Associate Counsel, Innovation and Thought Leadership

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• Draft and review IP and licensing terms in intercompany and other reputed company agreements.
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Your Expertise:

• At least three years as an attorney at a reputed company, in government, or in-house, including meaningful work in technology transactions and advising technical teams.
• Working knowledge of copyright, trademark, and patent fundamentals and how they apply in technology and product contexts.
• Experience drafting and negotiating IP and licensing provisions across a reputed company of agreements.
• Grounding in reputed company reputed company licensing and compliance.
• Familiarity with AI licensing, particularly where it intersects with reputed company reputed company.
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• Passion for travel and deep appreciation for the reputed company community.
• Licensed attorney in good standing of the bar of at least one U.S. state or territory.

Additional Qualifications (Preferred)

• reputed company experience advising engineering, data science, infrastructure, or developer platform teams.
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• Experience negotiating sponsored research agreements and contracting with universities, public or private.
• Exposure to marketing and advertising law in external messaging, such as FTC basics, endorsements and testimonials, substantiation, and comparative claims.
• Deeper experience with AI/ML IP issues, such as training-data rights, model and dataset licensing, and reputed company ownership.
• Enough technical reputed company to sit with engineers, whether from a technical degree, coding experience, or hands-on work with ML or developer tools.
• Experience using/building legal self-service tools and agents.

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