# IP Counsel, Life Sciences Patents

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $335,000-$385,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society.

You will manage patent strategy and filings for Anthropic's life sciences research, working closely with researchers, patents lead, Head of IP, Research Legal, Life Sciences Counsel, and outside counsel.

## Responsibilities

- Manage patent strategy and filings for Anthropic's life sciences research in the U.S. and internationally

- Serve as the trusted patent advisor to life science research teams

- Make inventorship determinations for AI-assisted research

- Develop claim and filing strategies across biological and chemical inventions

- Partner with Research Legal and Communications on publication timing

- Advise on patent aspects of agreements with life science and biopharma counterparties

- Anticipate emerging legal developments affecting AI technologies

## Minimum qualifications

- Law degree (JD, LLB, or equivalent) and local licensing requirements

- Degree or equivalent training in a life sciences or chemistry field

- Substantial hands-on experience drafting and prosecuting U.S. life sciences patent applications

- Lead responsibility for a patent portfolio

- Experience making inventorship determinations and resolving ownership questions

- Excellent communication skills

- Low-ego, high-empathy orientation and a 'doer' attitude

- Intense curiosity about AI and science

## Preferred qualifications

- 10+ years of patent experience

- Advanced degree in a life sciences or chemistry field

- Experience with AI/ML companies or inventions at the boundary of biology and machine learning

- Working knowledge of patents interacting with regulatory exclusivity, trade secrets, and open science

- Familiarity with biosecurity, dual-use research, or export control considerations

- Experience leveraging AI to optimize work

The annual compensation range for this role is $335,000-$385,000 USD.

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## Skills

### Required
- life sciences patent applications
- patent strategy
- inventorship determinations
- claim and filing strategies

### Nice to have
- AI/ML companies
- biological and chemical inventions
- regulatory exclusivity
- trade secrets
- open science
- biosecurity
- dual-use research
- export control considerations

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