Senior Legal Counsel (Intellectual Property)

Join Formlabs as a Senior Legal Counsel specializing in Intellectual Property. In this role, you will own the strategy for our patent portfolio, work closely with R&D and inventors, and have the opportunity to expand your scope beyond IP work. You will be responsible for setting global patent strategy, drafting and prosecuting patent applications, managing outside counsel, and supporting IP litigation. Additionally, you will assist with key manufacturing, vendor, and supplier agreements, as well as other generalist legal matters.

• Strategically manage and enhance the patent portfolio, including setting global patent strategy and determining which patents to maintain or cut.
• Collaborate closely with R&D and inventors to identify and protect patentable inventions, and conduct freedom-to-operate analyses and patentability assessments.
• Provide legal advice on a wide range of issues beyond intellectual property, including corporate, commercial, employment law, and general litigation matters.

• Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, global company where you're juggling more than one live priority at a time
• Undergraduate degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related technical field. You need to be able to read a claim chart and the underlying spec without a translator
• J.D. and admission to at least one state bar, plus registration to practice before the USPTO (patent bar)
• At least 3 years at a top-tier law firm focused on patent work
• While you index on patent work, you’re excited about an expanded scope to learn to operate as a generalist, taking on whatever tasks the business requires. You thrive in an “every day is different” environment, and you enjoy the challenge of figuring out novel problems as they arise
• Deep expertise in U.S. patent law, plus working knowledge of major international patent systems; experience with trademark and trade secret law
• A track record in patent drafting, prosecution, and portfolio management, ideally where you can point to real decisions you made about what to file and what not to file
• Experience with matters before the EPO and CNIPA
• Experience with global copyright law, commercial transactions, and licensing agreements
• Experience with Chinese manufacturing operations
• Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply
• In-house legal experience at a hardware or hard-tech company