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We’re seeking a highly skilled and experienced attorney to join Apple’s IP Special Deals & Analytics team. You’ll join a team of technical, financial, and legal experts to drive strategy for some of the most complex IP issues facing Apple. You’ll also work cross-functionally with other business and legal teams at Apple. And you’ll navigate and negotiate with multiple external IP stakeholders. Key responsibilities include: • Managing IP deals and negotiations with data-driven analysis and innovative approaches. • Negotiating, valuing, and drafting IP license, acquisition, and settlement agreements. • Identifying key existing and emerging areas of IP risk and opportunity, and developing innovative ways to address them. • Curating and providing centralized IP data and intelligence to inform decision-making and strategy. • Developing comprehensive diligence and analysis for incoming IP disputes. • Working closely with Apple’s IP Litigation and IP Transactions teams, as well as outside counsel and experts, to develop strategies to navigate IP disputes. • Fostering partnerships with engineering, operations, supply, finance, product legal, and other teams at Apple to develop and drive IP dispute strategies.
- 8+ years experience at a top law firm, in-house legal department, and/or patent transactions entity.
- In-depth experience managing complex, multi-party IP disputes and transactions, both in litigation and outside of litigation.
- Deep knowledge of patent license and other IP transactions agreement principles.
- JD or equivalent and admission to at least one US state bar.
- Experience with and knowledge of stakeholders in the patent monetization space, including pools, aggregators, brokers, and litigation funders.
- Experience managing cross-border IP issues.
- Ability to advise and coordinate with all types of business, legal, and engineering clients in an unstructured environment.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Excellent communication, analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Strategic problem solver with the ability to see the big picture while working with ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Proven track record of working independently, balancing numerous evolving workstreams, and taking ownership.
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