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Description

Position Summary:

This position provides support to the IP and Litigation and other Departments who engage in trademark prosecution work. They shall possess a mastery of technical and administrative skills, assume responsibility with minimal supervision, exercise initiative and judgment to make decisions within the scope of their assigned authority, work individually and as part of a team, and practice collaboration with firm employees in all offices. This is a remote, part-time (20 hour per week) position. It is an ongoing contract with no set end date.

Essential Functions:

• Works with attorneys, paralegals and legal administrative assistants to ensure that trademark matters are addressed in a timely and efficient fashion.

• Maintains docketing databases for all domestic and foreign trademark prosecution and dispute matters including accurately entering, monitoring and clearing deadlines in a timely manner as well as scanning and attaching relevant trademark images and documents. Accurate Docketing in two systems is required.

• Reviews and determines actions and due dates from various types of communication regarding domestic and foreign trademark filing (including communication with foreign correspondents), prosecution, renewal and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board matters.

• Reviews various websites to ascertain status of foreign and domestic trademarks.

• Ensures the integrity of the trademark database by performing quality review of docketed events and review docket records for consistency and completeness.

• Prepares regularly scheduled (i.e., monthly, weekly) and specially requested docket reports for clients, attorneys, paralegals and their legal administrative assistants on a timely basis.

• Prepares custom reports to track issues such as open deadlines and audits of recently docketed items.

• Responds to inquiries from clients, attorneys, paralegals and legal administrative assistants relating to docket and deadline issues in a timely fashion.

• Dockets domain names with renewal dates and other relevant information. Reviews domain name websites to determine status of domain names.

• Manages trademark files, including set-up of files for new marks.

• Assists with the integration of trademark files transferred from other firms including entry of relevant data into the docketing database.

• Attends firm required training and education programs.

Technical Skills

• Exhibits knowledge of docketing software, preferably Anaqua, WebTMs and/or CPI

• Displays knowledge of legal terminology, legal documents and legal processes specific to trademarks.

• Ability to use computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) set up functions, enter data or process information.

• Demonstrates a high degree of proficiency in the firm’s computer applications and document management system, including but not limited to MS Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint), Nuance, Adobe PDF, FileSite, Elite, Workday and other practice area databases, as appropriate.

Requirements

Required Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent; college or business school certificate a plus.

• Previous Trademark docketing experience working in a law firm or corporate legal department.

• Working knowledge of Trademark docketing procedures.

• Experience with U.S. and foreign trademark filings.

• Ability to work beyond the standard scheduled hours as needed.

• Previous experience working in a law firm or legal environment preferred.

• Able to multitask without loss of efficiency or accuracy.

• Demonstrated technology skills including software applications.

• Ability to exercise independent judgement, reason logically and make sound decisions.

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