# Assistant General Counsel, Patent Litigation

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Upper Providence, Pennsylvania
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Assistant General Counsel, Patent Litigation role is responsible for actively developing and executing patent litigation strategy across a broad and diverse international intellectual property and product/technology portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead highly complex and significantly impactful patent enforcement initiatives.

- Develop and execute litigation strategy across various jurisdictions, with a focus on the United States and Europe.

- Represent GSK at meetings, hearings, and trials.

- Effectively manage numerous competing priorities and perform at a high level in a continually changing global legal, regulatory, and scientific environment.

- Interface with company at all levels, including General Counsel and other senior business and legal employees.

- Communicate effectively and build teamwork among company employees involved in enforcement and defense of critical GSK intellectual property.

- Work very closely with external counsel and internal stakeholders to develop and drive overall litigation strategy.

- Demonstrate capacity for innovation in providing unique and creative solutions to complex legal issues.

- Drive AI solutions to deliver AI initiatives, including those related to litigation management and outcomes.

Basic Qualifications:

- Qualified U.S. attorney, JD degree required.

- 8+ years of significant experience with complex patent litigation in the biotechnology and/or pharmaceutical industries.

- Major U.S. law firm and/or large corporate litigation department experience.

- Demonstrated experience with international IP litigations.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Extensive hands-on experience with all aspects of U.S. patent litigation.

- An advanced scientific degree and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

- Ability to work in a highly team-oriented environment.

- Creative and strategic approach to the development and enforcement of IP.

- Ability to communicate competently and confidently with senior management.

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## Skills

### Required
- patent litigation
- intellectual property
- litigation strategy
- legal advice

### Nice to have
- U.S. patent litigation
- international IP litigations
- AI solutions
- strategic approach to IP

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