About this role
Role Overview
- Providing filing & prosecution support through docketing, paralegal services, Recordals, Information Disclosure Statements (IDS), and/or reference management to customers
- Interacting with internal and external stakeholders, expresses ideas, organizes and delivers information appropriately in a virtual, highly matrixed and global environment
- Plans and organizes tasks and work responsibilities to achieve objectives
- Adheres to organizational policies and procedures
- Process incoming and outgoing domestic and international communications in IP management software
- Routinely review and file prosecution related documents with the USPTO for all stages of prosecution
- Coordinate and facilitate timely instructions to foreign agents in order to meet deadlines for non-US patent or trademark prosecution
- Manage, create and maintain documents on behalf of customers
- Prepare documents for signature and collaborate with customer contacts to fulfill requirements of various patent offices as requested
- Maintain customer docket and run reports as appropriate and correspond internally and externally regarding deadlines and status of applications
- Develop and maintain a working knowledge of domestic and international intellectual property office rules and procedures
- Assist in establishing policies and procedures to ensure quality improvement efforts will meet or exceed internal and external customer needs and expectations
- Document and track daily work in time-tracking system within prescribed deadlines and SLA’s
- Liaise with all areas of the business where/when defined to meet customer expectations
Requirements
- Associate's degree or equivalent relevant work experience
- 1+ years of patent paralegal and docketing experience
- Experience using IP management software
- Experience in Microsoft Suite: Outlook, Word and Excel
- 2+ years of experience using Memotech, Foundation IP, IP Manager, The IP Management System, Inprotech, or IPFolio is a plus
- U.S. and foreign patent docketing and trademark filing & prosecution experience is a plus
- A paralegal certificate from an ABA approved program is a plus
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- prescription drug
- life insurance
- 401k with match
- long term disability coverage
- vacation
- sick time
- volunteer time
- discount programs