IP Specialist
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support all areas of patent prosecution from preparation and filing of new patent applications through allowance, and all prosecution filings in between.
- Maintain attorney docket to monitor PTO deadlines, client deadlines, and attorney calendars to ensure that action due dates are timely met.
- Schedule appointments for timekeepers, organizing, updating and maintaining electronic filing systems of professional, administrative and prosecution case files.
- Prepare client reporting letters.
- Maintain current knowledge of U.S. filing procedures and rules relating to patent prosecution.
- Keep abreast of firm and client procedures.
Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in an IP legal secretarial role.
- Experience and/or education in patent prosecution is required.
- Proactive, with ability to anticipate attorney and client needs.
- Superior communication and writing skills.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills, including the ability to resolve conflicts with minimal direction.
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects.
- Possess a high degree of professionalism and confidentiality.
Salary range: $35.00 to $47.00/hour, based on experience. The firm offers many benefits, including 401k, medical insurance with prescription coverage, HSA, FSA, dental insurance, vision insurance, EAP, group and supplemental life insurance, long-term care, STD, LTD, individual disability income protection, critical illness, accident, pet and legal insurance, onsite parking.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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