# Counsel, Patents & IP

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This position will manage Lyft's patent function , driving the strategy and day-to-day management of our patent portfolio , while also advising on the company's approach to open source, reviewing technical publications before they go external, and serving as a trusted advisor on IP questions across the business.

## Responsibilities:

- Own the patent portfolio end to end for the company , invention harvesting, invention disclosure meetings, portfolio mining, and directing patent application preparation and prosecution by outside patent counsel.

- Drive patent strategy and drive filing, continuation, and abandonment decisions based on technical merit, competitive landscape, and cost, and own portfolio health and reporting against product roadmaps.

- Counsel and collaborate with engineering on open source license review and approval for inbound and outbound open source, including license compatibility and compliance risk.

- Review papers, blog posts, conference talks, and other public technical disclosures for IP and confidentiality risk and relevant counseling.

- Provide broad-based strategic and portfolio advice as well as counseling key stakeholders in protecting and defending IP rights worldwide.

- Support IP diligence for partnerships, M&A, and vendor relationships.

- Train and educate product and engineering teams in intellectual property matters, and build tools, policies, and processes that scale with the business.

## Experience:

- 5+ years of patent prosecution experience in a relevant area; in-house patent portfolio building/management experience a plus.

- Experience advising on open source license compliance.

- Must be a member of the Patent Bar and have substantial understanding of patent law outside of litigation.

- Must be proactive, self-directed, detail oriented, organized, and have exceptional communication skills.

- Adaptable and positive under shifting priorities, with the flexibility to move between deep legal work and lighter-touch, high-volume counseling on any given day.

- Demonstrate AI fluency and comfort using AI tools in day-to-day work.

- JD required.

- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field.

- State bar membership.

- Eligible to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office.

- Sense of humor and comfort with shifting priorities.

## Benefits:

- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled

- Mental health benefits

- Family building benefits

- Child care and pet benefits

- 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future

- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off

- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

- Subsidized commuter benefits

- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

## Skills

### Required
- patent law
- open source license compliance
- IP diligence
- AI fluency
- exceptional communication skills

### Nice to have
- in-house patent portfolio building/management experience
- experience advising on open source license compliance

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