Ip Paralegal - Washington, United States - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Description
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, a global Am Law 50 firm, is seeking an experienced IP Paralegal to join our Intellectual Property Practice Group.
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Responsibilities:
- Manage the docket
- Prosecute infringements
- Research across patent databases
- Ensure that clientmatter numbers are opened according to the Firm's guidelines.
- Timely review and forward annuity and maintenance fee information to the annuity team, and send foreign attorney invoices to the accounting department.
- Prepares supporting documents for attorneys including, but not limited to, the following:
- US formal documents, including Declarations, Assignments, and Powers of Attorney
- US prosecution papers, including Information Disclosure Statements, SB08's, Responses to Missing Parts, Responses to Office Actions, Petitions, Issue Fee papers, and other USPTO forms
- Reporting, reminder and instruction correspondence to clients
- Instruction correspondence to foreign associates
- Patent Status Charts
- Works with Docketing Paralegal and attorneys and agents on managing the dockets and advising of deadlines; prepares and distributes docket or other status reports as directed
- Coordinates Sequence Listings, Formal Drawings and Legalization of Documents with outside vendors
- Works with supervisor and other patent staff on forms, prosecution manual, or other processes associated with Patent Practice Management
- Performs special projects as assigned, particularly IP Due Diligence projects.
- Records time for billing and statistical purposes
- Performs any and all other duties as necessary and as assigned by your supervisor for efficient functioning of the Department, Office, and Firm
Essential Functions of Job:
- Establishes and maintains patent files: open files, prepares formal documents for filing, including, abstracts, drawings and preliminary amendments.
- Review and manage files and docket for deadlines, understand docket and deadlines and action needed on each file
- Assist in patent filing strategy discussions and due diligence
- Communicate with appropriate attorneys and team members about docket
- Act as a single point of contact for the client and providing assistance with incoming files to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Prepare and file Information Disclosure Statements; Ensuring timeliness, accuracy and consistency in work product
- Maintain accurate daily time records for client billing purposes
Qualifications and Experience
_Required Qualifications:
_At least 5+ years working as a Patent Prosecution Paralegal.
Education
_Required:
_Bachelor's Degree or 5+ years of relevant work experience in an Intellectual Property setting.
License and Certification
_Required:
_ABA Approved Paralegal Certificate
Computer/Software Knowledge
_Required:
_Microsoft Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel
_Preferred:
_First to File and FoundationIP
Work Environment
- Overtime will be required on occasion as the workload requires.
Travel Requirements
Up to 10% travel occasionally to nearby office if based in San Francisco or Silicon Valley.
- California: The pay range for this position is $51.00 to $76.00 per hour._
- We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance._
- Sheppard Mullin is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, protected medical condition, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law._
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