Senior Patent Counsel

The role

This person will support intellectual property across research, preclinical, clinical, and collaboration activities. They will partner with R&D and platform teams to identify inventions and manage a global patent estate.

What you will do

• Partner with R&D and platform teams to identify inventions and recommend protection strategies.
• Work with outside counsel to draft, file, and prosecute patent applications.
• Manage day-to-day patent portfolio matters, including prosecution strategy, deadlines, and docketing.
• Conduct or coordinate patentability, freedom-to-operate, and landscape analyses.
• Support IP aspects of collaborations, licenses, sponsored research, and vendor agreements.
• Review proposed publications, presentations, and external disclosures for patent considerations.
• Educate and advise scientists and senior management about key IP principles and processes.
• Monitor legal developments that may affect patent strategy.

Required qualifications

• JD from a reputable law school
• Admission in good standing to at least one state bar
• Admission to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Minimum 5–8 years of patent law experience involving biotechnology inventions
• Direct experience with preparing and prosecuting patent applications
• Direct experience managing global patent portfolios
• Direct experience performing freedom-to-operate, patentability, and landscape analyses in the field of biologic therapeutics
• IP transaction experience including due diligence and IP-related agreements
• Experience managing outside counsel and related budgets
• Excellent analytical, writing, and communication skills

Nice to have

• Mix of significant in-house experience and law firm experience
• Experience with artificial intelligence technologies
• Advanced degree (e.g., MS or PhD) in biology, biochemistry, or similar field
• Experience with U.S. and/or foreign adversarial proceedings

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation
• Competitive benefits package

About the company

Generate Biomedicines is a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in drug design and development. Founded in 2018, the company integrates machine learning with large-scale experimentation to design proteins with defined biological intent.