Sr. Intellectual Property Counsel – IP Development

Remote from: USA
Salary, USD: 128,000 - 230,000/yr
Category: Finance & Legal
Job type: Full Time,
Opening date: 2 Mar 2023
Closing date: 1 May 2023
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Our Legal team protects Nielsen’s business, products, intellectual property and reputation. The team places a focus on developing excellence and agility as we minimize risk and move the business forward. Whether we’re solving a problem or averting a crisis, we’re creating the best environment possible to advance Nielsen’s reputation, preserve opportunities and help business to flourish.

Nielsen is seeking an experienced patent attorney to join its Intellectual Property Team on a permanent basis. The Senior Intellectual Property Counsel will work alongside Nielsen’s engineers, data scientists, and other innovators to continue developing a world class patent portfolio to propel Nielsen’s business goals.

The Senior Intellectual Property Counsel will work alongside colleagues from the Intellectual Property Team to develop a patent portfolio to protect technologies related to: design and operation of audience measurement metering devices; approaches for media recognition and classification leveraging digital signal processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; approaches for scaling and deduplicating audience measurement estimates via fusion of multiple data sets leveraging a variety of data science methodologies; and approaches for assessing audience engagement and advertising impact.

This fully flexible role is fully remote/work from home, Mid-West & Eastern timezone preferred.

Responsibilities:

Working directly with inventors and colleagues to determine patentability of invention disclosures, and working directly with inventors to review and approve drafted patent applications.
Drafting utility patent applications
Prosecuting patent applications in-house under supervision of IP portfolio manager both in the United States and in certain foreign jurisdictions by providing direct instructions to outside counsel foreign associates, including drafting and reviewing applications, interviewing patent examiners, drafting and reviewing office action responses, drafting and reviewing appeal briefs, and all other phases of patent prosecution.
Assisting in developing patent strategies that focus patent protection on competitively differentiating features of Nielsen’s products, including working with IP portfolio managers and Nielsen’s product owners to ensure alignment between Nielsen’s business stakeholders and patent strategy.
Providing intellectual property support to Nielsen’s engineering and product teams related to tech portfolio, including invention mining, patent training, and conducting patent audits of Nielsen’s products to identify existing and planned patent coverage and also identify patent whitespace for further IP development.

Qualifications:

At least 3 years patent-related experience. Experience working with inventors, developing patent portfolios, and preparing & prosecuting patent applications, including drafting patent applications, responses to office actions, and conducting examiner interviews.
Degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, electrical engineering, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or related industry experience, and/or in-depth knowledge of media content distribution, including but not limited to broadcast networks, cloud networking, wireless networks, end-user devices used to access and playback media content, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data science methodologies, and identity resolution.
U.S Patent Attorney admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Admitted to practice law in state of residence.
Previous in-house patent preparation and prosecution experience valued

Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans for full-time employees, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.

A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be between 128,000 – 230,000, which would be adjusted based on each employee’s geographic location. The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs.

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.