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Salary: USD 286,300 - 367,000 / annual
Altos Labs is seeking a Senior Patent Counsel or Director of Intellectual Property to join its legal department in San Diego. The company's mission is to restore cell health and resilience through cell rejuvenation to reverse disease, injury, and disabilities.
In this role, you will create and manage global patent portfolios protecting groundbreaking innovations in cellular programming, computational biology, and novel transformative therapeutics. You will report to the Vice President of IP.
Key responsibilities include:
- Prepare, prosecute, and maintain global patent portfolios for various therapeutic modalities including small molecules, large molecules, and gene therapy
- Draft and file patent applications, manage patent office actions (inter partes reviews, reexaminations, post grant reviews, oppositions)
- Identify and evaluate data for patentability and invention capture
- Conduct due diligence assessments and provide actionable advice
- Counsel business stakeholders on freedom to operate analyses, patentability, and global regulatory exclusivities
- Advise on trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks
- Review, draft, and negotiate IP terms with the transactional legal team
- Identify, assess, and communicate IP risks to stakeholders
- Develop partnerships across business, legal, and compliance functions
- Maintain current knowledge of IP case law and emerging industry trends
- Manage outside counsel work product and budget
The ideal candidate demonstrates high integrity, comfort with ambiguity, bias to action, courage in smart risk-taking, and strong teamwork and collaboration skills. You will thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced biotech environment where you can think strategically about emerging science and legal precedents.
Requirements:
- PhD in Chemistry or related science
- Registered before United States Patent and Trademark Office (required)
- If lawyer: Juris Doctorate from ABA-accredited law school and admitted to California Bar or ability to qualify as Registered In-House Counsel
- 7+ years (or 12+ years preferred) of experience as patent prosecutor, ideally including both law firm and industry experience
- Experience in global pharmaceutical drug development and commercialization (required)
