Job Description

IP Administrator - Patents

Department: Patents - Support

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Halifax

We are looking for an enthusiastic IP Administrator to join our Halifax office. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your IP experience, within a supportive and knowledgeable team.

Key Responsibilities

Prepare forms for filing patent applications, ensuring excellent accuracy and attention to detail
Prepare and file supporting documentation at various Patent Offices, using relevant online systems where required
Prepare documents and correspondence for clients and overseas agents, with technically challenging content
Create and process invoices, including complex invoices
Review and action workflow correspondence, prioritising urgent deadlines
Work collaboratively across teams, undertaking a variety of tasks as required

Skills Knowledge, and Expertise

Strong administration skills with a process-driven, detail orientated approach
Experience in IP Administration/Formalities advantageous
Excellent analytical, organisational and time management skills
Ability to produce high-quality work efficiently and to strict deadlines
Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team

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 won't 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, Monday - Friday
Agile working
A supportive and friendly place to work and learn
Annual salary review
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Holiday Purchase Scheme
Salary Exchange
Life assurance
Healthcare Cash Plan & Wellbeing App
Group Income Protection
Long Service Milestones
Social outings
Vouchers on Christmas, Birthdays and Special Occasions
Charity events

About Appleyard Lees IP LLP

Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm, with over seventy patent and trade mark attorneys and litigators.

Who we are, and what we do – but also, how we do it – makes us distinctive.

Our commercially intelligent approach to client service incorporates flexibility and adaptability. We strive to be agile, to respond to specific client requirements in a way that suits them.

We help a broad range of IP owners and creators, including in-house teams, R&D specialists, owner-managers and branding professionals, protect and monetise their intellectual property. We also support clients manage post-grant challenges, should they arise.

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.

In addition to our catalogue of multinational and multimillion-pound clients, Appleyard Lees is equally proud of the role we have played in the growth of start-up businesses.

The firm recruits the very best professionals who have a passion for their individual areas of specialism and supports staff throughout their career development. Providing expert training, we ensure our staff can deliver outstanding service.

With offices in UK innovation hotspots, we are positioned to give clients expert strategic IP advice in the UK and worldwide.

Industry

Legal & Compliance

Company Size

51-200 employees

Headquarters

Halifax, GB

Year Founded

1852

Website

appleyardlees.com

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