Job Description

Your role is a unique opportunity to gain broad exposure in a global environment, supporting strategy and project management, with additional scope to further develop in the future. We are changing the way we move tomorrow through innovative concepts and advanced engineering.

• As part of the IP administrative team, support an international team of patent attorneys in all aspects of managing global patent procurement activities.
• Managing the invention submission and patent prosecution workflow between the engineering organization, in-house IP attorneys and outside counsel
• Maintain the intellectual property database and docketing system with respect to patent matters
• Maintain and track a docket of key deadlines in the patent drafting workflow
• Generate reports of patents requiring review/assessment and execute the decisions made by the legal staff or engineering
• Provide other administrative support for the IP legal staff (assistance with presentations; organizing meetings; expense report assistance, etc.)
• Perform the above-mentioned core duties supporting in-house IP attorneys, engineering organizations, and outside counsel located in Europe, the United States and APAC.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 3+ years of experience at either a law firm or corporate IP department as an intellectual property administrator/paralegal (or with similar responsibilities).
• Familiarity with patent prosecution workflow.
• Experience in international patent prosecution in major world patent offices, including at least EPO, USPTO, and Chinese Patent Office.
• Competent in the use of standard Office software such as Microsoft Word, Excel.
• Experience working with third party and PowerPoint; IP database and docketing tools.
• Ideally, have experience working with Salesforce-based administrative tools.
• Have excellent organization skills, a professional work ethic and a team attitude.
• Possess excellent communication skills and be fluent in written and spoken English. Additional language skills such as German or French are not required but are a plus.