Corporate Counsel (Santa Clara) - NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies. The company creates innovative, industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. The NVIDIA® brands include GeForce®, Tesla™, and Quadro®. These product families are transforming visually-rich and computationally-intensive applications such as video games, film production, broadcasting, industrial design, financial modeling, space exploration, and medical imaging.
Additionally, NVIDIA invents and delivers industry-shaping technologies, including NVIDIA SLI™ technology, a revolutionary approach to scalability and increased performance; and NVIDIA PureVideo™ high-definition video technology.
Position Summary
This is a mid - level attorney position responsible for providing legal services with principal focus on supporting one or more business groups . This attorney will have more broadly defined responsibilities supporting the company’s transactional team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Serve as a primary point of contact on legal matters originating from one or more business organizations
• Manage commercial contracting activities for such business organizations, including drafting and negotiating world wide commercial terms for sale of hardware and software products, inbound and outbound hardware supply/license agreements, sales distribution agreements, all manner of marketing agreements, including joint marketing, and sponsorships, and marketing legal review of communications.
• Provide commercially relevant legal counsel and training to one or more business organizations in areas such as commercial law, privacy, copyright, antitrust/competition law, advertising/consumer protection law, intellectual property law
• Implement appropriate processes and policies to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations and to avoid disputes
• Assist in dispute resolution and management
• Prepare and provide training to clients in supported business organizations

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
• Approximately 3-8 years of applicable commercial contracting experience, ideally with some direct experience supporting business organizations (combined law firm and in-house experience preferred)
• Exceptional communication skills written and verbal, organizational abilities and proven attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a team environment
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and produce quality work product in a fast-paced, stimulating environment
• Demonstrated excellent business judgment and the ability to form strong working relationships with demanding internal clients while maintaining firm adherence to proper legal standards
• Prior experience with technology company with international operations a plus
• Software licensing experience desired
• A sense of humor and commitment to professionalism
• Excellent academic credentials
• J.D. and California Bar membership

About the Legal Department:

NVIDIA’s legal department currently includes 10 attorneys, 5 of whom are Directors (2 in the Patent group, 1 in Sales/Marketing, 1 in Corporate and 1 in Asia). They are assigned to cover different areas of the company’s businesses and functional groups, and work in a collaborative virtual team network. All attorneys are based in Santa Clara and support the Company worldwide, except for one Director who is based in Japan and covers the offices in Asia. The attorneys strive to be the trusted advisors of their business partners and are closely in synch with them as they help them accomplish the business objectives in a legally compliant way.

Firm Biographies

Jen-Hsun Huang co-founded NVIDIA Corporation in April 1993 and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become one of the largest fabless semiconductor companies in the world. NVIDIA has received numerous business and technology awards during Mr. Huang’s tenure, including Fortune’s Fastest Growing Companies, Wired Magazine’s Top 40, and Stanford Business School’s Entrepreneurial Company of the Year. Mr. Huang has served on the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation since 1999 and is often invited to speak on technology and business trends at industry events. Prior to founding NVIDIA, Mr. Huang was Director of Coreware at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Huang holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Oregon State University and an M.S.E.E. degree from Stanford University.

David Shannon joined NVIDIA in August 2002 as Vice President and General Counsel, leading the Company’s legal and intellectual property initiatives. He became Secretary in 2005. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mr. Shannon held various counsel positions at Intel Corporation for a period of nine years, including the most recent position of Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. Mr. Shannon also practiced for eight years in the law firm of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, focusing on complex commercial and high-tech related litigation. Mr. Shannon holds an undergraduate degree and a law degree (with honors) from Pepperdine University.

Kimberly Winer joined NVIDIA in April 2006 as a Director. She is responsible for legal support for WW Sales, Marketing, and Emerging Businesses. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Ms. Winer held several counsel positions at Sun Microsystems for a period of seven years in their hardware, software and microprocessor divisions. She also practiced for several years in the Los Angeles offices of Graham & James, where she specialized in intellectual property disputes and transactions. Kimberly holds an undergraduate degree from Florida State University (summa cum laude) and a law degree from Loyola Law School (Order of the Coif).

Interested candidates should send their resumes, in Microsoft Word format, to the MLA recruiter who contacted you, or if you learned about the position in some other way, to NVIDIAcorp@mlaglobal.com.

