# Intellectual Property Counsel

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: Maplewood, MN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $188,251 - $230,084
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

As an Intellectual Property Counsel at 3M, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with innovative people around the world and make an impact by:

- Preparing patent applications and prosecuting patents globally

- Handling opposition, IPR, and litigation-related support activities in IP disputes

- Acting as a direct contact for and interacting with business clients, outside counsel, and international colleagues

- Providing IP services in the areas of dispute management, transaction services, compliance, and advice

- Working independently on matters of significant complexity and importance

- Providing legal services to large, complex businesses

- Leading transactional processes for IP transactions of significant impact and/or complexity

- Managing IP litigation and other forms of dispute resolution for significant matters and formulating strategies for dispute resolution

- Being a subject matter expert in some areas of IP law and having responsibilities beyond a single business unit or country

- Handling other duties as assigned

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A Bachelor's degree or higher

- A Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school

- Three years of law firm and/or in-house IP experience in a private, public, government or military environment

- Membership of a United States state bar in good standing

- Registration to Practice before the USPTO

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

- Five years of law firm and/or in-house IP experience in a private, public, government or military environment

- Substantial experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications globally

- Experience involving IP litigation and other patent disputes

- Admittance to practice in Minnesota or eligibility for admission within six months of employment

- Strong academic credentials

- Business acumen and an ability to provide legal advice in the context of strategic business initiatives and goals

- Highly effective written and verbal communications skills, with an ability to communicate and relate at all levels of the organization

- Results-orientated approach; personal and organizational accountability; and a collegial work style

- High energy and responsive client service

This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN.

The expected compensation range for this position is $188,251 - $230,084, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.

## Skills

### Required
- Juris Doctorate degree
- IP law
- Patent applications
- Litigation

### Nice to have
- IP litigation
- Patent disputes
- Business acumen
- Communication skills

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