Senior Director, Intellectual Property Counsel

 

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, Canada, and Sweden.  For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio. 

Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease.  At Lantheus our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success.  Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone’s health is in our hands.  We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team. 

Summary of Role:

Lantheus is searching for a Senior Director of IP - Asset Strategy.  This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly collaborative, experienced legal team of an established Nasdaq-listed radiopharmaceutical-focused company. We are looking for an experienced IP attorney in the pharmaceutical industry to play a key role in supporting the Company’s future growth strategy and core mission to find, fight and follow serious diseases working cross-functionally as we grow pipeline to bring exiting new products to patients.

The successful candidate can look forward to building strong relationships across the organization, “plugging into” cross-functional information flows and workstreams to understand corporate strategy and business objectives and bringing their legal and technical expertise and strategic thinking to proactively create, expand, enforce, defend and monetize the Company’s intellectual property portfolio and pipeline and commercial strategy, while identifying and mitigating risks in the evolving field of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence solutions.

We are looking for a highly strategic attorney with 10 - 13+ years of relevant pharmaceutical/biotech industry intellectual property legal experience to join the Lantheus Legal Department as Senior Director of IP Asset Strategy responsible for providing practical, solution-oriented legal and strategic advice relating to our IP portfolio. Candidates should have experience managing a wide range of IP matters and providing pragmatic counsel to in-house business partners.

This position will report to the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel IP and will be based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

This attorney will be a part of multidisciplinary project teams and engage with colleagues at all levels of the organization to understand all aspects of the business to enable them to implement effective IP strategies for the portfolios they oversee, proactively solicit invention disclosures, and educate colleagues on Lantheus’ IP strategy, while actively participating in agreement negotiations and other transactional work.

This position is currently expected to work out of the Company’s Bedford, Massachusetts executive offices at least three days per week (typically Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) and as otherwise necessary.

Key Responsibilities:

Partnering with and advising all levels of the organization, identifying opportunities to expand and safeguard the Company’s intellectual property and managing and mitigating intellectual property risk within our growing portfolio, including:

• Strategically managing an intellectual property portfolio for both in-licensed and owned IP to maximize the value and utility of Lantheus’ assets worldwide, including:
• oversight of worldwide preparation of prosecution of patent and trademark applications,
• building the Company’s patent portfolio by meeting with inventors and collaborators and reviewing their submissions, coordinating invention mining and ideation sessions, and partnering with senior colleagues to develop and execute practices that drive a proactive, business-oriented patent program,
• managing patent applications throughout the patent lifecycle by working directly with the inventor community and outside patent prosecution counsel to ensure high-quality patent applications for strategically important inventions,
• coordinating with outside counsel and search providers to conduct patent landscape studies and synthesizing the results to facilitate actionable decisions by providing insights into the competitive landscape, technology trends and patent portfolios,
• formulating policies and guidelines for patent related issues, such as creating toolkits for non-IP attorneys and non-legal business clients, improving portf