The Role
The role involves assisting in patent strategy development, managing patent portfolios, drafting legal documents, conducting legal research, and supporting special projects. It requires collaboration with engineering teams and clients, focusing on patent filings and maintaining patent relevance.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Primary Duties:
- Assist with identification and creation of patent strategy and goals;
- Participate in educational programs for local engineering team and management on best patent company;
- Manage patent portfolios, including (a) review of invention disclosures, (b ) review/analysis of preliminary patentability research, (c), in coordination with clients and outside counsel, review, file, and/or instruct on filing in China, foreign patent applications and manage the resulting prosecution, and (d) review issued patents with clients for relevance and maintenance fee payments or abandonment;
- Draft formality documents, attend to document legalization, comply with priority document requirement, assist with legal document execution including use of notaries and apostilles;
- Coordinate the signatures of legal documents in accordance with a defined process including arrangements with notaries and apostilles;
- Legal research;
- Assist with special projects;
- Create, generate, compile, and edit reports, presentations, and spreadsheets, including an ability to analyze and process multiple sources of data;
- Provide other support and perform other duties as assigned from time to time.
PRIMARY LOCATION
Adient Asia Holdings
The Company
What We Do
Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 77,000 employees in 32 countries, Adient operates 202 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into more than 19 million vehicles every year.
