AGC - Intellectual Property at Coherent Corp.

, , China -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

04 Sep, 26

Salary

100000.0

Posted On

06 Jun, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Patent Strategy, Intellectual Property Law, Freedom To Operate Analysis, Patent Prosecution, Mandarin Chinese Fluency, English Fluency, PRC IP Law, Technology Transfer, Portfolio Management, Infringement Analysis, Outside Counsel Management, Invention Harvesting, Trade Secret Protection, Export Control Compliance, Commercial Agreements, Technical Fluency in Optics

Industry

Semiconductor Manufacturing

Description

Duties & Responsibilities Strategic Business Partnership & Patent Strategy * Serve as embedded IP business partner; attend engineering, product, roadmap, and sales reviews on a recurring cadence. Develop deep technical fluency to engage substantively. * Drive patent claim strategy designed to read on competitor products and roadmaps; lead competitive teardowns and reverse-engineering with engineering and outside vendors. * Conduct infringement and FTO analyses; set filing, continuation, and abandonment strategy aligned with business objectives. * Identify monetization opportunities: SEP declarations and licensing, assertion campaigns, defensive cross-licensing, and divestiture candidates. * Triage non-IP legal issues and route to appropriate L&GA SMEs while owning the IP workstream end-to-end. Portfolio Management, Risk & Commercial Support * Direct and supervise outside counsel on U.S. and foreign drafting, filing, and prosecution; manage budgets and quality; draft personally for strategically critical inventions. * Lead invention harvesting; coach inventors; adopt AI tools across invention identification, prior art / FTO search, drafting, and analytics. * Support patent litigation and pre-litigation matters; lead clearance and FTO for new products and acquisition targets. * Support IP aspects of commercial agreements (NDAs, JDAs, supply agreements, licenses, M&A diligence). PRC-Specific Responsibilities * Primary L&GA point of contact for IP in the PRC: manage CNIPA filings, prosecution, and outside counsel relationships in China. * Manage technology-localization decisions for Chinese-developed inventions (PRC-first vs. global filing); structure filings and disclosures to minimize cross-border legal and regulatory friction. * Coordinate with trade compliance on PRC and U.S. export-control, technology-transfer, and dual-use considerations. * Advise on patent-vs.-trade-secret decisions, employee/contractor controls, and PRC IP assignment practices; support "high-technology entity" (高新技术企业) status maintenance. * Conduct IP training, invention harvesting workshops, and competitive-landscape sessions at PRC sites; travel within the PRC as needed. Technical Domain Focus * Telecommunications: coherent optical transmission, WSS, ROADMs, and related long-haul / metro network technologies. * Advanced optics: precision components, specialty fiber, optical coatings (telecom, defense, industrial, instrumentation). * Semiconductor optoelectronics: EMLs, DMLs, VCSELs, photodetectors, modulators; wafer-level processes, epitaxial growth, and device packaging. * Optical transceivers and datacom: 400G / 800G / 1.6T, co-packaged optics, linear-drive and linear pluggable optics for AI / hyperscale data centers; DSP and driver/TIA electronics where they intersect. Qualification & Requirements * Operates as a true business partner — not a service provider — with strategic mindset on patents as competitive and monetization instruments. * Advanced verbal and written fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English; able to draft and negotiate in both languages. * Deep familiarity with PRC IP, trade secrets, employment, and technology-export regulatory environment; pragmatic handling of cross-border IP and tech-transfer. * Strong outside-counsel and project management across geographies; able to operate independently as on-the-ground L&GA presence in the PRC while staying tightly connected to the global IP function. * Operates as a true business partner — not a service provider — with strategic mindset on patents as competitive and monetization instruments. * Advanced verbal and written fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English; able to draft and negotiate in both languages. * Deep familiarity with PRC IP, trade secrets, employment, and technology-export regulatory environment; pragmatic handling of cross-border IP and tech-transfer. * Strong outside-counsel and project management across geographies; able to operate independently as on-the-ground L&GA presence in the PRC while staying tightly connected to the global IP function. Culture Commitment Ensure adherence to company’s values (ICARE) in all aspects of your position at Coherent Corp.: Integrity – Create an Environment of Trust Collaboration – Innovate Through the Sharing of Ideas Accountability – Own the Process and the Outcome Respect – Recognize the Value in Everyone Enthusiasm – Find a Sense of Purpose in Work Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components. We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth. Come Join Us! Note to recruiters and employment agencies: We will not pay for unsolicited resumes from recruiters and employment agencies unless we have a signed agreement and have required assistance, in writing, for a specific opening.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary IP business partner for PRC business units, managing patent strategy, FTO analyses, and monetization opportunities. Oversee CNIPA filings and coordinate cross-border legal and regulatory friction for telecommunications and advanced optics technologies.