Senior Intellectual Property Counsel at Lattice Semiconductor in Chennai

Job description

Lattice Overview There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality. Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for. Job Description: What Will You Get to Do? Are you an intellectual property professional who thrives at the intersection of firmware, silicon, and business strategy? Do you want to help build and protect the IP foundation of a leading platform software and programmable semiconductor company with global reach? Our portfolio spans platform firmware, system management, and infrastructure security software for cloud, AI, and data-center systems, together with low power FPGAs and programmable logic. As Intellectual Property Counsel based in India, you will work closely with engineering and product marketing across two core areas: protecting the company’s innovation by capturing inventions and securing patent and other IP protection, and supporting the business by drafting and negotiating the technical contracts and statements of work that power our development, partner, and customer relationships. You’re Good At – The Ideal Candidate Has Extensive Experience With the Following: Invention Identification and IP Strategy: Partnering with engineering and product marketing to identify and evaluate inventions, assess patentability and business value, and decide what, where, and how to protect innovation through patent filings and other forms of IP, aligned to product roadmaps and company objectives; Worldwide Patent Counsel Management: Selecting, directing, and managing outside patent counsel and foreign associates across all major jurisdictions to prepare and prosecute the company’s patent filings, owning filing strategy, quality, timelines, docketing oversight, and cost to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes worldwide; Freedom-to-Operate and IP Risk: Directing freedom-to-operate, clearance, and patent-landscape analyses and invalidity and non-infringement opinions through outside counsel, monitoring competitive patent activity, and advising teams on managing risk and designing around third-party rights; Technical Contracts and Statements of Work: Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating the full range of technical and commercial agreements, including statements of work (SOWs), master service, development, and collaboration agreements, non-disclosure, evaluation, and license agreements, and supplier and vendor contracts, structuring IP ownership, licensing, and confidentiality terms to protect the company while enabling the business; IP Portfolio Operations and Governance: Keeping the internal portfolio well managed by maintaining accurate IP records and docketing oversight, running inventor recognition and awards programs, preparing portfolio reporting and metrics for leadership, and supporting IP goal setting and budget planning so the portfolio stays aligned with business priorities; Broader IP Protection: Overseeing the company’s trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights, advising on open source software license obligations (GPL, LGPL, MIT, BSD, Apache 2.0, and others) as they apply to hardware, firmware, and platform software products, and managing IP considerations in the company’s participation in industry standards bodie