About RayzeBio:
RayzeBio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative radiopharmaceutical therapeutics for cancer patients. Leveraging advanced technology, RayzeBio aims to improve the lives of people with difficult-to-treat cancers through unique, targeted therapies. The company’s pipeline features several promising candidates, and its team is passionate about scientific excellence, collaboration, and patient impact. RayzeBio seeks a patent attorney to assist in developing global IP strategies and managing day to day intellectual property efforts to support multiple programs in pre-clinical/clinical development. The desired candidate will be responsible for a wide range of intellectual property related matters with an emphasis on patent preparation, prosecution, and strategic counseling.
Role Responsibilities:
- Provide comprehensive IP legal support for small molecule radiotherapy programs
- Develop and implement advanced IP strategies to protect BMS's innovations and support business goals.
- Prepare and prosecute patent applications, including drafting, filing, and managing responses to office actions on a global level.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration efforts working closely with R&D, regulatory, commercial, and other departments to achieve project milestones.
- Reviewing and approving scientific and clinical publications
- Advising internal clients on a wide range of intellectual property related matters
- Conducting strategic IP analysis and due diligence, including analyzing third-party patent portfolios
- Perform freedom to operate and patentability analysis
- Communicate and align with external collaborators and strategic partners on global IP strategy
- Providing transactional support for intellectual property matters related to clinical trial agreements, licenses, and
- Manage the use of outside legal counsel globally
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least 8 years of **small-molecule patent** prosecution experience, preferably in pharmaceuticals, and a mix of law firm and in-house experience is preferred
- Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
- Juris doctor and admission to practice law in any US state or the District of Columbia, admission in California preferred
- Degree in chemistry (advanced degree or industry experience with radiopharmaceutical or peptide chemistry is preferred)
- Experience in patent drafting, U.S. and foreign prosecution, management of global IP portfolios, and IP due diligence
- Ability to independently oversee legal matters, instruct and work with other patent professionals, manage the use of outside legal counsel, and work collaboratively with research and business leads
