Job Description
What are my tasks?
Support of the patent professionals in the operational and strategic patent work (decision-making and pre-employment)
Working with DV-Tool "IPAS" (operating system for electronic file management in the patent department) using the given input masks, document templates and deadlines, in particular:
Supervision of the official time limits of the Patent Professional (PP) and independent processing of selected deadlines or preparation of work for the PP for the completion of the deadlines
On request by the PP preparation of the procedural situation of a file and brief summary for the PP
File system and file management in electronic and in paper form
Compilation of parallel proceedings and / or known state of the art for IDS or corresponding documents, transmission to the competent lawyer (eg US, CN, IN, MX)
Processing of the correspondence with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the German Federal Patent Court and the European Patent Office (EPO) in German and English using the document templates in IPAS and checklists
Compilation of all required decision documents for the different support processes in ESP + (eg for the evaluation of an invention declaration, request for continuation, continuation requests, maintenance)
Processing correspondence with national attorneys
Orders to external attorneys (preparation of order documents, correspondence in case of inquiries, after return and consultation with the responsible internal patent professionals formal revision of the documents)
Writing by dictation (patent applications, notices, etc.) in German and English.
Graphical optimization of PowerPoint presentation templates as well as creation of simple powerpoint presentations by hand sketches
Organization of colloquiums / meetings (planning, catering, etc.) and business travel
Creation of lists / statistics under guidance
Conducting searches on the Internet (procurement of patents)
General secretarial tasks
What do I bring with me?
Completed 3-year apprenticeship as a patent attorney
First job experience in a patent attorneys office or industrial patent department
Good knowledge of relevant Office applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
Teamwork, commitment, self-initiative and forward-looking, structured work