Trade Mark Paralegal / Administrator

Location: Cambridge / London

Salary: £25,000 - £40,000

Permanent, full time

Closing Date: 8th November 2024

It’s an exciting time to join us!

We are looking for a Trade Mark Paralegal to provide exceptional service with your team to a range of local and international clients.

Further Key Responsibilities:

• Preparing cost estimates for trade mark filing and administrative change programme

• Filing trade mark and design applications

• Drafting specifications of goods / services for trade mark filings

• Assisting with transfer, records and due diligence programmes

• Standard reporting of trade mark official documents, filing receipts, publication notices, registration certificates

• Arranging and reviewing watch notices

• Creating records, reports and updating case management database

• Handling notarisation / legalisation requirements

• Conducting trade mark portfolio reviews

Essential skills and experience

We are ideally looking for someone with some experience in the trade marks field, but you must have worked as Paralegal for 2 or more years, in private practice or in-house.

• Hold a 2:1 or above in an undergraduate degree

• Be adaptable in meeting the needs of a range of clients

• Have an excellent attitude - Stobbs is a team and our culture of support and care is central to the firm

• Be accountable - you will take responsibility for ensuring your work is carried out with care, thoroughness and accurate attention to detail

• Committed to continuous learning and professional development

Firm culture is important at Stobbs - friendly, social, approachable and where we look after each other. We regularly provide our own social and professional events. We manage the rights of some fantastic clients - obviously that means our advice has to be legally sound, but it's also about it being business savvy. We have high standards but learn from our mistakes. We’re not internally competitive (well, except when it comes to sports and quizzes!). We're certainly not run with an iron fist; we want our people to bring their whole selves to work, wanting to perform well, learn from mistakes and to feel comfortable asking questions and learning, and helping us continue to improve and be the best we can be.

Our head office is north of Cambridge, with an office in central London. We are trying to strike a good balance of supporting people to work flexibly while delivering for our clients and making Stobbs an attractive place to work. Our current hybrid working policy is a minimum requirement of two days in the office, encouraging people in more if possible. We may expect you to be based in the office full-time during the first six-months. Those seeking a part-time role may also be considered.

The company

Stobbs is a niche intellectual property practice that recognises that to give the best advice on brands, you need to take a more strategic and holistic approach than pure trade mark expertise. To that end, we launched the concept of Intangible Asset Management.

We have a breadth of capability that goes far beyond the scope of any other IP firm and encompasses trade marks, designs and copyright, litigation, disputes, commercial contracts, brand intelligence, brand extension (licensing), systems, online brand enforcement, anti-counterfeiting and brand restructuring.

Formed in 2013 with 18 people, today we have over 200 professionals based in Cambridge, London, Dublin, Eindhoven and Munich.