IP Attorney

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Actively develop and manage a global patent portfolio, including assessing invention disclosures, conducting inventor interviews, presenting at invention review meetings, and recommending strategic portfolio maintenance.
• Manage outside counsel to effectively prepare and prosecute high-quality patent applications, draft petitions, appeals, and/or other exceptional or non-routine papers as necessary to gain allowance/issuance and also provide guidance to outside counsel consistent with ASML objectives and operating guidelines.
• Contribute to the execution of ASML IP strategies, including patent filing and product clearance.
• Evaluate patent and other IP positioning of third parties to provide risk assessment, freedom-to-operate analysis, product clearance, and mitigation strategies and also evaluate any third-party infringement claims against ASML.
• Interact and work regularly with key stakeholders in engineering and business organizations to acquire a deep knowledge of current and future ASML products and business goals, and develop and align ASML patent portfolio with those business goals, identify opportunities to establish IP protection, determine existence of patent risks and mitigate such risks.
• Provide guidance and counsel to business teams on a range of intellectual property matters as requested or deemed appropriate.
• Conduct periodic training to employees on intellectual property matters.
• Occasionally assist with advising or structuring and/or negotiating inbound or outbound patent licenses.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Flexible to work extended hours when necessary to meet project deadlines and business objectives.
• Some travel, both domestic and international, will be required.
• Job description subject to change at any time.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in the engineering or physical sciences disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, systems and controls science, physics, materials, or optics. Advanced degree in physics with experience in optics a plus.
• 3+ years of relevant patent experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications and rendering patentability, non-infringement opinions and general risk analysis is required.
• Must be licensed to practice before the United States Patent Office.
• Must be licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. state or the District of Columbia, California preferred.
• Experience with physics, optics, electron optics, and/or semiconductor processing strongly preferred.
• Prior in-house experience preferred, including experience with interacting, developing and discussing strategy with engineers and senior management.
• Experience planning and directing administrative staff and others in activities supporting the ASML’s IP work and objectives.
• Strong foundational technical knowledge.
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, at least one IP database, and on-line research tools.
• Strong English communication skills, including the ability to read, write, and discuss complex legal and technical matters.
• Fully functioning in the job independently with only general direction required.
• Strong professional drive to take on challenging assignments.
• Decisive and self-initiating.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with various teams across ASML including a diverse group of colleagues and internal clients in multiple countries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent judgment and critical thinking skills to understand how assigned responsibilities advance ASML’s business objectives and the ability to provide practical and actionable solutions and advice
• Excellent client service ethics and skills, with an advanced understanding of client relationship-building
• Ability to conduct detailed technical analysis while maintaining a high-level strategic view.
• Strong competency with the tools, systems, and procedures required to accomplish the job.
• Be a team player.
• Travel
• 10% of travel required
• Context of the position
• This position is located on-site in San Jose, CA. It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation.
• A flexible workplace arrangement may be available to employees working in roles conducive to remote work (up to two days a week).
• Physical demands and work environment
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is routinely required to sit, walk, talk, hear, use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch; required to move around the campus.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• May require both domestic and international travel depending on business needs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• $170,800-234,850
• Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.
• The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US.
• All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.
• This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.
• Inclusion and diversity
• ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.
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• ASML provides reasonable accommodations to applicants for ASML employment and ASML employees with disabilities. An accommodation is a change in work rules, facilities, or conditions which enable an individual with a disability to apply for a job, perform the essential functions of a job, and/or enjoy equal access to the benefits and privileges of employment. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete an application, participate in an interview, or otherwise participate in the employee pre-selection process, please send an email to [email protected] to initiate the company’s reasonable accommodation process.
• Please note: This email address is solely intended to provide a method for applicants to initiate ASML’s process to request accommodation(s). Any recruitment questions should be directed to the designated Talent Acquisition member for the position.

Personal Skills

• Fully functioning in the job independently with only general direction required.
• Strong professional drive to take on challenging assignments.
• Decisive and self-initiating.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with various teams across ASML including a diverse group of colleagues and internal clients in multiple countries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent judgment and critical thinking skills to understand how assigned responsibilities advance ASML’s business objectives and the ability to provide practical and actionable solutions and advice
• Excellent client service ethics and skills, with an advanced understanding of client relationship-building
• Ability to conduct detailed technical analysis while maintaining a high-level strategic view.
• Strong competency with the tools, systems, and procedures required to accomplish the job.
• Be a team player.
• Travel
• 10% of travel required
• Context of the position
• This position is located on-site in San Jose, CA. It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation.
• A flexible workplace arrangement may be available to employees working in roles conducive to remote work (up to two days a week).
• In addition to base pay this position is eligible for tier based bonus and equity.
• Physical demands and work environment
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is routinely required to sit, walk, talk, hear, use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch; required to move around the campus.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• May require both domestic and international travel depending on business needs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
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• The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:
• $170,800-234,850
• Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.
• The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US.
• All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.
• This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

Inclusion and diversity

Request an Accommodation

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in the engineering or physical sciences disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, systems and controls science, physics, materials, or optics. Advanced degree in physics with experience in optics a plus.
• Must be licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. state or the District of Columbia, California preferred.
• Experience with physics, optics, electron optics, and/or semiconductor processing strongly preferred.
• Prior in-house experience preferred, including experience with interacting, developing and discussing strategy with engineers and senior management.
• In addition to base pay this position is eligible for tier based bonus and equity.