General Counsel

• Develop creative, business-aligned patent protection and enforcement strategies
• Build and manage global patent portfolios and oversee patent preparation, filing, and prosecution in the United States, Europe, and other key jurisdictions
• Strengthen litigation readiness and lead or support patent disputes with internal teams and external counsel
• Lead global IP dispute strategy and execution, including patent litigation, biosimilar disputes, patent-office challenges and oppositions, and related trade secret or contractual disputes
• Act as strategic IP partner to global project teams responsible for key drug candidates
• Translate complex science and patent issues into recommendations supporting product development, commercialization, and portfolio value
• Identify and protect inventions, assess inventorship, manage public disclosures, and strengthen trade secret protection
• Conduct infringement, validity, freedom-to-operate, and competitive landscape analyses
• Lead patent-related diligence and support licensing, collaborations, partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions
• Review, draft, and negotiate IP provisions and agreements
• Manage external counsel and business partners, align priorities and resources, and deliver portfolio reviews and long-range planning
• Evaluate infringement, validity, enforceability, evidence, and business exposure; develop enforcement, defense, and settlement options
• Direct external counsel in global IP litigations and contested matters; oversee case plans, budgets, discovery, experts, witnesses, and key submissions
• Lead pre-dispute planning and biosimilar readiness, including evidence preservation, legal holds, and witness preparation
• Lead patent strategy for assigned programs, including portfolio development, prosecution, invention and disclosure management, and freedom-to-operate assessment
• Partner with program attorneys to strengthen defensibility and enforcement options across the portfolio
• Pilot approved agent-assisted workflows for dispute monitoring, evidence chronologies, document triage, reference verification, and matter reporting
• Define agent tasks, authoritative inputs, review checkpoints, and escalation rules while maintaining attorney accountability
• Partner with IP operations and technology colleagues to turn pilots into repeatable practices, share learning, and coach colleagues

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