Senior Counsel – Biotech Patent Law - Biosimilars

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Join Amgen ’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen , if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Senior Counsel – Biotech Patent Law - Biosimilars

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will develop, implement and execute a market access strategy for Amgen ’s biosimilar and/or innovator molecules, including freedom-to-operate analyses for drug substance, drug product, formulations, processes, and methods of treatment.

Key Responsibilities could include:

- Handling all aspects of intellectual property, especially in identification of relevant patents, conducting searches for prior art, analyzing third party patents, developing persuasive legal arguments, drafting opinions, working with experts, and performing other pre-litigation activities

- Developing and implementing global freedom-to-operate strategies for Amgen products in collaboration with other in-house attorneys

- Drafting and prosecuting patent applications and providing patent litigation support

- Developing and counseling others on intellectual property strategies associated with Amgen ’s business and research endeavors

- Working individually, in legal teams, and in cross-functional business teams

- 10% domestic and global travel anticipated.

This role may be remote or may include hybrid work based at one of our sites in Thousand Oaks, CA; San Francisco, CA; or Cambridge, MA. The role requires the ability to work client group hours.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

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J.D. degree or LL.M. degree from an accredited law school, admission to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction

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four (4) years of experience practicing intellectual property law

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Registration to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Preferred Qualifications:

- 7+ years of experience practicing patent or intellectual property law.

- Enthusiasm for joining a cutting-edge biosimilar practice group at a leading biotechnology company.

- Experience in U.S. and/or foreign intellectual property law relating to biotechnology at a law firm or biotechnology/pharmaceutical corporation.

- Experience in U.S. and/or foreign adversarial proceedings (such as patent litigation, Inter Partes Reviews, Post Grant Reviews, or oppositions), including experience developing and implementing a global freedom- to-operate strategy.

- Undergraduate degree in the sciences and a working understanding of molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, structural biology, pharmaceutics, or chemical engineering. Preferably, an advanced degree, such as a Master’s or Ph.D., or research experience in one of these areas.

- Excellent judgement, analytical skills, legal drafting and oral and written com