Senior Legal Counsel - Intellectual Property, Enterprise Patents

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary
CVS is seeking an experienced and business-minded intellectual property attorney to manage its growing patent portfolio and trade secrets in a fast-paced environment and advise on technology-related legal issues. In addition to developing and executing strategies for CVS’s patent portfolio, this attorney will be responsible for supporting a wide range of other intellectual property matters including invention harvesting, patent prosecution, patent litigation, intellectual property aspects of technology agreements, acquisitions, AI governance, and open source governance and licensing.

This attorney will counsel and educate business leaders and technology teams across CVS’s innovative businesses on patent, trade secret, and other technology-related intellectual property matters, including providing periodic reports to senior management regarding the status and direction of the company’s patent strategy.

Major Responsibilities

• Invention Harvesting: Collaborate with inventors, business leaders, and R&D and technology teams to identify strategic areas for patenting, identify and develop potentially patentable inventions, and evaluate inventions for patentability and strategic value.
• Patent Portfolio Management: Develop and implement strategies for building and maintaining a strategic patent portfolio that aligns with the company’s business objectives, including making recommendations regarding filing, continuations, foreign filing, and maintenance decisions.
• Patent Prosecution: Oversee and manage outside counsel in drafting and filing patent applications, responding to office actions, and maintaining patent assets, while ensuring prosecution strategy aligns with business objectives and portfolio strategy.
• Patent Clearance: Conduct and/or manage freedom-to-operate analyses to assess potential patent risks associated with product development and commercialization, including patent landscape analyses, evaluating claim scope and validity, and advising on risk mitigation strategies.
• Patent Litigation and Disputes: Provide legal advice and support regarding patent litigation matters and disputes, including strategy development, risk assessment, and coordination with external counsel.
• Technology Agreements: advise internal legal and business stakeholders on intellectual property aspects of technology agreements, including reviewing and drafting intellectual property provisions relating to ownership, licensing, development, software, and technology.
• Trade Secrets: Advise business and technology teams on the identification, protection, use, and disclosure of trade secrets and other confidential proprietary information.
• Intellectual Property Training: cultivate an IP-aware culture by counseling and educating internal partners on intellectual property issues, including patents, trade secrets, clean room development, and open source software licensing.
• Open Source Governance: work cross-functionally with security and engineering teams to implement and refine existing open source governance policies and procedures for the use, publication, contribution, and management of open source software within the enterprise.
• AI and Emerging Technology: Advise on intellectual property issues arising from artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, including issues relating to inventorship, ownership, training and use of AI technologies, and protection of AI-related innovations.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a wide range of intellectual property legal matters, focusing primarily on patent, trade secret and information technology law.
• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
• Membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
• Degree or equivalent experience in a technical field, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
• Strong patent portfolio building and invention harvesting skills, including the ability to efficiently manage outside counsel in the drafting and prosecution of new and pending patent applications and related filings.
• Experience with transactional matters, including intellectual property licensing, technology agreements, and intellectual property aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions.
• Ability to shape and execute intellectual property strategies to support business goals using sound, practical judgment and good business sense
• Ability to collaborate and serve as a strategic business partner, with strong analytical, problem-solving and project management skills, and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Superior written and oral communication skills, including excellent presentation skills.
• Passion for innovative technology and a desire to help grow CVS’s patent portfolio as the company plays a leadership role in developing technology in the healthcare space.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years in-house experience managing a patent portfolio, including advising business and technology teams on new inventions, processes, and products.
• 1+ year of transactional experience negotiating and drafting IP provisions in agreements, including vendor contracts and/or joint development agreements.
• 1+ year of experience with open source software (OSS), including reviewing OSS licenses for software development and use and advising internal stakeholders on contribution of source code to open source projects.
• Experience with AI, machine learning, data processing, and/or software patents and related intellectual property matters.
• Experience advising on trade secret protection and technology-related intellectual property matters.
  

Education
Bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering, computer science, or other relevant technical field, or equivalent technical experience, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.

Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$175,100.00 - $334,750.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/04/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.