Terumo Medical Corporation is looking for a Patent Engineer to provide critical Intellectual Property support for our business divisions. You will work closely with associates across engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and legal to identify and protect the company's innovations through patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
What You'll Do
- Assist in the development and maintenance of the company's intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights.
- Identify and mitigate IP legal risks for new products through freedom to operate searches and analyses, communicating results to stakeholders.
- Conduct and coordinate research into a variety of IP issues.
- Perform analyses of competitors and create patent landscape reports.
- Coordinate and manage the work of outside IP legal counsel for patent and trademark preparation and prosecution.
- Contribute to the development of IP policies and best practices.
- Manage assigned patent and trademark portfolios.
- Facilitate regular meetings with stakeholders to review innovation disclosures, patent portfolios, and other IP matters.
- Assist with preparing and delivering IP training to business associates.
- Lead IP Committee meetings to review innovation disclosures and manage protection strategies.
- Translate complex legal issues like freedom to operate for technical and business stakeholders.
- Develop solutions for freedom to operate challenges, such as design-around options and non-infringement positions.
What We're Looking For
- A four-year college degree in Mechanical, Biomedical, or Electrical Engineering.
- Minimum of six (6) years of engineering experience.
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience in an intellectual property law firm or corporate legal/IP department.
- Experience in preparing and prosecuting US, WO, and EP patent and trademark applications.
- Experience in searching USPTO and EPO databases and other sources of IP data.
- Experience in conducting patentability, freedom to operate, and landscape searches and reporting results to stakeholders.
- Experience in gathering competitive intelligence relating to IP.
Nice to Have
- Registration to practice before the USPTO.
- Medical device experience.
Technical Stack
- Microsoft Office
- Patent database software
Team & Environment
You will work closely with associates in engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing, legal, and other functional areas.
Work Mode
This position follows a hybrid work model.
