Patent Attorney

Duties & Responsibilities Strategic Business Partnership & Patent Strategy • Serve as embedded IP business partner; attend engineering, product, roadmap, and sales reviews on a recurring cadence. Develop deep technical fluency to engage substantively. • Drive patent claim strategy designed to read on competitor products and roadmaps; lead competitive teardowns and reverse-engineering with engineering and outside vendors. • Conduct infringement and FTO analyses; set filing, continuation, and abandonment strategy aligned with business objectives. • Identify monetization opportunities: SEP declarations and licensing, assertion campaigns, defensive cross-licensing, and divestiture candidates. • Triage non-IP legal issues and route to appropriate L&GA SMEs while owning the IP workstream end-to-end. Portfolio Management, Risk & Commercial Support • Direct and supervise outside counsel on U.S. and foreign drafting, filing, and prosecution; manage budgets and quality; draft personally for strategically critical inventions. • Lead invention harvesting; coach inventors; adopt AI tools across invention identification, prior art / FTO search, drafting, and analytics. • Support patent litigation and pre-litigation matters; lead clearance and FTO for new products and acquisition targets. • Support IP aspects of commercial agreements (NDAs, JDAs, supply agreements, licenses, M&A diligence). PRC-Specific Responsibilities • Primary L&GA point of contact for IP in the PRC: manage CNIPA filings, prosecution, and outside counsel relationships in China. • Manage technology-localization decisions for Chinese-developed inventions (PRC-first vs. global filing); structure filings and disclosures to minimize cross-border legal and regulatory friction. • Coordinate with trade compliance on PRC and U.S. export-control, technology-transfer, and dual-use considerations. • Advise on patent-vs.-trade-secret decisions, employee/contractor controls, and PRC IP assignment practices; support "high-technology entity" (高新技术企业) status maintenance. • Conduct IP training, invention harvesting workshops, and competitive-landscape sessions at PRC sites; travel within the PRC as needed. Technical Domain Focus • Telecommunications: coherent optical transmission, WSS, ROADMs, and related long-haul / metro network technologies. • Advanced optics: precision components, specialty fiber, optical coatings (telecom, defense, industrial, instrumentation). • Semiconductor optoelectronics: EMLs, DMLs, VCSELs, photodetectors, modulators; wafer-level processes, epitaxial growth, and device packaging. • Optical transceivers and datacom: 400G / 800G / 1.6T, co-packaged optics, linear-drive and linear pluggable optics for AI / hyperscale data centers; DSP and driver/TIA electronics where they intersect.

Qualification & Requirements • Operates as a true business partner — not a service provider — with strategic mindset on patents as competitive and monetization instruments. • Advanced verbal and written fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English; able to draft and negotiate in both languages. • Deep familiarity with PRC IP, trade secrets, employment, and technology-export regulatory environment; pragmatic handling of cross-border IP and tech-transfer. • Strong outside-counsel and project management across geographies; able to operate independently as on-the-ground L&GA presence in the PRC while staying tightly connected to the global IP function. • Operates as a true business partner — not a service provider — with strategic mindset on patents as competitive and monetization instruments. • Advanced verbal and written fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English; able to draft and negotiate in both languages. • Deep familiarity with PRC IP, trade secrets, employment, and technology-export regulatory environment; pragmatic handling of cross-border IP and tech-transfer. • Strong outside-counsel and project management across geographies; able to operate independently as on-the-ground L&GA presence in the PRC while staying tightly connected to the global IP function.

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