- Managing a global trademark portfolio, including trademark clearance, prosecution, enforcement, and licenses
- Conducting and reviewing trademark searches
- Building and managing a right-sized design patent portfolio
- Providing clear and actionable legal counsel on risk analysis and mitigation strategies for trademarks, trade dress, product designs, copyrights and domain names
- Preparing and prosecuting domestic trademark, trade dress, and design patents
- Managing enforcement of intellectual property rights, domestically and internationally, including cease & desist communications, UDRP, and TTAB proceedings
- Drafting and negotiating coexistence agreements, consent agreements, settlement agreements and trademark and other IP license agreements
- Providing legal support for trademark, copyright and domain name aspects of deals, licenses, agreements and other transactions including due diligence and review of agreements
- Providing legal review and support for generative AI projects
- Working with and supervising outside counsel
- Training clients on IP principles and corporate policies and procedures
- Building and maintaining strong client relationships
- Working collaboratively within Legal and with business partners to identify and execute creative and practical legal and business solutions
- Advising IP stakeholders on trends and developments in IP law
- Working with and supervising the work of trademark paralegals
- Prior law firm or USPTO experience, additional in-house experience a plus.
- Strong business acumen and ability to exercise sound commercial as well as legal judgment.
- Ability to prioritize workload and manage multiple competing deadlines; strong organizational skills.
- Strategic thinker who can step back and think big picture.
- Demonstrated team player.
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Senior Counsel, Trademark
3 weeks ago
Walmart, Inc. BENTONVILLE, United StatesWhat you'll do... Provide strategic advice and legal counsel related to Walmarts trademarks, trade dress, design patents, and copyrights, manage complex global disputes; and work with legal and business stakeholders to find creative solutions for mu Trade, Senior, Legal, Client R ...
Senior Counsel, Trademark - Bentonville, United States - Wal-Mart
Description
Position Summary...What you'll do...
Provide strategic advice and legal counsel related to Walmart's trademarks, trade dress, design patents, and copyrights, manage complex global disputes; and work with legal and business stakeholders to find creative solutions for multifaceted issues, while maintaining an acceptable level of legal risk in a fast-paced environment.
About Team:
Intellectual Property Center of Expertise
Join the Intellectual Property Center of Expertise within Digital Citizenship as a Senior Counsel, Trademarks. In this role, you will provide advice and counsel to teams across all of Walmart's businesses.
Specifically, you will partner cross-functionally with key business stakeholders as well as subject matter experts throughout Walmart's legal and compliance organizations.
You'll make an impact by...What you'll bring:
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.
We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.
People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow.
We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career.
Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs.
This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits:
Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice.
We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them.
That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.
Walmart.
Hoboken, New Jersey US-10279:The annual salary range for this position is $156,000.00-$312,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-09401:The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$260,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Law degree from an accredited law school and 5 years' experience in law.
License to practice law in at least one state.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Leading cross-functional teams
Primary Location...
702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America