Operations Director, SPBM
Microsoft 365
Associate - Legal Operations Support
Eli Lilly and Company
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $57,750 - $129,800 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Provide legal administrative expertise for global patent application filing, prosecution, and maintenance processes
- Manage patent dockets across patent lifecycle including filing, prosecution, cited reference coordination, formalities, record creation and maintenance, and decision workflows
- Engage with internal and external patent professionals to ensure seamless filing, prosecution, and maintenance of patents and applications
- Anticipate and research complex fact patterns, lead troubleshooting investigations, problem-solve, and produce reliable work product
- Integrate with peers and business units; communicate or escalate barriers or unmet support needs
- Lead small projects or guide complex patent project activities; assist in coordinating resources and serve as a resource to drive progress
- Assess impact of IP industry changes on departmental strategies, policies, and processes
- Engage other resources as needed to fulfill responsibilities
- Employ organization skills and verbal/written interactions with legal colleagues, inventors, business clients, international law firms, vendors, and external parties
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree
- 5+ years of experience in a front-line IP support role, including experience with most aspects of patent support
- Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis (Lilly will not sponsor work authorization/visas)
- Commitment to data integrity, attention to detail, troubleshooting, problem-solving, strong reading comprehension and proofreading skills
- Proven prioritization, organization, and typing/writing/verbal communication skills
- Ability to self-manage and establish/meet deadlines, and provide oversight for vendor-provided services
- Customer service orientation, strong interpersonal skills, flexibility, and a productive attitude
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and deadlines, and adapt to frequent changes in priorities
- Proficient and experienced with Outlook, Internet Explorer, MSOffice, legal software, or docketing programs (e.g., Anaqua) (preferred)
- Experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry (preferred)
- Paralegal certificate from ABA approved program (preferred)
- Experience with docketing best practices and IP protection
- Experience coordinating execution of formality documents, including obtaining signatures, notarization, apostille, legalization
- General knowledge of US, EP, and PCT patent rules and practice
- Experience with electronic research tools and patent prosecution filing systems; electronically filing US, PCT and/or foreign patent applications, office action responses, inventor declarations and assignments
- Excellent oral and written communication, facilitation, and project/stakeholder management skills
- Professional demeanor, sound judgment, and ability to maintain confidentiality
