# Intellectual Property Attorney

**Company**: CVS Health
**Location**: Woonsocket, RI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $175,100.00 - $334,750.00
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

CVS Health is seeking an experienced and business-minded intellectual property attorney to manage its growing patent portfolio and trade secrets in a fast-paced environment and advise on technology-related legal issues.

The successful candidate will develop and execute strategies for CVS's patent portfolio, support invention harvesting, patent prosecution, patent litigation, intellectual property aspects of technology agreements, acquisitions, AI governance, and open source governance and licensing.

Responsibilities include:

- Collaborating with inventors, business leaders, and R&D and technology teams to identify strategic areas for patenting, identify and develop potentially patentable inventions, and evaluate inventions for patentability and strategic value.

- Developing and implementing strategies for building and maintaining a strategic patent portfolio that aligns with the company's business objectives.

- Overseeing and managing outside counsel in drafting and filing patent applications, responding to office actions, and maintaining patent assets.

- Conducting and/or managing freedom-to-operate analyses to assess potential patent risks associated with product development and commercialization.

- Providing legal advice and support regarding patent litigation matters and disputes.

- Advising internal legal and business stakeholders on intellectual property aspects of technology agreements.

- Advising business and technology teams on the identification, protection, use, and disclosure of trade secrets and other confidential proprietary information.

- Cultivating an IP-aware culture by counseling and educating internal partners on intellectual property issues.

- Working cross-functionally with security and engineering teams to implement and refine existing open source governance policies and procedures.

- Advising on intellectual property issues arising from artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of experience in a wide range of intellectual property legal matters, focusing primarily on patent, trade secret and information technology law.

- Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.

- Membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.

- Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

- Degree or equivalent experience in a technical field, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.

- Strong patent portfolio building and invention harvesting skills.

- Experience with transactional matters, including intellectual property licensing, technology agreements, and intellectual property aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions.

- Ability to shape and execute intellectual property strategies to support business goals.

- Superior written and oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- 2+ years in-house experience managing a patent portfolio.

- 1+ year of transactional experience negotiating and drafting IP provisions in agreements.

- 1+ year of experience with open source software (OSS).

- Experience with AI, machine learning, data processing, and/or software patents and related intellectual property matters.

The typical pay range for this role is: $175,100.00 - $334,750.00 per year.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources.

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## Skills

### Required
- patent law
- trade secret law
- information technology law
- intellectual property licensing
- technology agreements

### Nice to have
- open source software
- AI
- machine learning
- data processing
- software patents

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