AGC Intellectual Property

Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as embedded IP business partner; attend engineering product roadmap and sales reviews on a recurring cadence. Develop deep technical fluency to engage substantively.
• Drive patent claim strategy designed to read on competitor products and roadmaps; lead competitive teardowns and reverse-engineering with engineering and outside vendors.
• Conduct infringement and FTO analyses; set filing continuation and abandonment strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Identify monetization opportunities: SEP declarations and licensing assertion campaigns defensive cross-licensing and divestiture candidates.
• Triage non-IP legal issues and route to appropriate L&GA SMEs while owning the IP workstream end-to-end.

• Direct and supervise outside counsel on U.S. and foreign drafting filing and prosecution; manage budgets and quality; draft personally for strategically critical inventions.
• Lead invention harvesting; coach inventors; adopt AI tools across invention identification prior art / FTO search drafting and analytics.
• Support patent litigation and pre-litigation matters; lead clearance and FTO for new products and acquisition targets.
• Support IP aspects of commercial agreements (NDAs JDAs supply agreements licenses M&A diligence).

• Primary L&GA point of contact for IP in the PRC: manage CNIPA filings prosecution and outside counsel relationships in China.
• Manage technology-localization decisions for Chinese-developed inventions (PRC-first vs. global filing); structure filings and disclosures to minimize cross-border legal and regulatory friction.
• Coordinate with trade compliance on PRC and U.S. export-control technology-transfer and dual-use considerations.
• Advise on patent-vs.-trade-secret decisions employee/contractor controls and PRC IP assignment practices; support high-technology entity (高新技术企业) status maintenance.
• Conduct IP training invention harvesting workshops and competitive-landscape sessions at PRC sites; travel within the PRC as needed.

• Telecommunications: coherent optical transmission WSS ROADMs and related long-haul / metro network technologies.
• Advanced optics: precision components specialty fiber optical coatings (telecom defense industrial instrumentation).
• Semiconductor optoelectronics: EMLs DMLs VCSELs photodetectors modulators; wafer-level processes epitaxial growth and device packaging.
• Optical transceivers and datacom: 400G / 800G / 1.6T co-packaged optics linear-drive and linear pluggable optics for AI / hyperscale data centers; DSP and driver/TIA electronics where they intersect.

Qualification & Requirements

• Operates as a true business partner not a service provider with strategic mindset on patents as competitive and monetization instruments.
• Advanced verbal and written fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English; able to draft and negotiate in both languages.
• Deep familiarity with PRC IP trade secrets employment and technology-export regulatory environment; pragmatic handling of cross-border IP and tech-transfer.
• Strong outside-counsel and project management across geographies; able to operate independently as on-the-ground L&GA presence in the PRC while staying tightly connected to the global IP function.
• Operates as a true business partner not a service provider with strategic mindset on patents as competitive and monetization instruments.
• Advanced verbal and written fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English; able to draft and negotiate in both languages.
• Deep familiarity with PRC IP trade secrets employment and technology-export regulatory environment; pragmatic handling of cross-border IP and tech-transfer.
• Strong outside-counsel and project management across geographies; able to operate independently as on-the-ground L&GA presence in the PRC while staying tightly connected to the global IP function.

CultureCommitment

Ensure adherence to companys values (ICARE) in all aspects of your positionat Coherent Corp.:

Integrity Create an Environment of Trust

Collaboration Innovate Through the Sharing of Ideas

Accountability Own the Process and the Outcome

Respect Recognize the Value in Everyone

Enthusiasm Find a Sense of Purpose in Work