Trademark & Copyright Associate - Prosecution / Brand Management (CA / CO / DC / GA / IL / NC / NY)

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's Trademark & Copyright Team seeks an associate with 2+ years of significant brand management experience that includes conducting and managing high-volume, multi-jurisdictional trademark clearance, developing global trademark filing and enforcement programs, and managing large global trademark portfolios.

The position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge trademark issues for name-brand clients.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of significant brand management experience in trademark matters.
• Experience with multi-jurisdictional trademark clearance and global filing programs.
• Experience managing large global trademark portfolios; TTAB experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work on cutting-edge trademark issues for name-brand clients.
• Develop global trademark filing and enforcement programs.
• Manage large global trademark portfolios.
• Strong legal writing, critical thinking, organization and attention to detail.

Skills

Brand management

Trademark clearance

Global portfolio management

Legal writing

Multijurisdictional enforcement

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Job Summary

Kilpatrick’s Trademark & Copyright Team seeks an associate with 2+ years of significant brand management experience that includes conducting and managing high-volume, multi-jurisdictional trademark clearance, developing global trademark filing and enforcement programs, and managing large global trademark portfolios. Experience handling TTAB proceedings is a plus but not required.

We offer the opportunity to work on cutting-edge trademark issues for name-brand clients. Successful candidate will have strong academic credentials, excellent legal writing and critical thinking skills, and be highly organized, self-motivated, and detail oriented.

Multiple office base location options: Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley (Menlo Park), Seattle, Washington DC, or Winston Salem.

(Expected salary: $250,000 to $340,000)

Company Overview

Kilpatrick is a full-service, international law firm with more than 600 attorneys who work with forward-thinking clients in established and emerging industries to solve their most business-critical matters.

Kilpatrick attorneys are fully engaged in the success of the firm's clients. We deliver results-oriented counsel for corporations at all stages of the growth cycle, from the challenging demands of financial transactions and securities to the disciplines of intellectual property management. A close collaboration between the firm's practice areas ensures that we are well-positioned to serve all of our clients' needs.

We serve clients around the world from offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, China, Japan, and Sweden. We value our client relationships and are committed to learning and furthering the business, as well as legal goals, of each company we work with.

We strive at every level to develop beneficial relationships built on trust and mutual respect. We partner with the senior executives and internal counsel of our corporate clients, integrating and sharing tasks as appropriate. We take pride in the fact that clients who hire us once, typically hire us again. Our success is measured by the results we achieve on behalf of our clients, and we commit ourselves, without reservation, to the overriding objective of client satisfaction.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is committed to equal employment opportunity for all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex or gender, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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