Intellectual Property Attorney jobs in Texas

Roles and Responsibilities:  

• Patent Portfolio Management. 

• Manage a global patent docket and work with outside counsel to build and maintain a robust and meaningful patent portfolio.  

• Work with business leaders and technical teams to identify new inventions and patent opportunities.  

• Patent Landscape Work. Monitor third-party patent activity in relevant technology areas. Where appropriate, work with the technical teams to evaluate patents and develop solutions that design around the patented technologies.  

• Open Source. Provide advice and counsel on open source license compliance.  

• Contracts and Agreements. Provide support in contract negotiations with strategic clients and partners. This role will be a member of the legal team that works on development agreements, master services agreements, joint development agreements, and others.  

• Training. Provide IP training to business and technical populations.  

• Project Support. Provide support to product development teams and act as the first point of contact on a variety of product development topics such as data regulations, data privacy, international trade control issues, and others.  

Qualifications and Experience  

• Law degree (JD or equivalent) and member in good standing with at least one state or the District of Columbia Bar.   

• Registered to practice in patent matters before the USPTO.  

• A strong technical background in computer science or computer/electrical engineering is strongly preferred. 

• Four or more years of post-law school patent law experience strongly preferred.  

• Previous in-house experience is preferred.  

• Experience with open source, SaaS software development, machine learning, and IoT is preferred.  

• This position will require some international travel on an occasional basis.  

• Candidates must be able to legally work and reside in the US without sponsorship.