IP (Patents) Disputes Senior Associate

Role profile

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Associate with an entrepreneurial mindset to join our ambitious, rapidly growing and award-winning IP team in London to focus on our Patents Disputes practice, particularly within the life sciences and technology sectors.

The practice

Our IP team is one of the most dynamic and fast-growing practices in the market, renowned for acting in high profile, high value IP litigation with an international element. We are regularly act in litigation in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Unified Patent Court (UPC) on a range of matters encompassing patents, designs, copyright, passing off, and trade mark infringement.

In patents disputes, we act for some of the world's leading companies in the life sciences, telecommunications and digital business sectors, on cases that are shaping the legal landscape. We successfully represented Amgen in UK and UPC litigation brought by Alexion, for which we were recognised by the Managing IP Awards for European Impact Case of the Year, as well as acting in three landmark FRAND cases in UK Supreme Court: Unwired Planet v Huawei, Optis v Apple and Tesla v Avanci.

Our sector-focussed approach ensures that we have deep, specialist expertise in the industries in which our clients operate and a thorough understanding of the commercial and technical issues that they face.

The strength of our practice is reflected in our strong and rapidly rising directory rankings: we are ranked Band 2 for Patent Litigation and Band 2 for Intellectual Property in Chambers & Partners (as well as Band 1 for Law Firms With Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys), Tier 2 in Legal 500 for patents (contentious and non-contentious), and Tier 2 in Managing Intellectual Property for Patent Disputes.

The team

The London IP team is led by Arty Rajendra, leading practitioner in IP litigation, and is currently made up of 9 Partners, 12 qualified lawyers, 2 Trainee Solicitors, and 5 Paralegals. It's a tight collaborative team working across all IP rights with a friendly, non-hierarchical and supportive atmosphere.

Technical skills and experience

This role will work primarily with Will James, Tim Harris, and Trevor Crosse on pharma and biotech patent matters, as well as Arty Rajendra and Luke Maunder on the technology and FRAND side. Thus the role would suit someone who does not want to be pigeon-holed and wants to work on a variety of IP matters. There is also an opportunity for the right candidate to work on IP transactions in addition to their main diet of IP litigation. Knowledge and experience of UK patent litigation gained at a firm with a strong reputation in this area is essential, and studies/qualifications in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, immunology, engineering, computer science or similar fields would be highly beneficial.

We are looking for a Senior Associate who understands the process of taking a patent action from initial instructions all the way through to trial, and who will drive matters forward.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress;
• high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure;
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues;
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

You will be encouraged and supported in strategic business development activities to grow your own network and practice, as well as working as part of an international team on firm initiatives including pitches, client development, attending IP and sector focussed events and speaking at conferences.

Our recruitment process

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations . Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

AtOsborne Clarkewe value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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