Patent Agent

• Partner with R&D, manufacturing, and business and legal stakeholders to develop and execute strategies to protect and perfect Cepheid’s intellectual property
• Integrate with R&D teams to learn molecular diagnostic technologies and manufacturing processes
• Identify key IP opportunities and enable innovative protection strategies
• Draft and prosecute patent applications in molecular diagnostics, biochemistry, and related areas
• Conduct freedom-to-operate studies, including infringement and validity analyses
• Advise internal stakeholders
• Provide IP diligence for M&A and related activities
• Direct outside counsel on global patent filing and prosecution matters
• Prepare and present training materials on invention disclosure, trade secret protection, and intellectual property protection
• Manage and/or participate in projects impacting Cepheid as a whole
• Report to the Deputy Chief IP Counsel as part of the legal department and IP team

Senior 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.