Patent Agent

• Identify, capture, maintain, and protect JAX intellectual property rights.
• Build and streamline IP processes to drive efficiencies.
• Help researchers navigate complex intellectual property landscapes and develop strategies to secure and enforce IP rights.
• Partner with research teams and cross-functionally to provide strategic, proactive, and practical guidance regarding IP opportunities, strategies, and risk.
• Support day-to-day IP needs across JAX Mouse Clinical Research Services across varied scientific disciplines.
• Advise and actively manage patent strategy, drafting, prosecution, and maintenance, directly and with outside counsel.
• Support portfolio review sessions and occasionally prune the portfolio to align with organizational initiatives.
• Review invention disclosures and patent landscape searches.
• Collaborate with inventors on technical details, drawings, and experimental data for patent protection.
• Translate IP needs into actionable feedback for product and business development teams.
• Conduct patent searches for prior art, patentability, clearance, and freedom-to-operate analyses.
• Provide Sponsored Research Administration with patent filing data for reports, renewal applications, award closeouts, and final invention statements in iEdison under the Bayh-Dole Act.
• Report federally funded research inventions and patents to funding agencies via iEdison.
• Support IP enforcement initiatives and organizational compliance programs.
• Provide educational presentations and IP training to JAX employees.
• Report to the Chief IP Counsel.