Patent Renewal Clerk

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Role: Patent Renewal Clerk

Salary: 24,000 - 33,000

Location: Glasgow

Hours: Mon-Fri (Hybrid available)

Our client is seeking an enthusiastic, dedicated Patent Renewal Records Clerk (Paralegal) to join their Legal Services Unit in Glasgow.

Benefits:

• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Emergency Backup Care (for childcare needs)
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Subsidised gym membership
• Health assessments at Nuffield Hospitals
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Loyalty awards every five years
• A payroll giving scheme
• A referral scheme paying up to GBP 5,000 for each new hire
• Study assistance
• Taxi costs if you work late

Duties:

The main duties of the role will include:

• Generating and preparing renewal reminders for clients.
• Attending to payment of renewal fees as instructed.
• Dealing with client queries and helping them understand certain procedures.
• Ensuring all service charges and official fees in relation to renewals are accurately recorded and working closely with the Revenue Team.
• Docketing and processing incoming requests from the internal records mailbox, external client mailbox and adding new patent applications (EP, UK, PCT and Foreign)
• Reviewing and second checking deadlines and actions docketed by other members of the team including post received via the EPO mailbox.
• Checking documents as filed to ensure that the correct actions have been taken, relevant fees paid, and no obvious errors made in submissions.
• Processing client and deadline reports from the records system.
• General daily maintenance of the records system including updating and removing deadlines and updating client information.
• Communicating with fee earners and paralegals ensuring the deadlines are met and assisting with their general queries for records.

Ideal Candidate:

Ideally with a year or more experience within a busy Patent department. The CIPA qualification is advantageous but not essential. The ideal candidate will be a team player who remains calm under pressure and is able to handle multiple tasks and has a high level of accuracy.

Our client pride themselves on providing industry leading training, guidance, support, and variety of workload to ensure their Records team are in the best possible environment to learn and develop. They operate a busy, dynamic, workload model, based on case-loading and teamwork. There will be huge opportunities to tackle a wide range of tasks across all of their clients from European, PCT and United Kingdom applications to foreign patents. Both teamwork and communication are a huge part of making their working model efficient and high performing.

Glu Recruit LTD are an equal opportunities employer and are acting as a recruitment agent in the hiring of this role.

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