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You will work with the mechanical engineering and design groups, as well as business teams to build and purposefully prosecute the associated worldwide patent portfolio and strategy. This includes ...

You will work with the mechanical engineering and design groups, as well as business teams to build and purposefully prosecute the associated worldwide patent portfolio and strategy. This includes ...

Patent Portfolio Manager

Cupertino, CA · On-site

$204K - $307K/yr

You will work with the mechanical engineering and design groups, as well as business teams to build and purposefully prosecute the associated worldwide patent portfolio and strategy. This includes ...

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Patent surveillance, including monitoring competitor patent portfolio * Identification of ... Contributing to build up a strong Global IP organisation within our global forum 🛠 What You ...

Patent surveillance, including monitoring competitor patent portfolio * Identification of ... Contributing to build up a strong Global IP organisation within our global forum 🛠 What You ...

Patent surveillance, including monitoring competitor patent portfolio * Identification of ... Contributing to build up a strong Global IP organisation within our global forum 🛠 What You ...

Patent surveillance, including monitoring competitor patent portfolio * Identification of ... Contributing to build up a strong Global IP organisation within our global forum 🛠 What You ...

Patent surveillance, including monitoring competitor patent portfolio * Identification of ... Contributing to build up a strong Global IP organisation within our global forum 🛠 What You ...

Patent surveillance, including monitoring competitor patent portfolio * Identification of ... Contributing to build up a strong Global IP organisation within our global forum 🛠 What You ...

Patent surveillance, including monitoring competitor patent portfolio * Identification of ... Contributing to build up a strong Global IP organisation within our global forum 🛠 What You ...

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Patent Portfolio Manager

Cupertino, CA • On-site

Apple
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing • 10K+ employees

Full-time

Re-posted 24 days ago


Apple rating

8.1

Company rating: 8.1 out of 10

Based on 684 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz


Job description

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of quickly becoming great products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.
Do you enjoy taking on bold new challenges? Do you possess a deep knowledge of the legal field and a passion for innovation? We uphold Apple's high ethical and corporate standards, and defend Apple's intellectual property. You'll provide legal support for our world-class products. Working for a company that invents new product categories and creates new industries means you'll be challenged to creatively apply your extensive legal expertise to rare and often unexplored aspects of the law.
Description
We seek to hire a Patent Agent or Patent Attorney to assist in developing and curating the company's hardware and mechanical patent portfolio. You will work with the mechanical engineering and design groups, as well as business teams to build and purposefully prosecute the associated worldwide patent portfolio and strategy. This includes identifying patentable inventions; securing high-quality, strategic patent assets; providing expert technical and legal analysis; handling patent challenges; providing guidance in support of patent transactions and licensing matters; assigning and managing work performed by outside law firms; and working with engineering and other business organizations to understand priorities and challenges. This position also will provide cross-functional support for acquisition due diligence, IP licensing, enforcement, and litigation activities.
Minimum Qualifications
USPTO Registered Patent Agent or Patent Attorney.
BS or higher degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
5+ years of patent-focused work experience drafting and prosecuting patent assets, managing portfolios, developing patent strategies, conducting patent analysis, and providing support for transactions and litigation efforts.
3+ years of work experience patenting primarily mechanical related technologies at a law firm and/or in-house legal department.
Excellent verbal and written communication.
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred candidates will appreciate how mechanical structures integrate with product design and interface with electrical components, including, for example, haptic engines, sensor packaging, acoustic chambers, etc.
Strong technology interest with a curiosity for working with AI tools in patent prosecution related tasks and strategies.
Experience analyzing a variety of mechanical related disciplines, (product design, kinematics, thermal management, material sciences, advanced manufacturing processes).

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Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, intelligent people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same real passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it.

Industry

Computer and electronic product manufacturing

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Cupertino, CA, US

Year founded

1976