Description:

The Role:
An Enterprise Security Company is looking for an experienced IP (intellectual property) attorney to join the Technology Products Group (TPG) within the legal department. TPG addresses a variety of legal needs across Proofpoint including those of all the product development teams globally, with a collaborative and business-oriented approach.

Your Day-to-Day:

The Counsel/Senior Counsel, IP will report to the Director of IP, and will work with cross-functional teams, technical staff and outside counsel to build a sound intellectual property portfolio.
The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for patent portfolio building and management including:
Driving new innovation disclosure submissions and evaluations
Providing guidance to outside counsel on all aspects of on-going patent prosecution
Preparing initial drafts of original application filings, provisional filings, office action responses and continuation claim sets for a portion of the portfolio (to reduce outside counsel costs)
Facilitating and driving communications between outside patent counsel and inventors
Assuring patent claim construction aligns with business purpose and product relevance at the patent application drafting stage and throughout prosecution
Providing input to office actions for U.S. and foreign patent filings
Providing input from a legal and business perspective on filing decisions
Planning and directing intellectual property committee meetings in close collaboration with other IP and technical staff
Conducting educational meetings and idea harvesting meetings with R&D/product development teams
Assisting and advising fellow legal team members on IP and product matters
Assisting with IP dispute/litigation analysis and discovery
Software and IP licensing in various contexts (e.g. commercial, collaboration, and dispute resolution) is a plus
Some IP Litigation experience is a plus
Some experience with open-source software usage and contribution is a plus

What You Bring to the Team:

5 + years of experience
Good standing with a state bar
Member of U.S. patent bar
Technical and/or legal background in software, artificial intelligence/machine learning, email security and/or cloud security.