Patent Litigation Associate
Pinsent Masons Llp
Patent Litigation Associate
Salary Not Specified
Pinsent Masons Llp, City of Westminster
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 13 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 014db6ee1c564ea7bf4244bc9aed2729
Full Job Description
- Opportunities to work with high profile clients across a number of different sectors, including life sciences, advanced manufacturing, technology, financial services, higher education, retail and energy, on precedent setting litigation. You will be working on the biggest most important cases in IP before the UK High Court.
- Opportunities to work with colleagues in our European offices. We work as a seamless European team, so you will be working alongside our colleagues on pan-European mandates.
- Opportunities for real client engagement - from the start you will be liaising with clients, taking instructions from clients and investing in client development activities. Building and expanding relationships with clients.
- Opportunities for your continued development and learning. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver "best in class" services.
The candidate will be a highly technical lawyer with a strong enthusiasm for, and understanding of, the practical and technical elements of patent litigation, including oppositions before the European Patent Office. - have been working in a well regarded firm having a strong life sciences and/or high-tech practice, have significant experience of handling patent applications in the biotechnological and pharmaceutical fields, and involving complex technologies, but must also be willing to work on matters in the broader chemical and/or high-tech field and have a strong client focussed approach. Experience of opinion, and / or contentious work is required;
- be a team player, able to forge strong working relationships with colleagues in an agile environment;
- be technically strong and able to exercise good commercial judgment;
- have the strong interpersonal skills necessary to develop strong relationships with clients and market contacts and across the wider firm.
- Winner: Europe - Cross-border Patent Litigation Team of the Year: for Teva and others (Truvada SPC) at Managing IP EMEA Awards 2021
- Industry Partner of the Year - Global Generics & Biosimilars Awards 2021
- Winner - TMT and Life Sciences Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards 2019
- Winner - 'UK Patent Contentious Firm of the Year' and 'Impact Case of the Year' at Managing Intellectual Property EMEA Awards 2020
- Winner - Impact Case of the Year' at Managing Intellectual Property EMEA Awards 2019
- Shortlisted - Patent Contentious Team of the Year, Managing IP Awards 2022
- Winner - UK Firm of the Year, LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA 2023
- Winner - EMEA Patent Litigation Firm of the Year, LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA 2023
- Shortlisted - Tier 1 Life Sciences and Healthcare, Legal 500 UK 2023, Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
A first degree in a scientific discipline or technical discipline (for example, molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering) would be advantageous but is not essential. The candidate will have real ambition and will be able to work effectively in a team. The candidate can expect to have significant independent interaction with clients.,
The focus of the role is business critical patent litigation and related patent advisory work.
We are currently looking to recruit a talented 2-7 yrs PQE Intellectual Property lawyer to join Pinsent Masons' Intellectual Property team to be based in our London office., Pinsent Masons LLP has a highly respected and experienced IP team which is one of the largest in the UK advising a wide range of life sciences, blue chip technology, manufacturing, and retail companies on business critical IP litigation to achieve market access and to maintain market positions, as well as all aspects of the exploitation and enforcement of their intellectual property rights. We have approximately 67 lawyers in the Intellectual Property practice in the UK alone. Our European team is also extensive with experts based in 4 other key markets for IP matters with whom we collaborate on a daily basis.
Our intellectual property contentious team is involved in precedent setting actions before the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and CJEU in both hard and soft IP. We have been involved in 3 cases before the Supreme Court as well as references to the CJEU and are developing a strong pan-EU offering in respect of the Unified Patent Court (UPC).
The contentious and non-contentious intellectual property work is done in a standalone, unitary IP team which services its own clients as well as those of the wider firm. The work includes advising clients on freedom to operate, strategic business critical litigation, managing their intellectual property and optimising their returns and investment. It also includes advising on potential collaborations with third parties and on the IP aspects of the sale or purchase of businesses.
A substantial number of the team have science backgrounds in a wide range of disciplines such as biological sciences, electronics, physics and chemistry. Coupled with legal expertise, this puts the team as one of the leaders in handling challenging IP disputes. In addition, the team has extensive experience of specialist sectors such as life sciences, pharmaceuticals, high tech, energy, AI, retail, ICT, financial services, automotive, natural resources and universities to list but a few.
Many of the matters which the team handles include an international element and there is a considerable knowledge base within the team concerning practices and the variety of ways disputes are handled in other jurisdictions, as well as regular opportunities to collaborate with IP colleagues across Pinsent Masons' international offices. Such knowledge is essential where cross-border factors are involved or forum shopping is an issue.
Introduction to Life Sciences at Pinsent Masons
Pinsent Masons has one of the most comprehensive life sciences offerings of any firm in the UK and that is supplemented by sector specific expertise in a number of our international offices.
This is reflected in a number of recent awards for our team including:
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.
We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever their ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham.
Put simply, we offer a wide range of professional services to our clients, enabled by our breadth of expertise, our culture and values, and our innovative approach.
Awards
We're being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT's most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters' leading legal brand in their UK index.
We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500.