Trademark Docket Clerk

Location
Roseland, New Jersey
Salary
Not Provided
Posted
Sep 27, 2024
Closes
Oct 27, 2024
Ref
249
Practice
Trademark
Contract Type
Permanent

Who We Are:  

Lowenstein Sandler is one of the most sophisticated law firms in the United States, with over 375 lawyers and 300 business services professionals serving clients from offices in New York, Palo Alto, New Jersey, Utah, and Washington, D.C. We recruit candidates who seek a collaborative, entrepreneurial culture that prioritizes our clients, our colleagues, and the communities where we work and live. Committed to career development and to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, the firm offers many programs and opportunities for personal and professional growth. We seek professionals for our business services group who share these values.

What You Will Do: 

This position will sit in our Roseland, NJ office and currently offers a hybrid remote work opportunity.

Essential Job Requirements:

  • Docket and maintain deadlines relating to all phases of trademark prosecution and enforcement matters in trademark docketing system.
  • Review all incoming correspondence received in trademark inbox from USPTO, foreign associates, attorneys and paralegals and perform essential docketing functions.
  • Prepare comprehensive portfolio, docket and status reports for circulation, as needed, to attorneys and clients.
  • Facilitate incoming/outgoing transfers of trademark portfolios.
  • Assist with recording changes in title, owner, address, and counsel, as appropriate.
  • Support paralegals with trademark maintenance (extensions, renewals, use filings, etc.) by reviewing docket, using established forms to prepare and send correspondence to clients about upcoming deadlines, filing basic maintenance forms in the USPTO.
  • Prepare written communications to foreign associates, attorneys and clients during screening, filing, prosecution and maintenance of domestic and foreign trademark applications and registrations.
  • Prepare estimates relating to domestic and foreign trademark tasks such as, but not limited to, searches, filings and global assignment projects.
  • Save official communications and emails to firm’s document management system.
  • Prepare formal documents (power of attorney, assignments, etc.) and coordinate client execution/legalization of the same as needed.
  • Assist with diligence searches, research assignments and administrative projects, as needed, and prepare reports in connection therewith.

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

  • Working knowledge of CPi or other trademark docketing software is required.
  • Experience navigating trademark office websites (TEAS, TSDR, TTAB, WIPO, TMView)
  • Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college is preferred.
  • 3 plus years of law firm experience is preferred.
  • Must be detail-oriented and have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proficient in Microsoft software products with Excel skills preferred.
  • Enjoy working with a team.

 

Office Location: Roseland, NJ

Schedule: Full-time, Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Amount of Travel Required: None

 

Disclaimers:

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities required by employee. 

Lowenstein Sandler LLP is not accepting resumes from search firms for this position. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms are to be deemed the sole property of Lowenstein Sandler LLP, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Lowenstein Sandler LLP as a result of the referral.

Lowenstein Sandler LLP is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. 

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