We are looking for an experienced Patent Administrator to assist with the smooth running of patent applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare relevant forms for filing Patent applications around the world, showing excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Prepare and file supporting documentation for filing at various Patent Offices, including using relevant online software where applicable
- Prepare documents and correspondence for clients and overseas agents, with technically challenging content
- Create and process complicated invoices
- Review and action workflow correspondence received from Paralegal the same day as work is received, dealing with urgent correspondence as a priority
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
- Prior experience of Patent administration and / or knowledge of Intellectual Property
- Strong administration experience
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Ability to adhere to strict deadlines
- Produce work to a high level, with attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- The ability to commute to the office on a hybrid basis
Benefits
We pride ourselves on being small and friendly enough for you to get to know everyone – but big enough to offer you great career prospects. At Appleyard Lees you wont feel like a number or just another cog in the wheel, we understand everyone is individual and offer a friendly and supportive place to work and learn.
We also offer:
- 34 hour working week
- Agile working
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Voucher on your birthday and Christmas
- Annual salary review
- Life assurance
- Healthcare cash plan
- Social outings – summer party, Christmas party and more
- Charity events
About Appleyard Lees
Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm with approximately seventy patent and trade mark attorneys and litigators across offices in Halifax, Leeds, Manchester, and Cambridge.
We provide a full range of intellectual property (IP) services covering patents, trade marks, designs and copyright in the UK, Europe and worldwide. We use our technical and legal skills, and many years of experience, to identify and protect IP assets and to uncover and eliminate the risks posed by other people’s IP rights.
Our clients include some of the world’s most exciting innovators, largest companies, and household names, with a number of clients obtaining Fortune 500, Fortune Global 2000, FTSE 100, FTSE 250, and Forbes Global 2000 status. Our clients operate across a diverse collection of industries, including chemicals, retail, consumer goods, electronics, software, bio and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, metals, and heavy industry, higher education, and hospitality, leisure, and tourism.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) has always been part of the core values of Appleyard Lees. To us, diversity is not just a box-ticking exercise, it is a core part of our firm’s values . Diversity of people means diversity of ideas and perspectives, and these allow us to be more creative and flexible as a business.