City Santa Clara
State CA
Country USA

MLA Job ID: 358420
Position Type: InHouse
Min Experience (yrs): 3
Listing Office: San Francisco
Contact Name:
Email Address: Nvidiacorp@mlaglobal.com
Location: Santa Clara, CA

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Candidates will:
• Direct, review and manage case development, discovery and trial strategy (this is a hands-on role);
• Manage the outside counsel selection process and act as a point person for outside litigation counsel;
• Develop and execute litigation, settlement and licensing strategy;
• Forecast future legal expenses and manage current legal expenditures; and
• Train and supervise junior in-house lawyers in litigation, including motion and brief writing, claim construction, witness preparation for deposition and trial, etc.

Candidates will also have the opportunity to supervise and manage the contract review team, manage the trademark portfolio and negotiate and draft license agreements. Depending on interest, candidates may also broaden their skills in the areas of securities, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions.

Requirements:

• 5-8+ years patent litigation experience at a top national law firm well-known for patent litigation;
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• Engineering background helpful. Must at least have a high comfort level with technology.
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• Demonstrated commitment to in-house role.

Why this is a great opportunity:

• The position offers a great deal of responsibility and autonomy;
• This is the perfect chance for a patent litigator to branch out and gain experience in areas such as licensing, corporate governance, M&A and securities and other areas of litigation; and
• There is an opportunity for upward career advancement.

Legal Department:

The legal department is headed up by GC, Joe Lin (J.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1993), who is based in Santa Clara, CA. Mr. Lin joined O2 Micro as General Counsel in July 2002. Prior to O2 Micro, Mr. Lin was Vice-President, Corporate Development and General Counsel at Silicon Genesis Corporation, a pre-IPO wafer process company. Mr. Lin has worked with high technology companies for over seventeen years both as a lawyer and briefly, as an engineer. Prior to his roles as General Counsel, Mr. Lin practiced with Morrison & Foerster LLP specializing in corporate, securities and licensing and with Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor and Zafman focusing in patents. The legal department has additional offices in Asia and totals 27 employees.

Current IP Litigation:

O2 Micro has on-going IP litigation, with which the successful candidate will become immediately engaged.

The Company (from Hoover’s):

Oh to make mobile microchips like O2Micro does! O2Micro International makes integrated circuits used in mobile products such as cell phones and notebook computers. Its products include energy-saving chips that connect a computer’s microprocessor to plug-in cards, chips that let a notebook computer play a CD without powering up the main processor, products that manage and maximize battery usage, and inverters for converting battery power for use by LCDs. O2Micro’s products have been used by equipment makers such as Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, and Siemens. The fabless semiconductor company is domiciled in the Cayman Islands but derives most of its sales from customers in Asia.

We don’t mean to suggest that O2Micro is litigious — is that an injunction in your pocket? — but the company did spend more than $10 million on patent litigation in 2005, nearly double what it spent on legal fees the year before. (O2Micro also spends prodigiously on R&D to generate all those patents, at more than $25 million a year.) The company is carrying on litigation to protect its interests in Taiwan and the US. O2Micro has about 175 issued patents, with more than 400 patent applications pending around the world.

O2Micro International’s principal chip-making contractors are Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), and X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries. Wasatch Advisors owns about 17% of O2Micro International. FMR (Fidelity Investments) holds 15% of the company. Capital Research has an equity stake of around 9%, while RS Investment Management owns nearly 6%. The company has approximately $500 million in market capitalization and $160 million in revenues for 2007. Over 1000 employees worldwide work at O2Micro.

City Santa Clara
State CA
Country USA
Web Address www.o2micro.com
MLA Job ID: 358434
Position Type: InHouse
Min Experience (yrs): 5
Practice: IP Licensing, IP Transactions, IP Lit-Enforcement, Intellectual Property
Listing Office: San Francisco
Email Address: o2micropatent@mlaglobal.com
Location: Santa Clara, CA

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City Deerfield
State IL
Country USA

MLA Job ID: 3389
Position Type: InHouse
Min Experience (yrs): 5
Practice: Patent, Intellectual Property
Listing Office: Chicago
Contact Name: Paul Williams
Email Address: bbell@mlaglobal.com
Location: Deerfield, IL

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