Intellectual Property Attorney

1 Day ago • 1-3 Years • $95,800 PA - $159,600 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

CME Group is looking for a Patent Attorney to join the IP legal group. The role involves collaborating with the IP Team, technology experts, and external counsel. The attorney will work in a fast-paced business, providing strategic advice on innovative initiatives such as new products, R&D, and partnerships. Responsibilities include managing patent prosecution, overseeing outside counsel, managing invention disclosures, conducting patent training, advising on patent strategy, analyzing the patent portfolio, and conducting patent landscape studies and due diligence reviews.
Must have:
  • Manage patent prosecution and IP protection strategy.
  • Oversee outside counsel and ensure adherence to policies.
  • Manage invention disclosures and inventor education.
  • Conduct patent training sessions for engineers.
  • Advise management on patent program strategy.
  • Analyze the CME Group patent portfolio.
  • Conduct patent landscape studies.
  • Conduct due diligence reviews.
Good to have:
  • Knowledge of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office practices.
  • Experience with a patent asset management system.
  • Professional experience in a technical field.
  • Understanding of financial markets and derivatives.

Job Details

CME Group is looking for a Patent Attorney to join the IP legal group. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our innovative IP Team, technology experts, and external counsel. You will work at the intersection of tech and finance, and you will be part of a fast-paced business with the opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and provide strategic advice. The IP legal group supports many of the company’s most innovative initiatives, including new products and services, research and development, and external partnerships and collaborations.

In this role, you will: 

  • Manage all aspects of patent prosecution, including processing invention disclosures and determining an appropriate IP protection strategy.

  • Oversee all aspects of patent prosecution by outside counsel, including quality of work, level of service, adherence to policies, policy exception requests, and syncing on current events and prosecution trends.

  • Manage the strategy, volume, and quality of invention disclosures generated via mining sessions, directed inventing, inventor education, incentives, and objectives.

  • Conduct patent training sessions for engineers in various technology areas

  • Advise and update management on patent program strategy, initiatives, and goals

  • Analyze the CME Group patent portfolio to advise business teams and make maintenance and annuity fee decisions

  • Conduct patent landscape studies to support discovery and early-stage R&D projects.

  • Conduct due diligence reviews of IP-related documents in acquisition and investment transactions to identify and understand IP risks in proposed transactions, and participate in periodic project discussions with key stakeholders and other legal counterparts to track due diligence findings.

Minimum requirements: 

  • J.D. from an accredited law school, 

  • Active license to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction.

  • Registration as a patent attorney with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

  • 1-3 years relevant experience in all aspects of patent prosecution practice.

  • Solid understanding of patent law, in particular patent eligibility (35 USC 101), as applied to software.

  • Degree in an engineering field or Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics from an accredited university or college, or significant professional experience with software.

An ideal candidate also has: 

  • Knowledge of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office administrative practices

  • Experience with a patent asset management system

  • Professional experience in a technical field, e.g., as a software engineer.

  • An understanding of financial markets and derivatives is preferred  but not required.

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CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active Pension Plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic Benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.

At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

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As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. We enable clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes foreign exchange energy agricultural products and metals. We meet uncertainty and volatility with confidence and clarity, across the trading lifecycle and around the world.

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