Patent Agent

Our legal team protects Nielsen’s business, products, intellectual property and reputation. The team places a focus on developing excellence and agility while we minimize risk and move the business forward. Whether we’re solving a problem or helping a client achieve their goals, we're creating the best environment possible to advance Nielsen’s reputation, preserve opportunities, and help the business flourish. Nielsen is seeking a non-attorney patent agent to join its Intellectual Property Team on a permanent basis. The Patent Agent will work alongside Nielsen’s engineers, data scientists, and other innovators to continue developing a world class patent portfolio to propel Nielsen’s business goals. The Patent Agent will work alongside colleagues from the Intellectual Property Team to develop a patent portfolio to protect technologies related to: design and operation of audience measurement metering devices; approaches for media recognition and classification leveraging digital signal processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; approaches for scaling and deduplicating audience measurement estimates via fusion of multiple data sets leveraging a variety of data science methodologies; and approaches for assessing audience engagement and advertising impact. This fully flexible role is fully remote/work from home (Midwest or Eastern time zones preferred). Responsibilities include evaluating invention disclosures, drafting and prosecuting patent applications, developing patent strategies, and providing intellectual property support to Nielsen’s engineering and product teams.