US Patent Attorney – Senior Patent Counsel, Program Strategy & Litigation

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $252k - $346.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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argenx

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2008

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🧬 Biotechnology

Healthcare • Consulting • Biotechnology

argenx is a biotechnology company committed to improving the lives of patients through immunology innovation. The company focuses on developing novel antibody-based therapies to treat severe autoimmune diseases. Using a collaborative approach with pioneering scientists and academic partners, argenx accelerates the discovery of therapeutic antibodies that target specific disease pathways. The company's proprietary products, such as efgartigimod, are aimed at treating diseases where IgG antibodies are pathogenic. Argenx emphasizes innovation, science of collaboration, and patient-centric approaches in its mission to deliver life-changing medical solutions.

📋 Description

• Protect innovations that improve the lives of patients with severe autoimmune diseases • Build intellectual property litigation and contested-matter strategy • Partner with the broader IP team to bring a litigation perspective to patent portfolio building • Act as lead attorney for a focused portfolio of preclinical and clinical projects and programs • Align IP dispute strategy with broader legal and business priorities • Help drive an agentic IP team working alongside artificial intelligence agents • Develop business-aligned protection and enforcement strategies • Build and manage global portfolios and oversee patent preparation, filing and prosecution in the United States, Europe and other key jurisdictions • Strengthen litigation readiness and lead or support patent disputes • Lead global IP dispute strategy and execution • Cover patent litigation, biosimilar disputes, patent-office challenges and oppositions, and related trade secret or contractual disputes • Act as strategic IP partner to global project teams responsible for key drug candidates • Translate complex science and patent issues into recommendations supporting product development and commercialization • Identify and protect inventions, assess inventorship, manage public disclosures and strengthen trade secret protection • Conduct infringement, validity, freedom-to-operate and competitive landscape analyses • Lead patent-related diligence and support licensing, collaborations, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions • Review, draft and negotiate IP provisions and agreements • Manage external counsel and business partners • Evaluate infringement, validity, enforceability, evidence and business exposure • Develop enforcement, defense and settlement options and communicate recommendations • Select and direct external counsel in global IP litigations and contested matters • Oversee case plans, budgets, discovery, experts, witnesses and key submissions • Lead pre-dispute planning and biosimilar readiness • Work on evidence preservation, legal holds and witness preparation • Lead patent strategy for assigned programs, including portfolio development, prosecution, invention and disclosure management, and freedom-to-operate assessment • Partner with program attorneys to strengthen defensibility and enforcement options • Pilot approved agent-assisted workflows for dispute monitoring, evidence chronologies, document triage, reference verification and matter reporting • Define tasks, authoritative inputs, review checkpoints and escalation rules for agent-assisted workflows • Verify outputs and references, protect confidential and privileged information, and retain attorney accountability • Partner with IP operations, technology and other colleagues to turn pilots into repeatable practices • Share learning, coach colleagues and assess improvements in quality, responsiveness and capacity

🎯 Requirements

• A Juris Doctor (JD) degree • Active membership in good standing in at least one US state bar • Registration to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) • At least eight years of life sciences patent experience • Substantial hands-on US BPCIA or ANDA patent litigation or contested-matter experience • Demonstrated ability to lead complex disputes or major workstreams • Large-molecule experience • Ability to connect litigation risk and enforcement objectives with portfolio development, prosecution and business strategy • Genuine, demonstrable appetite and curiosity to help drive an evolving agentic IP team • Willingness to learn emerging AI capabilities, question established processes, experiment responsibly and help colleagues adopt better ways of working • Strong legal and business judgment • Ability to explain complex issues clearly, make practical recommendations and collaborate effectively across scientific, commercial and legal teams • Advanced life sciences degree, preferably at least a thesis-based master’s degree in biology or a related field (preferred) • Biosimilar litigation experience, patent-office challenges, cross-border disputes, trial or appeal experience, and licensing or settlement negotiations (preferred/valuable) • Experience improving legal workflows or using AI, automation or knowledge tools (welcome) • Prior agent-building experience and coding skills are not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive programs • Long-term incentive programs • Retirement savings plans • Health benefits • Comprehensive benefits package • Equal consideration without discrimination • Reasonable accommodation in the application and selection process

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