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As an Assistant General Counsel - Intellectual Property at Solstice, you will have a significant impact on the company's intellectual property strategy and protection. You will also provide general intellectual property legal advice & services to certain chemicals related businesses within Solstice. With your legal expertise, you will assist in the management of critical patent operations for Solstice. By providing legal counsel and guidance on IP matters, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that Solstice's IP rights are protected and enforced. Your advice will help the business units and senior management make informed decisions regarding patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

Overall, as an Assistant General Counsel - Intellectual Property, your role will have a direct impact on Solstice's ability to protect its innovations, maintain a strong IP portfolio, and drive business growth through strategic intellectual property management. Your contributions will help Solstice stay at the forefront of technology and maintain a competitive advantage in the market.

Responsibilities

+ Provide IP support to the RAS and ESM businesses within Solstice

+ Develop, implement business specific IP strategies

+ Hands-on management of patent acquisition process and portfolio consistent with IP strategy

+ Ensure compliance with trade secret security programs; augment as required

+ Product clearance (FTP)

+ Lead/support (as applicable) transactions involving IP rights including M&A, commercial contracts, JDAs, licensing

+ Proactively monitor industries to identify, assess, abate infringement

+ Litigation related work in support of IP strategy – affirmative, defensive (opposition, IPR, court actions)

+ Client education and advice

+ Management of outside counsel (including patent preparation & prosecution/spend)

+ Advise on copyright and trademark issues; partner with outside counsel and the business to identify and clear trademarks and tradenames, and prosecute trademark applications globally

+ Assist with the management of patent operations for Solstice

+ Develop the annual operating plans (budgets) for IP and manage performance to that plan

+ Maintain quality, cycle times and economy for all aspects of patent acquisition and portfolio maintenance

+ Ensure compliance with all Solstice IP procedures/policy including freedom to practice, new product introductions, enforcement, licensing and IP transactional matters, third party submissions, publication clearance among other, virtual patent marking

+ Perform one-over-one review for critical FTP and other matters as requested

+ Identify quality and efficiency opportunities for the function, recommend & implement appropriate plans including for use of AI

Qualifications

YOU MUST HAVE

+ At least 10 years of substantive experience in intellectual property matters

+ JD from an accredited law school

+ Self-starter with a strong bias for action and ability to drive projects to a close

+ Good business acumen

+ Ability to influence and lead at all levels in a multi-national matrix organization

+ Creative & Innovative

+ Good communicator

WE VALUE

+ Law firm and in-house experience preferred

BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR SOLSTICE ADVANCED MATERIALS

In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Solstice Advanced Materials employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays.

The annual base salary range for this position is $210,800 - 263,500. Please note that this salary information serves as a general guideline. Solstice considers various factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education and training, key skills, as well as market and business considerations.

Solstice Advanced Materials is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.

Solstice is now a publicly listed company on NASDQ (SOLS). Solstice is a global chemicals and advanced materials business with customers in over 120 countries and two major business segments:

**Refrigerants & Applied Solutions (RAS),** a premier manufacturer of low global warming potential refrigerants, blowing agents, solvents and aerosol materials. RAS serves the end markets of cooling, air conditioning and refrigeration, automotive, energy, building and appliance insulation and healthcare.

**Electronic & Specialty Materials (ESM),** a leading provider of electronic materials, high-strength fibers and laboratory life sciences chemicals. ESM primarily serves customers in semiconductor, defense, pharmaceutical and construction end markets.

About Us

About Solstice Advanced Materials

Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more. Solstice is recognized for developing next-generation materials through some of the industry's most renowned brands such as Solstice®, Genetron®, Aclar®, Spectra®, Fluka™, and Hydranal™. Partnering with over 3,000 customers across more than 120 countries and territories and supported by a robust portfolio of over 5,700 patents, Solstice’s approximately 4,000 employees worldwide drive innovation in materials science. For more information, visit Advanced Materials (https://advancedmaterials.honeywell.com/us/en) .

**Job Identification** 106113

**Job Category** Legal

**Job Schedule** Full time

**Locations** 115 Tabor Rd, Morris Plains, NJ, 07950, US

**Hire Eligibility** Internal and External

**Relocation Package** None

**Pay Transparency** New Jersey: $233000-$292000