Senior Counsel - Biotech Patent Law

Career Category Law/Legal

Job Description Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions.

As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Senior Counsel
- Biotech Patent Law What you will doLet’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will develop, implement, and execute a global intellectual property strategy for protecting Amgen’s therapeutic products and product candidates (e.g., antibodies, dual targeting molecules, immunotherapeutics, RNA therapies, or cell-based therapies), including formulations, process development, and manufacturing methods relating to Amgen’s pipeline and in-line  addition, you will conduct IP due diligence activities in support of Amgen’s strategic transactions and assist in the drafting and negotiation of IP provisions in various types of transactional agreements.

Your responsibilities will include:

Working closely with Amgen scientists to identify patentable inventions

Drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications worldwide

Conducting prior art searches

Analyzing patents and preparing freedom-to-operate opinions

Conducting IP due diligence in support of licensing, research collaboration, and acquisition activities

Assisting in the drafting and negotiating of IP provisions of transactional agreements

Providing legal advice and counsel to R&D and Business partners on a wide range of IP related matters

Assisting with litigation-related matters and challenging/defending patents in PTAB proceedings, opposition proceedings, and other forums

You will work individually, in legal teams, and in cross-functional research and business teams across various geographies

This role will ideally be based in proximity to Amgen's research site in South San Francisco, California, corporate headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California or Cambridge MA OR as a remote position in the United States.

What we expect of youWe are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is an attorney with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

J.D. degree or LL.M. degree from an accredited law school, admission to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction

Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Six (6) years of experience practicing patent or intellectual property law in the biopharma or life sciences space

Preferred Qualifications:

Ten (10) or more years of experience practicing patent or intellectual property law focused in the biopharma or life sciences space, including pre-JD experience as a patent agent

Experience in all aspects of U.S. and foreign intellectual property law relating to biotechnology at a law firm or biotechnology/pharmaceutical corporation

Experience with patent preparation and prosecution…