Intellectual Property Lawyer at a Full Service Law Firm - First Excelsia Professional Services Limited

First Excelsia Professional Services Limited - Our client, a full Service Law Firm, is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Intellectual Property Lawyer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Our client is seeking to fill the role of an Intellectual Property Lawyer who will be responsible for providing legal advice on our business matters, such as patents, contracts, labor agreements, regulatory measures, taxation, and intellectual property rights.
• The ideal candidate will be responsible for researching cases, drafting contracts, developing diverse corporate procedures, managing budgets, ensuring regulatory compliance, drafting codes of conduct, litigating course cases, and facilitating corporate mergers.

Summarized Job Description

• Negotiate and resolve patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret non-litigation disputes.
• Manage trademark opposition matters.
• Manage patent clearance and brand expansion activities, including by working closely with internal and external IP professionals to determine trademark and patent filing strategies.
• Provide legal advice to company departments, subsidiaries, and affiliates.
• Communicate with and direct outside contacts, including outside counsel and consultants, on intellectual property matters.
• Coordinate and communicate efficiently and effectively with the attorneys, legal analysts, litigation assistants and other support staff professionals to ensure all deadlines are met in a timely manner.
• Support attorneys and other case team members in IP cases from the pre-suit investigation through trial phases.
• Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to the various Legal Resources attorneys regarding the handling of transactions, disputes and other legal matters involving intellectual property and including assistance with product claims.
• Assists with or assumes responsibility for other legal projects as assigned.

Person Specification

• Minimum of a BL / LLB.
• Membership of a relevant professional body is strongly preferred (e.g., ICSAN, ICSA, et al).
• At least five (5) years of experience as a practicing intellectual property lawyer in a law firm or in-house legal department.
• Working knowledge of intellectual property laws with a focus on patent, trademark, and copyright law.
• Advanced level of computer literacy, including intermediate to advanced proficiency in MS Excel, with Python and/or data visualization experience a plus.
• Experience with multiple domains of IP practice (e.g., more than one of asset development, risk mitigation, data and analytics, portfolio management, licensing, transactional due diligence, patent and non-patent IP assets/risks).

Application Closing Date
31st January, 2023.