Intellectual Property Clerk

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Intellectual Property Clerk
The Clerk will directly assists legal assistants and attorneys in the research, preparation, and organization of materials for filing patent and trademark applications with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and filings with Courts. Duties include: Performing daily clerical tasks, including: opening, processing, and scanning incoming mail, preparing outgoing mail (FedEx, UPS, USPS), copying, creating and saving electronic documents, importing electronic documents into our electronic file management system, maintaining and updating client information and inventorship data in our electronic file management system, maintaining inventory of office equipment and supplies, and performing other administrative duties and projects as assigned; preparing legal documents directly related to patent prosecution under attorney supervision, including: preparing and filing initial and supplemental Information Disclosure Statements, and preparing and filing legal documents to establish Power of Attorney; reporting USPTO correspondence to clients; performing patent prosecution-related research, including: retrieving patent application status information from USPTO, searching and obtaining non-patent literature from the Internet, and retrieving foreign patent publications and search reports from the World Intellectual Property Organization database; performing proofreads of patent applications; preparing legal documents and coordination directly related to filings and discovery in litigation matters under attorney supervision; performing reception duties, including: greeting clients, vendors, and answering/transferring phone calls on a multi-line phone system. Will perform tasks that involve working with electronic legal files on multiple computer screens and will primarily correspond with staff/attorneys over a computer network.

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