Assistant General Counsel, Global Patent Enforcement
vor 17 Stunden
**_This vital role provides an ideal professional environment for a proactive, creative IP litigation lawyer with high levels of autonomy, and an ability to manage challenging, significant matters._**
**Come join us at FMC**
FMC Corporation is a leading specialty company focused on agricultural technologies. We provide innovative and cost-effective solutions to enhance crop yield and quality by controlling a broad spectrum of insects, weeds, and disease.
As a global and diverse organization, we offer our employees exciting opportunities to work on challenging projects that are important to the achievement of our strategic objectives. With a corporate culture of innovation, integrity, responsibility, and customer intimacy, we foster “The Right Chemistry” in everything we do.
**Shape the strategies that help us protect our business**
As the Global Patent Enforcement Counsel of FMC Corporation’s Corporate Law Department, you will have the lead responsibility for setting the global patent enforcement strategies and priorities for the Brand Enforcement team and implement the patent enforcement actions that protects our global patent assets.
This in the context of business priorities and local realities and in closely liaison with FMC teams having critical related roles to Brand Enforcement: Global IP team, regional counsel, global and regional Regulatory, and the Global Brand Protection team/Diamide Enterprise Platform, so that various strategies are effectively coordinated and streamlined at global and regional level.
While not an extensive overview, some of your other tasks include:
- Develop the most effective legal strategies to enforce FMC’s intellectual property in key markets around the world and lead execution of that strategy
- Select and manage a roster of skilled patent litigators in key countries
- Regularly present the brand enforcement strategy and update on case developments and results to corporate senior leaders, investor relations, and commercial teams (particularly in India and China)
- Work with global IP and Brand Protection teams to identify and prioritize potential targets that are potentially or actively infringing FMC’s IP rights, and then enforce those rights to stop the infringing conduct.
- Provide strategic Intellectual Property enforcement advice and support to cross-functional brand protection teams.
- Work with R&D personnel to monitor, investigate and challenge third-party patent developments.
- Set and manage global budgets for patent enforcement litigation and other external resources.
- Actively collaborate in support of trademark strategy, particularly with respect to enforcement.
You will spend around 10% of your time travelling globally.
**Join an international and **professional environment**
You will report to report to the Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary based at our company headquarters in Philadelphia.
You will be part of FMC’s Global Law Department, a dynamic group of experienced lawyers, paralegals, patent agents and other staff who serve as key business partners, counselors and advocates supporting the Company’s operations and growth. FMC’s Law Department has a distinguished record of achieving significant litigation successes around the world, including bringing and winning cases of first impression, in patent, trademark, copyright and regulatory enforcement. You will be part of this winning team and play a critical role maintaining and extending FMC’s agility, creativity and insight to deliver further enforcement successes.
You will be working out of our newly established regional headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland, and will join professional, fast-paced cross-cultural environment and collaborative environment.
**Significant experience in international patent litigation and a technical degree**
You bring significant experience in international patent litigation and pragmatic, business-astute counseling on IP enforcement.
As you will be working in a matrix organization with many different stakeholders, it’s important that you not only work well independently but also have a collaborative way of working.
We also imagine that you:
- A technical degree, preferably advanced, in a chemistry
- or biology-related discipline
- Law degree and admission to practice before a patent office
- A proven track record of serving as a trusted Intellectual Property business advisor, preferably in international settings
- The ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, to address and influence all levels of the organization, and explain how an issue impacts the Company from both a business and legal perspective
- A creative, practical, and hands-on approach to the practice of law
- A business partner, who likes working side-by-side with colleagues inside and outside the Law Department, and lead the team to a high level of performance
**Are you ready to make an impact?**
We look forward to hearing from you
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