Walmart Inc.
Location
Bentonville, AR | United States
Job description
Provide strategic advice and legal counsel related to Walmart’s trademarks, trade dress, design patents, and copyrights, manage complex global disputes; and work with legal and business stakeholders to find creative solutions for multifaceted issues, while maintaining an acceptable level of legal risk in a fast-paced environment.
The position will be located in Bentonville, AR to support Bentonville business clients. Hoboken, NJ and Dallas, TX will be considered.
About Team: Intellectual Property Center of Expertise
Join the Intellectual Property Center of Expertise within Digital Citizenship as a Senior Counsel, Trademarks. In this role, you will provide advice and counsel to teams across all of Walmart’s businesses. Specifically, you will partner cross-functionally with key business stakeholders as well as subject matter experts throughout Walmart’s legal and compliance organizations.
You’ll make an impact by…
Managing a global trademark portfolio, including trademark clearance, prosecution, enforcement, and licenses
Conducting and reviewing trademark searches
Building and managing a right-sized design patent portfolio
Providing clear and actionable legal counsel on risk analysis and mitigation strategies for trademarks, trade dress, product designs, copyrights and domain names
Preparing and prosecuting domestic trademark, trade dress, and design patents
Managing enforcement of intellectual property rights, domestically and internationally, including cease & desist communications, UDRP, and TTAB proceedings
Drafting and negotiating coexistence agreements, consent agreements, settlement agreements and trademark and other IP license agreements
Providing legal support for trademark, copyright and domain name aspects of deals, licenses, agreements and other transactions including due diligence and review of agreements
Providing legal review and support for generative AI projects
Working with and supervising outside counsel
Training clients on IP principles and corporate policies and procedures
Building and maintaining strong client relationships
Working collaboratively within Legal and with business partners to identify and execute creative and practical legal and business solutions
Advising IP stakeholders on trends and developments in IP law
Working with and supervising the work of trademark paralegals
What you'll bring:
Prior law firm or USPTO experience, additional in-house experience a plus.
Strong business acumen and ability to exercise sound commercial as well as legal judgment.
Ability to prioritize workload and manage multiple competing deadlines; strong organizational skills.
Strategic thinker who can step back and think big picture.
Demonstrated team player.
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Law degree from an accredited law school and 5 years’ experience in law.Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
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