Senior Legal Counsel supporting U.S. renewable energy platform with legal advisory and contract negotiations. Overseeing compliance, governance, and operational legal functions in a hybrid work environment.
About the role
- Patent Attorney delivering strategic legal counsel and operational support for British American Tobacco. Managing patent risks, opportunities, and ensuring compliance in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Delivering strategic patent counsel and operational support
- Advising on risks and opportunities
- Managing invention harvesting and prosecution activities
- Providing high-quality, solution-oriented guidance to maximise commercial value while ensuring legal compliance and mitigating business risk
- Providing robust legal advice to facilitate business and protect the Group's interests by identifying, communicating and managing potential patent risks/opportunities
- Advising end markets, Marketing, R&D, Ops and other key functions on potential patent risks/opportunities
- Working collaboratively with stakeholders to put in place mitigation/follow-up plans
- Establishing and maintaining a strong and sustainable patent portfolio
- Undertaking all invention mining/harvesting and patent drafting activities
- Implementing filing strategies to maximise competitive advantage from key innovations
- Contributing to generation and maintenance of patent filing lists
- Implementing prosecution strategies
Requirements
- Previous experience of identifying, communicating and effectively managing potential risks presented by third party patents
- Executing innovative, pragmatic, cost effective filing and prosecution strategies
- Commercially astute with a clear understanding of FMCG businesses
- Detailed knowledge and practical experience of patent laws and working knowledge of related laws including trademark, copyright, designs, competition, contract, commercial and data protection laws
- Ability to assess IP clauses in commercial agreements, including licences, settlement agreements, assignments, with considerable attention to detail, accuracy and consequences
- Professionally qualified as either a European or national patent attorney with up to 5 years’ post qualification experience in the Patents field (in any of the mechanical, electrical engineering or chemical fields), including drafting, prosecution, FTO, agreement, contentious and non-contentious matters
Benefits
- Market leading annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility)
- Diverse health plans
- Initiatives for work-life balance
- Transportation support
- Flexible holiday plan with additional incentives
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