Intellectual Property Counsel

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At SCIEX, one of Danaher?s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives?and we?re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You'll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher?s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact ? innovating at the speed of life.

As part of SCIEX, you will help to influence life changing research and outcomes, while accelerating your potential. For more than 50 years, we have been empowering our customers to solve the most impactful analytical challenges in quantitation and characterization through ground-breaking innovation and outstanding reliability and support. You will be part of a winning team, enabled by DBS, that is passionate about helping life science experts around the world get to answers they can trust.

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The Intellectual Property Counsel position is responsible for protecting SCIEX?s innovations by procuring and managing intellectual property rights of SCIEX and managing freedom to operate thereof.

This position reports to the Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and is part of the Legal Department located in Framingham, MA and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Serves as trusted counsel on all IP issues (with a particular focus on invention mining, patentability, patent prosecution and freedom to operate), locally and globally, by giving solid and practical IP legal advice.
• Aligns IP strategies with business and strategic plans.
• Leads outside counsel in the preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications.
• Negotiates, drafts, and reviews agreements such as licenses, research agreements, collaboration agreements, confidentiality agreements and material transfer agreements.
• Conducts freedom to operate assessments on emerging technology.
• Provides educational presentations and other training on IP matters to Sciex employees.
• Occasional domestic and international travel may be required.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Juris Doctorate with excellent academic credentials from an accredited law school.
• Active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction.
• Admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
• Experience in biology, chemistry, and physics with working knowledge of software. Alternatively, experience in software with working knowledge of life sciences.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in either a law firm or as in-house counsel is required

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• 1 ? 2 years of experience as in-house counsel is preferred.

SCIEX, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it?s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

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Join our winning team today. Together, we?ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow?s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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