Job Description

Job Description

Exciting opportunity to put your patent prosecution knowledge to use in a great law firm as an IP Legal Secretary! You will have the opportunity to work fully remotely after training. You must live in the DC area.

You will provide administrative and patent prosecution support to the Firm's Electrical/Mechanical (E/M) Patent Prosecution Practice Group. This position reports to the Senior Manager of Prosecution Practice Group.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Handling work associated with one of their Chinese clients.
• Support all areas of patent prosecution from preparation and filing of new patent applications through allowance, and all prosecution filings in between.
• Maintain attorney docket to monitor PTO deadlines, client deadlines, and attorney calendars to ensure that action due dates are timely met.
• Schedule appointments for timekeepers, organizing, updating and maintaining electronic filing systems of professional, administrative and prosecution case files.
• Prepare client reporting letters.
• Maintain current knowledge of U.S. filing procedures and rules relating to patent prosecution.
• Keep abreast of firm and client procedures.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience in an IP patent prosecution role.
• Chinese language skills a plus.
• Experience and/or education in patent prosecution is required.
• Proactive, with ability to anticipate attorney and client needs.
• Superior communication and writing skills.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including the ability to resolve conflicts with minimal direction.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects.

Salary range: $70,000 to $75,000.

The firm offers many benefits, including 401k, medical insurance with prescription coverage, HSA, FSA, dental insurance, vision insurance, EAP, group and supplemental life insurance, long-term care, STD, LTD, individual disability income protection, critical illness, accident, pet and legal insurance, onsite parking.

Company Description

Bonnie Jones Associates, L.L.C. is your source for finding and filling permanent financial, accounting, administrative, legal, executive assistant, accounting and HR positions. Our professional staff matches the right candidate with the right employer and we take a lot of pride in that responsibility. Bonnie Jones Associates, L.L.C. has over eighty years of combined recruiting experience.

Our commitment to you is that we will work very hard to find you the right match. Our hope is that you will be very happy that you have chosen to work with us and that you feel we have done a good job for you. Please browse our web site, www.bonniejones.com and contact us so that we can make a happy match for you!

Company Description

Bonnie Jones Associates, L.L.C. is your source for finding and filling permanent financial, accounting, administrative, legal, executive assistant, accounting and HR positions. Our professional staff matches the right candidate with the right employer and we take a lot of pride in that responsibility. Bonnie Jones Associates, L.L.C. has over eighty years of combined recruiting experience. \r\n\r\nOur commitment to you is that we will work very hard to find you the right match. Our hope is that you will be very happy that you have chosen to work with us and that you feel we have done a good job for you. Please browse our web site, www.bonniejones.com and contact us so that we can make a happy match for you!