Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property

GEICO • Chevy Chase, MD

134d • $166,050 - $260,350

About The Position

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. GEICO seeks an intellectual property (IP) lawyer to join its in-house Legal department. Your focus will be on supporting the development of GEICO’s patent portfolio; you will also support the valuable GEICO brand, support our engineers with respect to open source, advise the company on IP strategy, and be responsible for diverse IP issues as needs arise. It is an exciting time to be at GEICO. GEICO has been building world-class engineering and product organizations, and is rapidly advancing its strategies with respect to user experience (UX) / user interfaces (UI), artificial intelligence (AI), and other technology areas. This role will provide you an opportunity to have a big impact in support of GEICO’s increased focus on innovation. You will be a member of GEICO’s IP team, which is a part of GEICO’s technology law organization that is responsible for privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and IP.

Requirements

• J.D. or LL.M. degree from an accredited law school.
• Active license to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction.
• Registration as patent attorney with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
• Undergraduate degree in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering, or significant professional experience with software.
• At least five years of experience practicing intellectual property law, with significant experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications.
• Deep understanding of patent law, in particular patent eligibility (35 USC 101), as applied to software.
• Interest in learning and growing professionally, and willingness take on projects and responsibilities in new (to you) areas.
• Ability to work autonomously, but also interest in cultivating collaborative working relationships with colleagues in the Legal department and internal clients.

Nice To Haves

• In-house legal experience.
• Professional experience in a technical field, e.g., as a software engineer.
• Experience with open source software, design patents, trademark practice, UDRP actions and online brand enforcement, patent freedom to operate studies, IP litigation, IP licensing, and IP support for commercial transactions.

Responsibilities

• Conducting invention harvesting sessions, making patent filing decisions, and managing outside patent counsel for effective patent application drafting and prosecution.
• Delivering IP trainings to software engineering, UX/UI design, product, and business teams.
• Developing strategies for managing risk with respect to third party IP and managing IP disputes.
• Managing outside trademark counsel for effective filing and prosecution of trademark applications and renewal of trademark registrations.
• Engaging in IP enforcement efforts, including addressing unauthorized online uses of GEICO’s trademarks.
• Supporting GEICO engineering with respect to open source licensing and open source community participation.
• Developing and enhancing IP-related corporate policies.
• Advising the company on IP issues.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree