IP & Patent Operations Lead at Elanco in greenfield, Indiana

Job Description:

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Position Summary: 

Legal IP operations role to support patent and IP related process and policies for operations, coordination of internal invention review committees (IRC) support, basic legal agreements, education and portfolio data management.  This role will liaise with leaders of other key corporate functions and will report to the Director of Legal Operations and interface directly with the Global IP Legal Team.  

Responsibilities:

• Help coordinate, develop, educate and implement invention disclosure (IDEA) capture process


• Help coordinate and organize Invention Review Committees (IRCs), including scheduling meetings, publishing agendas, circulating pre-meeting review documents, recording committee decisions and implementing resulting action items in coordination with responsible IP legal attorneys


• Assist with Inventor remuneration in coordination with managing paralegal and responsible IP legal attorneys


• Facilitate and manage formal documents associated with patent filings, ownership/assignee transfers, financial instrument encumbrances


• Manage fee payments, maintenance and annuity payments


• Manage and facilitate annual forecasting and budgeting of maintenance/annuity payments


• Facilitate Information Disclosure Statement records and filings with IP legal attorneys, inventors, and contributors


• Monitor, facilitate and manage patent prosecution deadlines


• Manage and facilitate patent filing formalities


• Monitor, audit and improve data integrity within IP management software tool

·       Assist with maintaining patent to product maps

Basic Qualifications: 

• 5 years’ experience minimum as US patent paralegal


• Bachelor’s degree


• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Elanco Animal Health does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this position.

Additional Skills & Preferences:

•  2 years’ experience in-house

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status