Who we are:
CRA Consulting are a specialist legal recruiter, operating across the UK. CRA works in partnership with reputable law firms with either local, regional, national or international presence. We recruit at all levels from board, director and partnership level through to support staff.
For additional information on how we can assist you with your next career move, visit the CRA Consulting Website at www.craconsultants.com.
About the business:
CRA Consulting are recruiting on behalf of one of our prestigious clients looking to recruit a Patent Renewal Clerk to join their very busy Patent team.
If successful, you will perform the following role as a Patent Paralegal
- Generating and preparing renewal reminders for clients.
- Attending to payment of renewal fees as instructed.
- Dealing with client queries and helping them understand certain procedures.
- Ensuring all service charges and official fees in relation to renewals are accurately recorded and working closely with the Revenue Team.
- Docketing and processing incoming requests from the internal records mailbox, external client mailbox and adding new patent applications (EP, UK, PCT and Foreign)
- Reviewing and second checking deadlines and actions docketed by other members of the team including post received via the EPO mailbox.
- Checking documents as filed to ensure that the correct actions have been taken, relevant fees paid, and no obvious errors made in submissions.
- Processing client and deadline reports from the records system.
- General daily maintenance of the records system including updating and removing deadlines and updating client information.
- Communicating with fee earners and paralegals ensuring the deadlines are met and assisting with their general queries for records.
To apply, you will be required to meet the following criteria:
- 1 + years working in a Patent or IP team (with exposure to patent)
- CIPA Qualification ideal but not essential
How to apply:
If this vacancy is of interest, please click the apply button. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss with Alastair Pickford who is managing this vacancy email me on
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Additional Information:
CRA Legal follow strict best practice recruitment guidelines monitored by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Please note our advertisements use salary levels purely as a guide. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.
This vacancy is very popular with the local legal community, so please apply quickly to ensure your application is considered. As part of our candidate registration and care process we at CRA Legal aim to respond to all successful applications within 2 working days.