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Company
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
Location
Taiwan
Career Area
Legal
Job Type
Manager / Executive
Employment Type
Regular
Posted
Mar 19, 2025
Established in 1987 and headquartered in Taiwan, TSMC pioneered the pure-play foundry business model with an exclusive focus on manufacturing its customers’ products. In 2023, the company served 528 customers with 11,895 products for high performance computing, smartphones, IoT, automotive, and consumer electronics, and is the world’s largest provider of logic ICs with annual capacity of 16 million 12-inch equivalent wafers. TSMC operates fabs in Taiwan as well as manufacturing subsidiaries in Washington State, Japan and China, and its ESMC subsidiary plans to begin construction on a fab in Germany in 2024. In Arizona, TSMC is building three fabs, with the first starting 4nm production in 2025, the second by 2028, and the third by the end of the decade.
Job Responsibilities
1. Coach inventor to enhance invention disclosure quality
2. Review patent applications prepared by outside counsel
3. Investigate technology trend for competition analysis
4. Promote patent activities and support patent disputes
Job Qualifications
1. Master degree and above, major in law or Chemistry, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Materials Science, or Physics.
2. At least 5 years of patent prosecution experience in a law firm, a corporation, or the patent office.
3. Preferable with semiconductor experience as an engineer or a patent professional.
4. Excellent writing and verbal communication skills in English.
5. US patent attorney or agent is preferable.
6. Team player, and self-motivated.