Intellectual Property Specialist II
Job Description
Our legal team protects Nielsen’s business, products, intellectual property and reputation. The team places a focus on developing excellence and agility while we minimize risk and move the business forward. Whether we’re solving a problem or helping a client achieve their goals, we're creating the best environment possible to advance Nielsen’s reputation, preserve opportunities, and help the business flourish.
Nielsen is seeking a non-attorney patent agent to join its Intellectual Property Team on a permanent basis. The Patent Agent will work alongside Nielsen’s engineers, data scientists, and other innovators to continue developing a world class patent portfolio to propel Nielsen’s business goals.
The Patent Agent will draft patents protecting technologies related to: design and operation of audience measurement metering devices; approaches for media recognition and classification leveraging digital signal processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; approaches for scaling and deduplicating audience measurement estimates via fusion of multiple data sets leveraging a variety of data science methodologies; and approaches for assessing audience engagement and advertising impact.
This fully flexible role is fully remote/work from home (Midwest or Eastern time zones preferred).
Responsibilities:
• Drafting provisional and non-provisional utility patent applications in-house.
• Working directly with inventors and colleagues to evaluate invention disclosures.
• Prosecuting patent applications in-house under supervision of IP portfolio managers both in the United States and in certain foreign jurisdictions by providing direct instructions to outside counsel foreign associates, including interviewing patent examiners, drafting and reviewing office action responses, drafting and reviewing appeal briefs, and all other phases of patent prosecution.
• Assisting in developing patent strategies that focus patent protection on competitively differentiated features of Nielsen’s products, including working with IP portfolio managers and Nielsen’s product owners to ensure alignment between Nielsen’s business stakeholders and patent strategy.
• Providing intellectual property support to Nielsen’s engineering and product teams related to its tech portfolio, including invention mining, patent training, and conducting patent audits of Nielsen’s products to identify existing and planned patent coverage and also identify patent whitespace for further IP development.
Requirements
Department: Legal & Compliance
Function: Legal
Experience Level: Not Applicable