Intellectual Property Attorney

HP; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance programme

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Flexible paid vacation and sick leave

Job summary

HP is seeking an Intellectual Property Attorney to support HP's global patent portfolios. The role provides strategic counsel on IP matters, identifies legal risks, and partners with engineers and cross-functional teams to advance technology development and risk management.

The successful candidate will work independently on moderate to high complexity matters and contribute to portfolio reviews and legal strategy.

Qualifications

• Qualified Patent Attorney (US/Europe)
• Technical degree in a closely related technical field
• 4–7 years of legal IP experience in high-technology environments
• In-house or advisory experience with global tech companies preferred

Responsibilities

• Guide invention disclosures and patent strategy with R&D teams
• Manage and advise on patent portfolios across technologies or business units
• Oversee filing strategy, prosecution, maintenance and abandonment decisions
• Coordinate with outside counsel on prosecution, portfolio, and IP transactions
• Draft and review IP-related agreements and licenses
• Lead complex IP matters and contribute to strategic plans

Skills

Patent portfolio management

IP licensing constructs

Negotiation

Team collaboration

Legal risk assessment

Legal research and analysis

In-house experience

Standard setting knowledge

Education

Technical degree (EE/CS/Physics)

Job description

Description -Job Summary
HP is seeking an Intellectual Property Attorney to support strategic development, optimisation, and transactional use of HP's global patent portfolios. This role provides specialised legal advice and strategic counsel in intellectual property matters, identifies legal risks, and partners with engineers, business stakeholders, and cross‑functional legal teams to advance HP's technology development, commercialization and risk management objectives. This position is in and will report into HP’s global IP team.
The successful candidate will combine strengths in patent portfolio strategy and management, IP related transactions and negotiations, and operational excellence. The role is expected to work independently on moderate to high complexity matters, contribute to projects that impact multiple teams, and share speciality knowledge across the legal organisation.

Patent Portfolio Strategy and Management

• Partner with R&D teams to guide invention disclosures and patent strategy toward high‑value, business‑aligned outcomes.
• Manage and advise on assigned patent portfolios across defined technologies or business units, including invention harvesting, filing strategy, prosecution oversight, maintenance, and abandonment decisions.
• Apply legal judgement to portfolio optimisation by evaluating patent family strength, remaining term, geographic coverage, enforceability, competitive relevance and business alignment.
• Manage outside counsel on prosecution, portfolio, transactional and speciality matters, ensuring quality, efficiency and alignment with legal strategy.
• Prepare and present portfolio reviews, strategic recommendations, written reports, legal memos and risk assessments for internal stakeholders.
• Monitor speciality‑specific changes in laws, regulations, industry practices and standards‑related developments to help keep patent portfolio practices current.
  

IP Related Transactions

• Advise on and negotiate key IP terms, including licensed patent scope, fields of use, exclusivity, prosecution and enforcement rights, confidentiality, indemnification, termination, ownership and commercialisation rights.
• Draft, review and as needed negotiate IP‑related agreements, including supplier and customer agreements with patent or IP provisions as well as patent licences, cross‑licenses, technology development and collaboration agreements.
• Coordinate with commercial attorneys and other legal specialists to integrate IP provisions into broader business agreements.
• Support IP due diligence by mapping patent portfolios to products, technologies, standards and transaction objectives.
  

Specialty Leadership

• Identify, analyse and resolve complex intellectual property legal issues using sound judgement and creative problem‑solving.
• Lead or contribute to moderate to high complexity projects, and deliver clear written analyses and support operational and strategic plans.
• Attend and participate in relevant workshops, seminars and training sessions to deepen speciality expertise and share knowledge with other team members.
• Contribute to the management of litigation or dispute‑related matters.
  

Qualifications And Relevant Experience

• Qualified Patent Attorney (e.g. US or European).
• Appropriate technical degree (preferably in electrical engineering, computer science, physics or a closely related technical field).
• 4‑7 years of legal experience supporting IP in a high‑technology environment, preferably including experience providing IP legal support for global R&D teams and businesses.
• Team player with excellent collaborative and influencing skills.
• Strong understanding of applicable patent laws, patent portfolio management, IP licensing constructs, IP ownership and corresponding risk mitigation.
• Experience with standard setting, standard organisations and standard essential patents.
• Prior in‑house experience at a global technology company or law firm experience advising global technology companies.
• Experience supporting IP‑sensitive transactions involving customers, suppliers, partners, competitors, M&A, joint development or government‑funded development.
  

Impact and Scope

• Impacts multiple teams and may act as a team or project leader by giving direction to team activities and facilitating information validation and team decision‑making.
• Works on difficult and complex problems where analysis of situations, data, legal risk and business context requires thoughtful evaluation of multiple factors.
• Supports realisation of operational and strategic plans through clear advice, well‑managed legal processes and professionally communicated work product.
  

The pay range for this role is $147,050 to $190,000 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job‑related knowledge, skills and experience.

Benefits

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4‑12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview
  

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The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Disclaimer

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge or requirements. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Job -

Legal

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -

25%

Relocation -

No

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

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