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About the Role
The Principal Counsel interprets business issues, recommends best practices, and solves complex Counsel-related problems with minimal guidance. This role requires independent work, potential leadership of functional teams or projects, and deep expertise in Counsel within the Legal function.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain an understanding of the business and technology of assigned business unit(s) and associated patent portfolios.
- Identify and manage Intellectual Property (IP) risks for assigned business units in collaboration with the Senior Director/Chief IP Counsel.
- Negotiate and draft IP-related contracts, including NDAs, technical service agreements, and licenses.
- Review and advise the company on IP-related risks in complex, high-value transactions.
- Lead patent committee meetings for assigned portfolios.
- Exercise control over outside counsel to minimize external costs.
- Assist inventors with writing and submitting invention disclosures.
- Instruct inventors on legal requirements for patentable inventions.
- Advise inventors on data and information needed to increase invention patentability.
- Critically review and evaluate submitted invention disclosures.
- Perform and evaluate patentability searches.
- Provide support for freedom-to-operate assessments and IP enforcement matters.
- Maintain expertise in patent laws/regulations and general knowledge of foreign patent laws.
- Prosecute patent applications and/or manage outside counsel on patent application prosecution.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Chemistry, or similar.
- Advanced science degree desirable.
- Bar registration; registered to practice law.
- 4 to 6 years of law firm experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications and managing global patent portfolios.
- Ability to independently prepare and prosecute patent applications.
- Thorough understanding of Patent Cooperation Treaty patent laws/regulations and good knowledge of at least some foreign patent laws and practices.
- Some experience in drafting IP-related contracts along with a desire to expand upon existing experience.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with business leaders.
- Outstanding analytical skills with a reliable eye for quality and detail.
- Ability to manage priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment with myriad business pressures.
- Ability to think beyond the rules of patent filings and prosecution and focus on the practicalities and context of business needs.
- Ability to work well within a team, taking direction and providing leadership as needed.
Skills
- Intellectual Property (IP) risk management
- Contract negotiation and drafting
- Patent prosecution
- Patentability searches
- Freedom-to-operate assessments
- IP enforcement
- Patent laws and regulations
- Foreign patent laws
- Communication skills
- Analytical skills
- Priority and deadline management
- Teamwork
- Leadership
Experience Level
- 4 to 6 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Chemistry, or similar
- Advanced science degree desirable
- Bar registration
About the Company
- Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.
- For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.