legal
7 hours ago*
Counsel, Intellectual Property
at Maple Drive
📍 United States·🏢 Remote
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Responsibilities
- Guide inventors through the disclosure process and provide clear, business-friendly recommendations on filing, continuation, and abandonment decisions.
- Manage outside patent counsel on patent drafting and prosecution to ensure quality, consistency, and cost-effective outcomes.
- Own core patent operations, including docketing, maintenance, annuities, and improvements to patent intake workflows, tools, and templates.
Requirements
- The Intellectual Property, Marketing & AI (IPAM) team partners closely with Product, Engineering, AI, and business stakeholders to protect Zillow’s intellectual property, enable responsible innovation, and manage legal risk across a fast-moving portfolio of products and services.
- experience who is comfortable working directly with technical stakeholders and enjoys building scalable processes. Product counseling
- experience with AI/ML tools or AI-enabled products is a strong plus and will help you stand out among otherwise strong candidates.
- For candidates with relevant experience, provide product-facing counseling on AI-enabled features, including data, IP, and model-use considerations, and help translate evolving AI and IP rules into practical guidance for product and engineering stakeholders.
- experience at a technology, software, platform, or similarly situated company. You have substantial hands-on
- experience with patent drafting, prosecution, and portfolio management for software and/or AI-related inventions. You have demonstrated
- You have working knowledge of open-source licensing and practical
- You are business-oriented and collaborative, with sound judgment and the ability to calibrate risk, offer practical options, and provide clear recommendations rather than simply issue-spotting.
- You look for opportunities to improve processes and tools, including through thoughtful use of AI where appropriate.
- Experience advising on AI or ML product implementations is a strong plus.
- Comfort spotting and escalating AI-related IP and data issues is also a plus, even if you are not a dedicated AI specialist.
- You have a J.D. with active state bar admission or eligibility for in-house registration.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.