Trainee Patent Administrator

As you begin the journey towards becoming a Patent Administrator, you will be guided by structured and practical training and will learn how to provide efficient organisational support to our patent attorneys by assisting them with patent administration and various other office duties.,

• Correspondence with clients and patent offices.


• Typing including revision of documents and tailoring standard documents.


• Formalities relating to patent procedures, including preparation of forms.


• Maintenance of electronic files.


• Diary management.


• Preparing charges and invoices., All the training you will require to become a Patent Administrator will be provided, primarily by us "in-house". Progression to the position of paralegal and beyond is available with the career structure provided. You can get a feel for what a day in the life of a patent paralegal is like here:

www.abelimray.com/careers/day-in-the-life/day-in-the-life-of-a-support-colleague.

Prior experience is not required or expected - we will train you! As such, we are primarily looking for someone who is bright, keen to learn, happy to undertake the training required to equip you for the role, and excited to be part of a team of paralegals and other support staff that help us serve our clients.

You might have just completed your A-levels or Uni degree and wondering what career would suit you, you might have been on an apprentice scheme and now looking for your next step in the job market, or you might simply be thinking about doing something a little different. Whatever your circumstances, if you have at least a few of the following skills (or the ability to quickly acquire them), we'd love to hear from you:


• Strong English language skills.


• Competency at maths / basic arithmetic (with a calculator).


• Excellent attention to detail.


• Curious and willing to learn.


• Ability to use your own initiative and be a positive team player with a 'can-do' attitude.


• Basic IT / PC skills - e.g. word-processing / using Microsoft Office.


• Organised and methodical.


• Comfortable working with deadlines.
  
  With an office in the heart of Bath, Abel + Imray LLP is a firm that excels at advising on all aspects of patents, trade marks and designs in the UK, Europe and around the world. A large part of what we do is assisting UK and international clients to protect their intellectual property ("IP") whether that's obtaining patents for their latest inventions or registering the appearance of new products with registered designs.


We are now looking for a Trainee Patent Administrator to join us as part of the support team of paralegals and other admin staff in this challenging and rewarding work., Abel & Imray is a firm of patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys. Patent attorneys are like geeks turned lawyers. To become a patent attorney it helps to have a love of science and technology - because that's what most inventions we protect are all about. All of our patent attorneys have a science degree, and learned about patent law when training as part of their job. Very few patent attorneys have a law degree - we are not solicitors or general lawyers. Trade mark attorneys do not need a science degree but, as with patent attorneys, they learn the law and the skills of the attorney as part of the training when first employed.

Our clients range from established global brands to UK-based start-ups, who need legal advice and support to protect their intellectual property. We help safeguard their ideas and innovations by securing patents, trade marks and design registrations. That sees us work with government-run intellectual property offices in the UK, across Europe and around the globe.

The Bath office is a friendly and vibrant working environment housed in modern offices in the centre of the city. The Bath office has over 50 staff split between fee-earning legal professionals (the patent attorneys and the trade mark attorneys, and associated trainees) and specialist support staff, which include patent administrators, trade mark administrators, patent paralegals, and trade mark paralegals. We also have offices in London and Cardiff and an office in Delft in the Netherlands.