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Senior Legal Counsel handling legal agreements and support across multiple jurisdictions in a fintech startup. Collaborating with teams while managing compliance and regulatory matters.
About the role
- Prepare and prosecute patent applications, including drafting, filing, and managing responses to office actions on a global level.
- Provide comprehensive program counseling to various functional areas, ensuring alignment with BMS’s strategic objectives.
- Develop and implement advanced IP strategies to protect BMS’s innovations and support business goals.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration efforts working closely with R&D, regulatory, commercial, and other departments to achieve project milestones.
- Conduct freedom-to-operate analyses and provide strategic counsel on patentability and infringement issues.
- Manage patent portfolios, including conducting patent landscape analyses and developing patent strategies to protect BMS's innovations.
- Provide due diligence support for business development activities, including evaluating IP portfolios of potential partners and acquisition targets.
- Draft and negotiate license and research collaboration agreements.
- Manage relationships with outside counsel to ensure high-quality and cost-effective legal services.
- Regularly engage with business and technical teams to provide IP-related guidance and support.
- Stay updated on changes in patent laws and regulations and ensure compliance with all relevant legal requirements.
Requirements
- Registered to practice before the USPTO.
- A J.D. degree and admission to at least one state bar is preferred.
- 10 or more years of patent law experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in chemistry, biochemistry, or pharmaceutical sciences.
- An advanced degree and/or scientific research experience is preferred.
- Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Service-oriented focus with the ability to work as part of cross-functional teams and drive results.
- Highest integrity, excellent judgment, and the ability to proactively recognize and effectively assess business risk and communicate legal issues to patent, legal, and key stakeholders.
Benefits
- Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care.
- Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP).
- Financial well-being resources and a 401(K).
- Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support.
- Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year’s holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility.
- Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave.
- Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources.
- Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.
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