Part-Time Trade Mark Attorney Special Counsel

Pearce IP Pty Ltd.; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 60.000 - 100.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Birthday leave

Parental leave

Still birth leave

Menopause leave

Study support

Loyalty leave

Zusammenfassung

Pearce IP Pty Ltd invites a qualified Trade Mark Attorney to join as Special Counsel on a part-time basis (about 20 hours per week). The role supports Australia and New Zealand portfolios with hybrid work when based in Sydney, including home-based hours.

You will draft and prosecute trade mark applications, provide brand protection strategies, and assist with enforcement. Collaboration with Pearce IP’s litigation team and other units will help grow the practice and deliver client value across

Qualifikationen

• Qualified to practice as a Trade Mark Attorney in Australia and New Zealand.
• Experience managing a trade marks portfolio.
• Ability to work part-time and hybrid.
• Excellent communication with clients and litigators.

Aufgaben

• Draft and prosecute trade mark applications.
• Manage trade marks portfolio.
• Collaborate with lawyers and other units.
• Advise on infringement and enforcement.
• Support commercialisation of trade marks.
• Develop thought leadership content (articles/blogs).

Kenntnisse

Trade Mark Attorney

ANZ practice

Brand protection

Legal drafting

Ausbildung

Australian & NZ admission

Jobbeschreibung

Part-Time Trade Mark Attorney Special Counsel

Pearce IP is looking for an experienced and qualified Trade Mark Attorney able to work across the Australian and New Zealand jurisdictions. You will join our team to manage and grow an existing Trade Marks portfolio. Working part-time approximately 20 hours per week, there is flexibility in both hours and location. The successful candidate can be based anywhere in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland or New Zealand and work from home. If based in Sydney, the role will be undertaken in a hybrid capacity, spending some time working from home and some time in our office at Martin Place.

Key Responsibilities

In this role you will provide Pearce IP clients with strategic and effective branding strategies, draft and prosecute trade mark applications, and manage contentious disputes (working alongside Pearce IP litigators where appropriate).

Working independently and with the support of a Trade Marks & Patents Executive Assistant, the successful candidate will:

• Be qualified to practice as a Trade Mark Attorney across Australia and New Zealand
• Manage, work on and grow an existing trade marks portfolio
• Collaborate with lawyers and attorneys from other business units to support their clients and grow the trade marks practice
• Provide legally sound, independent, and commercially appropriate branding strategies and services, including contentious and non-contentious trade marks matters before IP Australia and IPONZ
• Advise on infringement of registered and unregistered trade marks
• Manage or assist Pearce IP’s litigation team with the management of trade mark enforcement and infringement proceedings in ANZ
• Assist with the commercialisation of trade marks across multiple jurisdictions
• Develop ideas and content for thought leadership material (eg articles and blogs) about legal and commercial trade mark issues.

About you

You will be an experienced Trade Mark Attorney who is operating at Special Counsel level. You may also be a lawyer but that is not an essential requirement. What is essential is that you have the following experience:

• Managing and growing a practice focussed on trade mark advice, prosecution and enforcement
• Building and implementing effective brand protection and enforcement strategies in Australia and New Zealand
• Providing advice to clients regarding brand protection in Australia and New Zealand and key overseas jurisdictions, including pursuant to the Madrid Protocol
• Trade mark common law and register searches
• Confidently converting new opportunities.

About Pearce IP

Pearce IP is an award-winning specialist IP firm offering intellectual property lawyer, patent attorney and trade mark attorney services to a diverse client base, with many of our clients in the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotech and other life sciences industries. Our team is based across Australia and New Zealand, and we develop, coordinate and execute local and multi-jurisdictional IP litigation strategies. Pearce IP also provides services relating to regional and global business development activities and licensing deals, and drafts and prosecutes patent and trade mark applications around the world. Pearce IP is committed to and celebrates a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are a workplace where it is normal to see women in leadership and where pay equity is a given.

• Birthday leave
• Generous parental leave
• Still birth and miscarriage leave
• Menopause and menstrual leave
• Study support
• Loyalty recognition: employees are provided with an additional week of annual leave each year after five years' employment