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.
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