Associate General Counsel, Patent Prosecution
4 days ago
Walthamstow
Company Description\n AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and TikTok. \nJob Description\n AbbVie is searching for an in-house Associate General Counsel for our Patent Prosecution group, part of AbbVie’s Intellectual Property, Transactions, and Innovation legal team. This position will support AbbVie’s pharmaceutical products and be based in our offices in North Chicago, IL, Waltham, MA, South San Francisco, CA, or Irvine, CA with a hybrid work model (onsite 3+ days/week). \n Acting individually and in cross-functional teams, the Associate General Counsel will develop and implement intellectual property strategies for AbbVie’s products and product candidates. \n Responsibilities: \n\n • Maximize AbbVie’s competitive position through creation and implementation of intellectual property strategies\n, • Provide legal advice and counsel to cross-functional R&D and business teams on a variety of IP-related matters\n, • Draft, file, and prosecute strategically useful patent applications worldwide both directly and through management of outside counsel\n, • Challenge and defend patents in IPR, opposition, interference, and other post-grant proceedings\n, • JD degree from an accredited law school, state bar admission enabling in-house practice (specific state not required), and registration to practice before the USPTO\n, • 8+ years of experience practicing patent law as an attorney or patent agent at a law firm and/or life sciences company, including substantial U.S. and foreign patent prosecution\n \n, • Experience with India, China, and emerging markets a plus\n\n\n, • Technical background relevant for pharmaceutical patent prosecution, such as:\n \n, • Experience with small molecule and/or biological pharmaceutical discovery & development, and/or\n, • Technical degree in relevant field, such as molecular biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, chemical engineering, or biomedical engineering\n\n\n, • Strong legal, analytical, communication, collaboration, and people skills\n, • \n The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.\n \n, • \n We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.\n \n