to identify issues and engage stakeholders when relevant.
    • Demonstrated ability in setting IP portfolio strategy and implementing through effective patent drafting and prosecution.
    • Advise and actively manage strategy, drafting, prosecution, and maintenance of patent matters (both directly and with outside counsel).
    • Support regular portfolio review sessions and occasionally prune the portfolio to align with organizational initiatives.
    • Assist in the review of invention disclosures and patent landscape searches.
    • Able to weigh pros/cons of the various forms of IP protection with organizational goals in light of the overarching landscape.
    • Influence and engage inventors on their support and collaboration in pursuit of the recommended IP protection strategy/approach.
    • Collaborate with inventors to gather and provide appropriate guidance on technical details, drawings, and experimental data to deliver optimal patent protection.
    • Familiarity with stage-gate, product development processes.
    • Translating IP needs to actionable feedback for product/business development teams.
    • Identify white space, underutilized capabilities, and risks.
    • Conduct patent searches for prior art, patentability, clearance, and freedom-to-operate analyses, both directly and through management of outside counsel, for new products and support to development teams.
    • Provide Sponsored Research Administration with patent filing data for annual progress reports, renewal applications, award closeouts, and final invention statements reported in iEdison under the Bayh-Dole Act.
    • Report inventions and patents that have resulted from federally funded research grants/contracts to the funding agency via iEdison.
    • Support IP enforcement initiatives and organizational compliance programs to ensure IP rights are respected within JAX and externally.
    • Strong attention