Legal Career Center

500,000+. The number of patients reached through our work. The answers come when curious, courageous and collaborative people are empowered to ask new questions, make bold decisions and take smart risks. Sandoz, a Novartis division, is a leader in generic and biosimilar medicines and a pioneer in digital therapeutics.
This role will assist the VP, IP NA with a wide variety of IP matters relating to the commercialization of Sandoz products. This role is responsible for independently providing a high quality and diverse range of support to the U.S. IP team on IP litigation and business development ("BD") activities, with attorney supervision as appropriate. This role undertakes operational and strategic responsibilities to maximize the effectiveness of Paralegal services and support within the IP function at a local and global level.
Your key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
* Proactively and autonomously supports in-house attorneys and other legal professionals through all stages of US IP litigation matters including interacting with external counsel and Global functional partners.
* Proactively and autonomously supports in-house attorneys and other legal professionals on all aspects of Company's BD activities, including collaborating with BD colleagues.
* Participate on projects relating to IP litigation and BD processes/operations, driving the successful implementation of new and revised processes and guidelines.
* Litigation database document and information management; updating internal knowledge databases to record and report litigation events, updates and outcomes (e.g. Memotech, OneNote, SharePoint). Familiarity with patent and litigation databases (e.g. PatBase, Espacenet, PACER, etc).
* Prepare for and attend meetings with internal stakeholders and external counsel (including agenda management, minute taking and follow up, at lead attorney's instruction).
* Work with the in-house paralegal team to assist in managing the patent litigation budgeting process, including working with colleagues on the finance team.
* Prepare Terms of Engagement with legal vendors. Contribute to the procurement of specialist IP services.
* Assist in the preparation of draft analytical litigation and BD documents, e.g. status reports and updates, legal research, and assistance with disclosure.
* Review, draft, amend and manage execution of standard patent and legal documents such as Powers of Attorney, settlement agreements, and notice letters.
* Work with the discovery team in disclosure exercises and litigation holds; assisting in review of disclosure documents, where necessary.
* Work with General Legal and other general legal paralegals on key department projects to support Legal function. Develop, coordinate and successfully implement various projects to support legal/IP and business unit goals and objectives.
* Analyze and adapt processes in order to improve efficiency and identify administrative processes and/or procedures in need of review and revision to ensure efficient and effective use of resources.
* Perform research as requested using computer and printed resources.