General Counsel

• Support the most senior patent lawyer within IOGC in working with KPMGI business teams and technology developers to: (i) identify proprietary assets developed by them (including with respect to artificial intelligence), (ii) determine the best legal methods to protect such IP assets, and (iii) execute processes for such protection.
• Support the most senior patent lawyer within IOGC with patent application filings in the UK Intellectual Property Office and European Patent Office and working with, instructing and managing external counsel for patent application filings outside of those jurisdictions.
• Support the most senior patent lawyer within IOGC by working with global business teams to identify third parties that may be infringing on KPMGI IP and to enforce KPMGI’s rights in its IP, as well as understanding the potential for member firms to license and monetize such IP rights (separate and apart from their use in KPMG technology solutions).
• Support the most senior patent lawyer within IOGC in understanding the technical aspects of, and business plan for, KPMG-developed technology solutions, and support more senior lawyers in counselling on freedom to operate, intellectual property enforcement, and copyright versus patent versus trade secret protection.
• Assess whether KPMGI has proper IP and data rights to license and/or provide member firms and their clients with use and/or access rights to KPMGI technology solutions.

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