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Associate General Counsel, Patents

Facebook

Posted Oct 14

Full TimeRemoteRemote, California

Facebook seeks a highly motivated, team player to serve as an Associate General Counsel, Patents. This position will facilitate freedom to innovate for the Company by shaping our patent portfolio, counseling clients on patent issues, mitigating patent risk, and supporting patent litigation, licensing, and acquisitions. This position will be exposed to diverse technologies and will report to the manager of the Patent Portfolio Strategy team. This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team and work on cutting-edge issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment.

Manage patent portfolio and related activities for multiple product/technology areas, including invention identification and harvesting, invention disclosure meetings, portfolio mining, patent application preparation, and prosecution by outside counsel
Work with legal, product, and engineering teams to identify and protect patentable products, services, and technologies
Understand Facebook’s strategic and competitive position and think at a high level about portfolio strategy
Train, educate, and counsel product and engineering teams in intellectual property matters
Support patent litigation and licensing, as well as patent acquisitions and other IP-related transactions

J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in at least one US state bar
8+ years of legal experience, including at a law firm and/or in-house experience
Knowledge of computer science, electrical engineering or information retrieval, either through undergraduate degree or industry experience
Experience in one or more of the following: identifying patentable technologies, patent analysis, patent acquisition, licensing and/or handling of third party demands

Experience and/or deep familiarity with patent prosecution and/or portfolio development
Experience with software, graphics, graphical user interfaces, social media, mobile apps, networking, and/or wireless technologies
Experience managing service providers and outside counsel
Familiarity with patent litigation or licensing
Interpersonal, leadership, and team skills

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.

Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com

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