Patent & Trademark Agent/Attorney

Classification: Full Time Compensation: $100000 to $125000 per year Stable and respected Dublin / Pleasanton Biotech firm is seeking an experienced Patent Agent or Patent Attorney to join the team!Essential Duties and Responsibilities•Review and identify in-house inventions and processes that may form the basis for IP rights•Recommend, interpret, and develop goals and strategies to optimize the short- and long-term value of company's intellectual product portfolio
•Draft parts of patent and trademark applications for outside counsel
•Conduct and evaluate prior art searches•Review, draft and recommend responses to office actions
•Draft, review, and recommend filing in foreign countries
•Review, track and recommend for approval of scientific publications, product documents and press releases
•Monitor and review competitors' IP
•Draft and negotiate IP provisions in contracts, protecting the company's proprietary products and technology
•Maintain the patent and trademark databases from invention disclosures, to filing, to application status and due dates for IP rights for both owned and licensed matters
•Perform other IP duties as requested by the Sr. DirectorEducationAdmitted to the patent bar and MS/Ph.D. in sciences are required; an advanced degree in synthetic organic chemistry preferred; a JD is desirable.Experience5+ of experience in IP strategy development and implementation and IP prosecution in small organic molecule pharmaceuticals, formulations and/or bioinformatics.
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