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Job Description:
Patent Administrator
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
The Patent Administrator will be part of the Global Legal Service Center (GLSC) and will support the Patents Work Group, which assists 3M to obtain and maintain Patent records across geographies.
The Patent Administrator will report to the GLSC Patents Work Group lead and work closely with the Office of Intellectual Property team, globally. The Patent Administrator is an experienced Intellectual Property professional with substantive knowledge of Patents frameworks across different geographies.
Responsibilities:
- Gathers information and instructions to assist patent attorney/agent with US/international patent application filing and prosecution, communicates requests and instructions to liaisons, foreign associates,
or outside counsel.
- Independently obtains data and composes detailed prosecution related correspondence of varying complexity requiring an advanced working knowledge of US and international government rules/guidelines, patent administrative practices, specialized patent terminology, and/or technical vocabulary.
- Analyzes incoming patent communications and determines required action and appropriate response.
- Supports global patent team by charting case status, coordinating multiple worldwide patent dockets, preparing reports, and independently responding to client inquiries.
- Identifies and solves problems or discrepancies by interpreting data, utilizing internal and external resource manuals and researching government rules/guidelines (MPEP, CFR, Kluwer Manual, Global Patent Office websites).
- Documents solutions to difficult scenarios, proposes and implements changes to existing documentation, publish