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Patent Agent

3 months ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Li-Cycle Corp Full time

Job Summary:


Reporting to the Manager of Technology Strategy, the Patent Agent, will be responsible for growing, protecting, and leveraging Li-Cycle's IP (Intellectual Property) portfolio including patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.


Primary Responsibilities:

  • Working directly with Li-Cycle's Manager of Technology Strategy to execute the company's IP strategy
  • Growing and managing Li-Cycle's intellectual property portfolio by:
  • Closely interacting with the Li-Cycle organization to extract new ideas, evaluate and prioritize those ideas
  • Working with inventors to draft, file, and prosecute patent filings
  • Completing regular IP portfolio reporting to Li-Cycle Executive Leadership Team
  • Managing relationships with external providers (e.g., IP counsel)
  • Initiating and overseeing workstreams intended to enhance/protect Li-Cycle's IP position
  • Collaborating with internal stakeholders to anticipate future business, competitive and legal risks, and opportunities, and developing tailored IP solutions
  • Interfacing with other members of the Technology Leadership team and broader Technology organization to describe Li-Cycle's IP strategy and initiate projects in support of the strategy
  • Developing internal IP best practices and providing IP awareness training to other teams as required
  • Ensuring that expenditures are maintained within budgetary limits

Job Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience in a law firm and/or inhouse setting, with experience in high tech industries such as hydrometallurgy, recycling, or batteries strongly preferred
  • Registered patent agent
  • Experience drafting and prosecuting patent filings required
  • Strong business acumen and the ability to creatively resolve business issues
  • Ability to manage outside counsel and other external resources
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
  • Flexibility, willingness, and ability to take on diverse tasks
  • Ability to facilitate and contribute to collaborative decisionmaking processes and work effectively on crossfunctional teams
  • Interest in innovation, sustainability, safety, and quality
  • Strong work ethic

Core Competencies:

  • A handson contributor with a desire to work in a dynamic, missiondriven environment
  • Ability to deal with sensitive topics in a tactful, diplomatic, and professional matter at all times.
  • Highlevel of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and resultsorientation
  • Proactive selfstarter with an 'owner's mindset'
  • Consistently delivers quality work on time, with a strong attention to detail
  • Strong analytical, negotiation and creative problemsolving skills
  • Exceptional oral communication, writing and editing skills
  • Motivated, methodical, and optimistic