Senior Patent Paralegal, Questel
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Intellectual property solutions
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Intellectual property solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help our clients to succeed in the modern knowledge-based economy.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive patent paralegal experience (strongly preferred)
- CIPA qualification (essential)
- Highly proficient
- Strong organisational skills with ability to manage multiple deadlines and a varying workload
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy in document preparation
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proactive approach to your work
- Ambitious for increased responsibility and progression
- Flexible attitude to work
- In addition, it is expected that the candidate will meet the foundational proficiency level of Novagraaf’s Core Competency requirements: customer connectedness, results-oriented, business/commercial awareness, flexibility and resilience
What the job involves
- The candidate will work closely with our attorneys and the wider paralegal team, providing high-quality support across the full patent lifecycle
- Monitoring mailboxes and processing incoming correspondence, updating records system in respect of deadlines
- Monitoring critical fee earner due dates and formalities deadlines
- Preparing and filing official forms via Online filing 2.0, One IPO and ePCT portal
- Handling EP grant formalities, obtaining translations and preparing responses for filing; preparing validation estimates; liaising with our validations team to file EP validations and Unitary Patents and obtaining signed POA’s where required
- Communicating with clients, preparing template letters, sending reminders and invoicing in respect of action taken
- Liaising with foreign associates
- Preparation of patent portfolio schedules on request
- Some design and utility model formalities work
- Processing refunds, assisting with accounts related queries and liaising with our finance team to approve invoices
- Updating process documents and additional ad-hoc tasks where necessary
- Answering telephone calls/dealing with enquiries and forwarding messages to the appropriate person
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Securing patents and protecting intellectual property (IP) can be an expensive and time-consuming process. Questel solves this problem by streamlining the innovation lifecycle.
The company offers an end-to-end platform that allows businesses to search, analyse and manage inventions and IP assets. Questel's solutions save businesses between 30-60% on their prosecution budget, too, highlighting why companies are attracted to their platform.
Having spun off from France Télécom (now Orange) in 2001, Questel has proven that it has significant staying power. In recent years, it has acquired a number of companies to expand its product, which forms a vital part of Questel's strategy for continued success in the IP market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2020
$467.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jun 2015
$21.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $488.2m
Company benefits
- Permanent contract
- Profit-sharing bonus
- CSE benefits
- Restaurant card
- Health insurance
- Part-time remote
Company HQ
Gaillon, Paris, France
Leadership
Charles Besson
(CEO)Previously served as a Financial Director and then CEO of Lectra in Brazil and Colombia. Was CEO and Founder of Sericom.
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