Job: DTS — Senior Technology Licensing Attorney

· Provides legal services at the direction of the General Counsel or other group lead, to one or more of the Company’s business units.

· Draft and negotiate license agreements pertaining to Company’s consumer electronics business – in particular the home audio, automotive, professional products, PC, broadcast, mobile devices and entertainment markets.

· Draft and negotiate miscellaneous business contracts.

· Provide Legal support for enforcement of the Company’s IP assets.

· Manage the Company’s litigation and settlement efforts associated with its IP assets

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

· Contract Drafting, Review & Negotiations                       65%

· Assist in IP compliance matters                                      10%

· Assist in general litigation matters                                   10%

· Miscellaneous and special projects                                15%

Competencies:

·         Ability to independently draft and negotiate complex licensing and other business contracts. 

·         Thorough knowledge of contract law, and understanding of intellectual property and transactional law in California.

·         Expertise in Intellectual Property technology licensing.

·         Expertise in IP compliance/enforcement

·         Material experience in litigation management

·         Ability to quickly develop expertise in specific legal areas and jurisdictions when the situation arises and apply them.

·         International business experience

Education and/or Experience:

· Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited United States law school.

· Admission to the California or other US State Bar.

· Transactional attorney with 6+ year’s technology, consumer electronics, telecommunication or software industry experience.

· Experience in a sophisticated in-house legal environment.

· Minimum 6+ years transactional and IP licensing experience as an in-house lawyer with a company or at a law firm with substantive client interaction.

· Material IP compliance experience.

· Material litigation management experience.

· Broader General Counsel experience a plus