Intellectual Property Manager

Intellectual Property Manager

Location:

Pearland, TX, US, 77047

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid

DOVER PRECISION COMPONENTS:

Dover Precision Components ‘DPC’ (‘the Company’) is part of Dover Corporation’s (‘the Parent Company’) Pumps and Process solutions segment. DPC holds market leading positions globally and delivers performance-critical solutions across the oil & gas, power generation, marine, industrial, chemical and general processing markets. We design and manufacture mission-critical equipment components to deliver more affordable, cleaner energy solutions and enable manufacturers to operate more efficiently.

WE DELIVER CUSTOMER SUCCESS

Dover Precision Components delivers products and services that enhance performance, improve safety, reduce carbon emissions,and accelerate clean energy adoption, through collaborative customer relationships, expert engineering, and an innovative culture. Our strong Company portfolio is comprised of long products and services offered under Cook Compression, Cook Mechanical Field Services, Waukesha Bearings, Waukesha Magnetic Bearings, Inpro/Seal, Bearings Plus, and FW Murphy Production Controls.

Our global footprint reaches more than twelve locations in the Americas and more than six locations in Europe and China.

BUILDING POTENTIAL. SUSTAINING PERFORMANCE. BOOSTING FUTURES.

We are diligent in recognizing our employees’ needs and providing an enriching experience through professional developmental opportunities. Our authentic, collaborative company culture, combined with a competitive suite of health and welfare offerings, emulates who we are. We are Dover Precision Components, #LifeAtDPC

This role provides coordination and leadership for DPC’s intellectual property portfolio through strategic planning, the intellectual property committee, inventors, and legal counsel. The scope of this includes patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.

• Work with key stakeholders in the organization to determine whether technology and inventions within each product line have commercial applications and recommend whether intellectual property protection should be sought.
• Foster and encourage DPC’s inventors to produce invention disclosures and other supporting documentation when the opportunity arises and guide patenting decisions.
• Initiate and manage patentability, right to use, and state of the art patent searches.
• Liaise with outside counsel to prepare, file, and prosecute patent applications and perform patent utilization and right-to-use analyses. Seek IP protection in key countries of focus for the business.
• Track progress and organize information pertaining to DPC’s IP portfolio of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
• Identify, prompt decisions for, and notify outside agencies of patent prosecution decisions.
• Develop and manage trade secret identification and protection strategies.

• Engage and liaise with marketing team to determine branding strategies including name clearances and filing strategies.
• Facilitate brand name clearance searches and support trademarking legal needs.
• Consult decision makers and execute trademark decisions.
• File copyright registrations as needed.

• Facilitate IP clearances (freedom-to-operate) for new products and support to development and research teams.
• Lead competitive analysis of patent and commercial product landscapes.
• Lead early stages of infringement investigations and coordinate with outside counsel to perform evidence gathering and implement document holds.
• Monitor DPC brands for competitive trademarks filings; engage management and outside counsel to devise and execute strategies where necessary.

• Manage the internal idea generation program that encourages innovation within engineering, operations, marketing, and business development.
• Lead cross-functional technology evaluation and review to enable IP decision making.
• Curate existing ideas, IP, concepts, and other innovations so as to ensure visibility and training of engineers.
• Lead or co-lead with outside counsel brainstorming sessions including targeted…