Experienced IP/Marketing Counsel Seeks New Position, Preferably in South Florida

Former Senior IP/Marketing Counsel at Burger King Corporation, the Dannon Company and Altria (Kraft Foods and Philip Morris companies) seeks law firm or corporate position. Prefer South Florida location but will consider working remotely or relocating for the right opportunity. Known for protecting and enforcing international portfolios for well-known brands, including Burger King, Whopper, Have It Your Way, Oreo, Ritz, Chips Ahoy!, Tang, Jell-O, Dannon and Blockbuster. Successfully reduced in-house IP budgets and managed outside IP and litigation counsel. Proficient in negotiating and drafting a broad spectrum of legal agreements. Professional demeanor with excellent communication skills who builds strategic partnerships with clients that foster loyalty, cooperation and future business. Send inquiries to John L. Welch to arrange for an introduction.

TTABlog Job Posting: Highly Experienced IP Attorney Seeks New Position

An attorney with fifteen years of experience creating, and serving as head of, the intellectual property group for one of the country’s largest companies, spearheading Internet enforcement for a major law firm, and teaching cutting-edge intellectual property in law school, seeks a position with a corporation or law firm. His practice has ranged from bringing in-house a global portfolio of over 10,000 trademarks to negotiating and drafting multimillion dollar intellectual property transactions to assessing new technologies for secondary copyright liability to traveling to China to implement a comprehensive product review process. Many days, he relishes the more routine side of practice, such as performing trademark clearances, handling domain name disputes, clearing music rights, and drafting licenses, nondisclosure agreements, and publicity releases. He is never happier than when training clients, including more than 2,000 employees in one two-year span, cutting through the jargon and entertaining them with the never dull world of intellectual property. On the side, he enjoys writing commentaries that air regionally on NPR. He is open to creative employment arrangements that would allow him to exercise his passion for intellectual property, leverage his business experience, and, if working for a firm, give him a platform to develop his corporate network with innovative approaches based on his in-house experience.

Please send inquiries to John L. Welch (jwelch at lalaw.com) to arrange for an introduction.