IP Docketing Paralegal
Trueline
Senior IP Admin Analyst, Trademark
Clarivate
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Arizona
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Senior
About the role
- Provide filing & prosecution support through docketing and paralegal services to customers
- Interact with internal and external stakeholders in a virtual, highly matrixed and global environment
- Support new team members with process training, query support, and quality checks
- Maintain customer dockets and run reports; correspond internally and externally regarding deadlines and application status
- 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 for non-US trademark prosecution deadlines
- Manage, create and maintain documents for customers (scan, file, retrieve, send requested documents, file intakes and transfers)
- Prioritize docketing/de-docketing requests and facilitate timely filing of applications and responses
- Develop and maintain working knowledge of domestic and international intellectual property office rules and procedures
- Assist in establishing policies and procedures to ensure quality improvement and meet customer expectations
- Document and track daily work in time-tracking system within prescribed deadlines and SLAs
- Liaise with all areas of the business as defined to meet customer expectations and service levels
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience
- 1+ years of trademark docketing experience
- Experience in Microsoft Suite: Outlook, Word and Excel
- Familiarity with Memotech, Foundation IP, The IP Management System, Inprotech, or IPFolio (3+ years preferred)
- U.S. and foreign patent docketing, filing & prosecution experience (preferred)
- Paralegal certificate from an ABA approved program (a plus)
- Position subject to U.S. export control requirements under the EAR and ITAR
