Director, IP Legal Affairs

1 month ago


Irvine, California, United States Skyworks Full time

Partner closely with the Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel (VP, CIP) in executing Skyworks' global efforts to generate, identify and protect intellectual property that is essential to meeting the company's business objectives. Responsible for collaborating and executing on Skyworks' overall intellectual property strategy, as well as (1) collaborating in the development and maintenance of company intellectual property protections and processes, including patent applications, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, licensing and research agreements, publications, including harvesting, pre-patent filing review, providing legal advice to the company concerning the patent viability of its inventions and the advisability of filing patent applications covering the company's inventions; (2) partnering in the assessment of intellectual property risks and technology clearance issues and opinions associated with the development of Skyworks products; (3) evaluating third party IP portfolios, products and positions, including the validity of competitors' patents; (4) working as part of a team ensuring that all company intellectual property is protected, including implementation of cyber security measures; (5) collaborating in IP litigation claims review, providing other general legal advice and representing the company in matters relating to intellectual property law and ancillary transactional matters, as requested.

Partner with the VP, CIP in the assessment and mitigation of intellectual property risks and technology clearance issues associated with the entry of Skyworks into new key markets / product areas by participating in freedom-to-operate analysis, patent landscape analysis, licensing profiles and litigation risk profiles of relevant established competitors in such markets. Assist in the implementation and management of product specific infringement risk clearance analysis and active risk mitigation strategies regarding any future potential IP infringement matters involving third party IP portfolios of competitors.

As part of the IP Legal Team, will provide guidance on the effective and practical implementation and improvement of cyber-security protections and protocols surrounding key intellectual property assets in conjunction with the Skyworks Information Technology (IT) group to ensure proper safeguards are implemented and maintained so that key intellectual property assets are monitored, protected and controlled.

Supports M&A IP due diligence efforts and analysis relating to M&A activities pertaining to the acquisition of target companies and select IP portfolios as requested.

Work with Skyworks Standards Representatives to ensure we identify and protect intellectual property that is contributed to any Standards Organizations along with managing the contributions and compliance with each Standards Organization IPR Policy (including contribution and timeline requirements)

Work closely with other members of the Skyworks legal team on a variety of IP state of the art / competitive analysis projects with respect to related prosecution and technology assessment matters.

Assist in providing standardized IP process and programs along with a variety of standardized operating legal templates and formalized procedures to various Skyworks departments (HR, Legal and Business Units), along with on-going training and education to Skyworks business units and technical personnel to facilitate, harvest and protect developed IP/Patents for Skyworks.



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