Paralegal and Legal Assistant Instructor teaching courses at Northwest Career College. Responsible for preparing exams, attending meetings, and assigning grades.
About the role
- Patent Prosecution Legal Assistant in a leading intellectual property law firm. Supporting attorneys with client management and U.S. patent application processes.
Responsibilities
- Provides client management support for attorney, not limited to written and verbal communications with clients along with maintaining docket and client specific procedures.
- Assists attorney in prosecuting patent applications in the United States and various foreign countries.
- Establishes and maintains patent files: opens files, prepares documents for filing including, patent applications, Preliminary Amendments, Information Disclosure Statements, Responses to Missing Parts, Assignments, Amendments, payments of Issue Fees, etc.
- Reviews all incoming correspondence from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign associates for essential docketing.
- Maintain clients’ portfolios by being proactive in facilitating communication between attorney and client.
- Maintains and updates docketing log spreadsheet.
- On-going verbal and written communication with attorneys, clients and foreign associates.
- Other administrative tasks and projects as may be assigned.
Requirements
- BA degree and/or paralegal certificate or minimum of 5 years experience in U.S. patent prosecution.
- Familiarity with electronic case management systems and USPTO rules and requirements. IPFolio, Memotech, etc. is a plus.
- Familiarity with the prosecution of U.S. Trademark applications a plus.
- Ability to work comfortably with advanced computer software (after training) and effectively use and maintain a computer database.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) required.
- Possible use of speech-to-text transcription software.
- Ability to work independently and meet critical deadlines under supervision of attorney.
- Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and complete them under time constraints.
- Ability to concentrate on detailed work for up to 80% of work day.
- Interpersonal skills necessary in order to communicate and follow instructions from a diverse group, including clients, attorneys and others, and to provide information with ordinary courtesy and tact.
- High level of responsibility, dedication and accuracy required.
- Work on rare occasions requires more than 37.5 hours per week to perform essential duties of the job; may occasionally require irregular hours.
- Regular attendance at work.
Benefits
- competitive salary
- comprehensive benefits package that includes employee medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) match, and ten firm holidays
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