Ip Support Services Paralegal

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Ip Support Services Paralegal
The candidate will be responsible for providing IP-related docketing and paralegal services to customers and delivering excellent support in alignment with our customer-centric culture. Primarily, staff are expected to manage docketing of documents and other key information against IP Matters on behalf of customers but the role covers a broad range of additional responsibilities, some or all of which may be applicable depending on the scope of customer-specific tasks involved. Act as a representative of the company by answering customers' inquiries, proactively resolving issues, anticipating needs and identifying potential risks for internal and external customers. Develop and maintain a working knowledge of domestic and international intellectual property office rules and procedures. Process incoming and outgoing domestic and international communications in docketing databases. Maintain customer docket and run reports as appropriate and correspond internally and externally regarding deadlines and status of applications. Create and maintain files within a database that documents prosecution history for an intellectual property matter, including unfiled matters, file intakes and file transfers. May prepare and review incoming documents for scanning. Prepare documents for signature and collaborate with customer contacts to fulfil requirements of various patent offices as requested, including but not limited to: Intellectual Property applications (domestic and international), Information Disclosure Statements (IDS), formalized priority claims, formal documents such as ADS, Power of Attorney, PCT forms and other forms as needed. Review office actions and other communications from patent offices and prepare preliminary drafts of responses as requested and Information Disclosure Statements when applicable. Routinely review and file prosecution related documents with the USPTO for all stages of prosecution. Also coordinate and facilitate timely instructions to foreign agents in order to meet deadlines for non-US patent or trademark prosecution deadlines. Calculate estimates of filing costs in collaboration with management. Obtain copies of patents and articles for IDS per customer’s instructions. Manage physical documents on behalf of customers as per their directions including but not limited to filing of incoming documents and retrieving and sending requested documents to customers. Remain accountable for work product by performing ongoing self and peer reviews. Assist in development and maintenance of up-to-date customer-specific processes and procedures. Document and track daily work and provide corresponding data to management. Follow the out of office procedures and advise management of outstanding work; serve as backup to team members. Ensure compliance with CPA Global’s Code of Business Ethics and Corporate Conduct Other duties as assigned.

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