Patent Filing & Prosecution Specialist
Nokia
The Filing & Prosecution Administration team is providing support to Nokia’s Patenting organization in building and managing the global patent portfolio. The team is responsible for filing patent applications with Patent Offices, handling incoming and outgoing patent application prosecution correspondence from/to Patent Offices, docketing and maintaining data in Intellectual Property Rights Management System tools, interfacing with external associates globally, ensuring data quality and accuracy, tracking deadlines, managing other administrative requirements, and working closely with internal patent practitioners. As the positions are entirely new, you will have the opportunity to shape the role and build the new in-house Indian Filing & Prosecution administration team.
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We are looking for Patent Filing & Prosecution specialists / Paralegals to join our newly created Indian Filing & Prosecution administration team within the patent Portfolio Operations unit. In this role, you will prepare and file Nokia patent applications with the Indian Patent Office and manage other formalities with the Indian Patent Office. You will also support the local community of inventors for formal documents signatures and other formalities. This is a unique opportunity to join our world-class in-house team of filing and prosecution specialists.
Must-Have:
Bachelor’s degree (legal or management) preferably with paralegal certificate.
Some knowledge of patent prosecution rules and procedures (e.g. from docketing practice).
Excellent communication skills in English, both spoken and written.
Exceptional attention to detail and deadlines.
Professional, self-disciplined, efficient, and capable of working independently
Excellent organizational and prioritization skills, time management skills, and interpersonal skills
Nice-To-Have:
Experience in filing & prosecuting National or PCT patent applications at Indian patent office (from private practice or in-house team).
Experience in working in multicultural and multiple time zones environment.
- Support and collaborate with practitioners in the filing and prosecution of IN National, provisional or PCT patent applications (first filings or further filings / National phases of PCT applications).
- Request Foreign Filing licenses / permits at IN patent office for inventions with Indian inventors to be first filed in foreign jurisdictions.
- Manage all required formalities such as Power of Attorneys.
- Prepare and process patent application related documents and forms as well as various official correspondences, for example responses to office actions or working statements to be filed with IN patent office.
- File patent applications via electronic filing systems.
- Manage the payment system to pay the required fees at the IN patent office.
- Create and maintain accurate records and docketing in Nokia patent database.
- Support the local inventors’ community for administrative tasks, such as collecting wet signatures from inventors (for assignments, required forms etc.) and sending documents to archives in Finland or local agents in different countries.
- Proactively manages patent prosecution docket, ensuring all deadlines are met in a timely manner.