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About the Opportunity Our corporate client is looking for a Patent Paralegal to provide legal administrative expertise by ensuring that key aspects of global patent application filing, prosecution, and maintenance processes are accomplished in an accurate, timely, and appropriate manner.

Introduction Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

We are actively seeking a Patent Paralegal located anywhere in the United States with the following qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as an IP paralegal or other front-line IP support role, including experience with most aspects of patent support.
• Experience working effectively across a large portfolio in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities is critical.
• Experience with docketing best practices and protection of Intellectual Property rights.
• Proficient and experienced with Outlook, MSOffice programs, legal software, or docketing programs (e.g., Anaqua).
• General knowledge of United States, EP, and PCT patent rules and practice.
• Experience with electronic research tools and patent prosecution filing systems, including experience electronically filing US, PCT and/or foreign patent applications, office action responses, inventor declarations, and assignments.
• B.A. or B.S. degree, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry, preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication, facilitation, and project/stakeholder management skills.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

Support our multinational corporate client on the following:

• Proactively manage, anticipate, and act upon actions related to patent dockets for all aspects of the patent lifecycle, inclusive of patent/prosecution filing, cited reference coordination, formalities, record creation and maintenance, and decision workflows.
• Engage with internal and external patent professionals across the spectrum (attorneys, agents, and paraprofessionals) to ensure seamless filing, prosecution, and maintenance of patents and applications and to continuously improve and develop departmental best practices.
• Research complex fact patterns, lead troubleshooting investigations, problem-solve, and produce reliable work product within own or across work groups.
• Lead small projects, or guide more complex patent project activities, inclusive of informing or developing task lists or action plans, assisting in coordinating resources, and serving as a resource, to drive progress and ensure effective implementation and stabilization.
• Demonstrate deep technical knowledge and influence across IP industry rules and regulations; anticipate and assess potential impact of industry changes on departmental and business unit strategies, policies, and processes.

Benefits

• Predominately remote/hybrid work.
• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement.
• 401(k) with company match
• PTO and paid federal holidays.
• Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (as applicable)

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.