Roles and Responsibilities
TRADEMARK PARALEGALS
- Assisting the IP Transaction Lawyer and Brand Rights team with various aspects of intellectual property transactional work. This involves managing and organizing legal documents, conducting research, auditing IP records, organizing and managing intellectual property records in Anaqua, and assisting with the preparation of IP-related agreements and documents.
- Assisting the IP Transaction Lawyer and Brand Rights Team in the IP due diligence for transactions, including review of IP assets and agreements.
- Generating reports on IP-related rights, agreements, conflicts, and searches in Anaqua.
- Generating reports from commercial databases or publicly available databases.
- Conducting research on use of IP assets and competitors' presence and rights.
- Analyzing data to identify risks and gaps.
- Assisting in addressing gaps identified in the due diligence.
- Assisting in reviewing and drafting IP-related agreements, including licenses, assignments, and various transactional agreements/documents.
- Maintaining and organizing IP-related documents in Anaqua.
- Maintaining and updating data management systems as needed.
- Communicating with clients, attorneys, and external parties to coordinate and gather necessary information for IP transactions.
- Assisting with trademark offices transactional activities, including filing trademark assignments, confirmatory assignments, changes of ownership etc.
- Assisting in handling legacy Pfizer, Novartis, GSK transactional issues.
- Handling administrative tasks related to IP transactions, such as time, deadline and task tracking.
- Assisting in the creation and maintenance of the ULX Trademark Dashboard.
TRADEMARKS FORMALITIES
- Reviewing incoming mails related to trademark matters.
- Analyzing and managing applicable deadlines and response dates during prosecution.
- Supporting renewal and recorded activities.
- Entering relevant trademark details including, but not limited to,