Patent Renewal / Records Clerk (Paralegal) - LSU - Sheffield/Edinburgh/Glasgow

CMS is seeking an enthusiastic, dedicated Patent Renewal Records Clerk (Paralegal) to join our Legal Services Unit in either Glasgow, Edinburgh or Sheffield.

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.

We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of working.  Our aim is to inspire, impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to maximize their potential and thrive.

About the Role

The main duties of the role will include:
•    Generating and preparing renewal reminders for clients.
•    Attending to payment of renewal fees as instructed.
•    Dealing with client queries and helping them understand certain procedures.
•    Ensuring all service charges and official fees in relation to renewals are accurately recorded and working closely with the Revenue Team.
•    Docketing and processing incoming requests from the internal records mailbox, external client mailbox and adding new patent applications (EP, UK, PCT and Foreign)
•    Reviewing and second checking deadlines and actions docketed by other members of the team including post received via the EPO mailbox.
•    Checking documents as filed to ensure that the correct actions have been taken, relevant fees paid, and no obvious errors made in submissions.
•    Processing client and deadline reports from the records system.
•    General daily maintenance of the records system including updating and removing deadlines and updating client information.
•    Communicating with fee earners and paralegals ensuring the deadlines are met and assisting with their general queries for records.

About You

We are recruiting for a Patent Renewal/Records Clerk (Paralegal), ideally with a year or more experience within a busy Patent department. The CIPA qualification is advantageous but not essential. The ideal candidate will be a team player who remains calm under pressure and is able to handle multiple tasks and has a high level of accuracy. 

At CMS we pride ourselves on providing industry leading training, guidance, support, and variety of workload to ensure our Records team are in the best possible environment to learn and develop. We operate a busy, dynamic, workload model, based on case-loading and teamwork. There will be huge opportunities to tackle a wide range of tasks across all of our clients from European, PCT and United Kingdom applications to foreign patents. Both teamwork and communication are a huge part of making our working model efficient and high performing. 

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive. For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please view the Diversity & Inclusion pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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