Global Patent Prosecution Paralegal

Dow Inc.; Brazoria (TX); Sur place; USD 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Dow Inc. is seeking a Patent Prosecution Paralegal to provide patent prosecution support as part of the Core Legal Practices – Patent team.

The role is based on site in Midland, Michigan, or Lake Jackson, Texas, and involves managing varied domestic and international filings with attention to detail and strict deadlines. You will collaborate with attorneys, foreign counsel, vendors, and docketing teams to ensure timely, accurate protection of the company’s intellectual property.

Qualifications

• Associate degree OR 2 years of relevant paralegal, legal professional, IP, docketing, or deadline-driven experience.

Responsabilités

• Prepare, review, and file U.S. patent applications, international PCT applications, office action responses, information disclosure statements, notices, formal documents, and other prosecution-related submissions with USPTO, WIPO, and foreign jurisdictions.
• Coordinate domestic and foreign patent prosecution activities, including filing instructions, foreign associate communications, national phase instruction letters, and inventor-related filing processes.
• Monitor patent dockets and deadlines; coordinate with attorneys, clients, foreign counsel, vendors, and internal docketing teams to support timely action.
• Review patent office correspondence and communicate with clients regarding deadlines, instructions, signatures, annuity and maintenance matters, and other prosecution activities.
• Support invention evaluation and inventor-related processes by organizing documentation and maintaining inventor information.
• Maintain accurate patent and document management records.
• Improve efficiency, collaboration, and consistency by developing and maintaining policies, procedures, forms, best practices, and tools that automate or track patent processes.

Connaissances

Communication

Attention to Detail

Time Management

Formation

Associate degree

Description du poste

Dow Inc. is seeking a Patent Prosecution Paralegal to provide patent prosecution support as part of the Core Legal Practices – Patent team.

The role is based on site in Midland, Michigan, or Lake Jackson, Texas, and involves managing varied domestic and international filings with attention to detail and strict deadlines. You will collaborate with attorneys, foreign counsel, vendors, and docketing teams to ensure timely, accurate protection of the company’s intellectual property.