Patent Counsel

Individual contributor route

Technical or professional depth, without managing people.

1. Patent Counsel InternIC0Optional developmental level
2. Associate Patent CounselIC1
3. Patent CounselIC2
4. Senior Patent CounselIC3
5. Lead Patent CounselIC4
6. Principal Patent CounselIC5
7. Senior Principal Patent CounselIC6

Management route

Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.

This family has no management ladder.