Patent Administrator in City – c£40k
- Recruiter
- Law Support Limited
- Location
- London (City of), London (Greater)
- Salary
- c£40k + Benefits
- Posted
- 05 Jan 2017
- Closes
- 02 Feb 2017
- Ref
- JB10534
- Job Title
- Paralegal
- Practice Area
- Intellectual Property, Patent / Trademark
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Patent Administrator in City – c£40k
Are you an experienced Patent Administrator, Patent Paralegal or Patent Secretary? Looking for a new, exciting opportunity at one of the leading IP firms in the City?
Our client is a top tier Patent & Trade Mark firm with a large London office and several other offices in the South East.
What they are looking for is a Patent Administrator (or paralegal/secretary) to join their City team who has at least 2-3 years’ experience and the confidence to take on a busy, autonomous role.
You must be familiar with Inprotech/EPOline and be comfortable with billing systems and ideally be CIPA qualified.
Duties will include;
- Draft letters, emails and other correspondence
- Draft template letters to go with search reports.
- Audio/copy typing and amendment
- Maintain files electronically using our document management system.
- Preparing various Patent Applications and Formalities documents, updating of Inprotech where necessary.
Reviewing and managing short, medium and long term deadlines with fee earner - Enter new and miscellaneous Patent and Design files onto IPT.
- Abandon pending Patent and Design records as instructed by earners.
- Check grant certificates before sending to Clients.
- Ability to do all routine actions eg. Instruct payment of EP fees through EPOline, needing only occasional assistance for unusual actions.
- General updating of records system as required, including but not limited to recording changes of name, assignment and references.
- Draft correspondence for reporting foreign Patent and Design publications to clients.
- Validating EP cases in the UK
- Preparation of invoices, credit and debit notes
- Adjusting WIP, including adding items and reducing or removing items, applying client-specific discounts, presenting information according to any client-specific requirements, etc.
- Arrange meetings, travel and itineraries for those fee earners who require such assistance.
For more information or to be considered please contact us ASAP