Patent Litigation Associate

• Substantive patent litigation experience at a strong law firm

Education

• J.D. from T1-T50 or strong national law school
• STEM degree; CS/EE preferred

Hard Skills

• Strong legal writing

Location

• Local to or willing to relocate to target office

Seniority

• 26 years of patent litigation experience (Classes )

Experience

• District court ITC or PTAB patent litigation
• Claim construction discovery and motion practice

Education

• Strong law school grades

Technical

• Deep technical fluency in CS EE or life sciences

Soft Skills

• Self-directed; thrives with minimal supervision
• Entrepreneurial; comfortable with free-market staffing

Bar

• Active or waivable bar admission in target state

Experience

• Trial team or deposition experience
• Pharma/Hatch-Waxman litigation

Education

• Advanced STEM degree (M.S. or Ph.D.)

Credentials

• USPTO registration

Advocacy

• Strong oral advocacy/trial presence

Traits to avoid

• Needs heavy structure central staffing or mentorship
• Demands full remote or work-from-anywhere arrangement
• Prosecution-only background with no litigation experience

Salary

• $225K - $435K

T1T15

Stanford Yale University of Chicago Penn Carey University of Virginia Harvard Duke NYU Columbia Northwestern University of Michigan Vanderbilt Cornell UCLA Washington University in St. Louis

UC Berkeley University of Texas at Austin Georgetown UNCChapel Hill Boston College Notre Dame Texas A&M University of Minnesota Boston University BYU George Washington University of Georgia USC Gould University of WisconsinMadison Ohio State Wake Forest

George Mason (Scalia) University of Iowa Baylor Florida State UC Irvine University of Florida Washington and Lee William & Mary Emory University of Alabama Fordham SMU Arizona State University of Utah Pepperdine University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Kansas Indiana University Bloomington Temple Villanova

Highest-priority patent litigation targets:
Fish & Richardson Finnegan Kirkland & Ellis Morrison Foerster Cooley WilmerHale Latham & Watkins Irell & Manella Wilson Sonsini Gibson Dunn Sidley Austin Jones Day Perkins Coie Baker Botts Covington & Burling Arnold & Porter Paul Weiss Skadden Ropes & Gray Goodwin Orrick Fenwick & West Hogan Lovells DLA Piper Mayer Brown McDermott Will & Schulte Morgan Lewis Reed Smith Winston & Strawn Weil Gotshal White & Case A&O Shearman King & Spalding Alston & Bird Kilpatrick Townsend Foley & Lardner Troutman Pepper Locke Mintz Sterne Kessler Knobbe Martens.

Elite Patent/IP Boutiques:

Desmarais McKool Smith Keker Van Nest & Peters Wolf Greenfield Banner Witcoff Susman Godfrey Hueston Hennigan Reichman Jorgensen Durie Tangri Tensegrity Law Group.

Candidate Note: If you currently practice patent litigation at a top-tier BigLaw firm or elite IP/patent litigation boutique please feel free to apply even if your law school falls outside the preferred T1-T50 range. Candidates with exceptional firm pedigree substantive patent litigation experience strong academic credentials and a relevant STEM background will receive full consideration.

Location

San Francisco CA Silicon Valley CA