Epiq Counsel
Patent Paralegal (In-House)
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Join our global pharmaceutical client in a hybrid Patent Paralegal role combining patent attorney support and patent docketing responsibilities across a sophisticated international patent portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Support a team of patent attorneys across a broad range of patent prosecution, portfolio management, and intellectual property matters.
- Prepare and coordinate patent filings, prosecution documents, correspondence, and related patent support activities.
- Manage patent docketing activities, including monitoring deadlines, official actions, and critical filing dates.
- Maintain accurate patent portfolio records and case data within the company's IP management system.
- Coordinate with outside counsel, patent offices, inventors, and internal stakeholders to ensure timely progression of patent matters.
- Assist with national, European, and PCT patent administration and portfolio support.
- Help manage competing priorities across attorney support, prosecution, litigation-related activities, and docketing responsibilities.
- Contribute to a collaborative IP operations team supporting a sophisticated global patent portfolio.
What You'll Do
- Provide day-to-day support to patent attorneys across prosecution, portfolio management, and IP operations.
- Manage patent docketing activities and monitor critical deadlines.
- Prepare and coordinate patent filings, correspondence, and related documentation.
- Support national, European, and PCT patent matters.
- Maintain accurate patent portfolio records using IP management systems such as Anaqua.
- Partner with internal stakeholders, inventors, and outside counsel to advance patent matters efficiently.
- Balance attorney support responsibilities with ongoing docketing and portfolio administration work.
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Required Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of patent paralegal experience supporting patent attorneys.
- Demonstrated experience with both patent prosecution support and patent docketing.
- Understanding of domestic and international patent filing processes.
- Experience managing deadlines across active patent portfolios.
- Ability to successfully balance deadline-driven docketing responsibilities with attorney support work.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life sciences patent portfolios.
- CIPA qualification, EPAC certification, or similar intellectual property credential.
- Experience using Anaqua or similar IP management systems.
- Experience supporting PCT, European, and national patent filings.
Working Arrangement
Secondment Engagement
- Expected 12+ months, with potential for long-term extension.
- Hybrid role with a minimum of two days per week onsite in Bracknell.
- Convenient location approximately 10 minutes' walk from the Bracknell train station, offering an easy commute from London.
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Benefits
- Join a global pharmaceutical industry leader.
- Work alongside experienced patent attorneys and IP professionals.
- Gain exposure to complex international patent portfolios.
- Long-term engagement stability with potential for extension.
- Hybrid flexibility with a collaborative and supportive team.
Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however, due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.
About Epiq Counsel
Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal secondment work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of legal matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.
Our team takes the time and attention to understand each legal professional's practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with sophisticated interim in-house opportunities with leading law departments across the globe. Leverage our network to work for organizations in need of top-tier legal services. Take the next step in your legal career and join a vibrant community of Epiq legal professionals!
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