Intellectual Property Counsel/patent Attorney

2 days ago

Wellington, New Zealand Xero Full time

**What you'll do...**:

- Support legal and business teams in identifying and resolving intellectual property aspects of legal matters, including both business-led and IP team-led initiatives, and including both global and region-specific matters.
- Partner with our Product and Technology teams to provide early IP advice and grow our pipeline of new invention disclosures.
- Provide engaging and empowering training to our Xeros on IP topics.
- Provide support in matters involving third party patent rights including assisting with copyright licensing and litigation matters.
- Assist the legal team and extended business with day-to-day IP queries.
- Working with the GM - Intellectual Property, drive and support the further development and maturation of internal intellectual property, data, and AI governance programmes.
- Help evaluate the impact of evolving legislative and regulatory environments for intellectual property, AI, and cyber on Xero’s various business units, ensuring the business is informed.
- Collaborate and build relationships with key internal stakeholders to champion intellectual property, AI, and cyber across the business while continuing to enable commercial opportunities in a fast-paced environment.
- Contribute to internal intellectual property, data protection, and AI policy and process development (including training).
- Drive and support operational legal team projects, for example to manage workflow, improve operational efficiencies, knowledge management.

**Experience...**:

- Registered or near registered Patent Attorney with 4-6 years experience.
- Experience, or a degree, in computer science/programming, physics, or related fields.
- A law degree is desirable, but not critical.
- Experience or strong demonstrated interest in global approaches to data governance frameworks, including AI governance (desirable).
- Experience providing legal advice to companies in the technology sector (desirable)

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