AddressWe are a unique Intellectual Property Firm specialised in working with startups and scaleups and are always looking for dynamic team players to join our team. Our company is headquartered in Cambridge (UK), with offices in New Delhi (IN), Wrocław (PL), Lund (Sweden) and New York (USA).
Candidates must be eligible to work in the selected location without the need to apply for a work permit.
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Patent Associate
Locations: Cambridge, UK
We are looking for open-minded people with good social and management skills who wish to gain Intellectual Property expertise in a wider business context. A perfect candidate will champion a better, faster and simpler way of doing things. We highly value the can-do attitude of the successful candidate and a willingness to take on new challenges. You will need fluent English and an ability to be flexible in your approach to succeed in this role. Previous experience in startups is a big plus.
Typical tasks:
- Reviewing technical descriptions to prepare patent applications.
- Reviewing official correspondence from the patent offices, and preparing and reviewing responses.
- Proactively managing and monitoring execution of deliverables to build clients’ portfolios of IP rights.
- Communicating directly with clients about their IP matters and working closely with external partners, including face-to-face meetings and phone calls from day one.
- Reviewing incoming instructions and being responsible for your own relevant deadlines, replying where appropriate, and saving to electronic files.
- Managing changes in project scope and updating clients on status.
- Supporting other IP managers with their work, attending client meetings to support in technical conversations.
What we are looking for:
- Engineering / Science background or experience in a similar field is required (preferred domain expertise: ICT, Software & Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Med Tech or Life Sciences).
- Great project management and organisation skills.
- Excellent English, written and spoken.
- Ability to multitask and inherited attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate in a professional way with clients and the team.
- Effective team coordinator and team player.
- Being comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy and accountability.
What we promise
INSPIRING ENVIRONMENT
Our clients come from a variety of industries, and you are responsible for their management from A to Z. Your role is not limited to patent prosecution but also active client management and guiding our clients in their IP Strategy.
IN-HOUSE SUPPORT FOR STARTUPS
We niche in working with startups/scaleups and are passionate about our clients. We are our Client’s external IP team which feels like an internal one. With our fixed-fee approach you won’t need to worry about clocking billable hours and will easily become a part of our clients’ day to day activities, staying on top of their latest events.
PURPOSE-DRIVEN BUSINESS
Our “100 Heroes to Carbon Zero” programme is aimed at startups who address sustainability issues and wish to draft their first patent. We do it for free and take great pleasure in supporting those that support our planet.
SUPPORTING DISRUPTING BUSINESSES
Our company provides all the benefits of a boutique firm but offers the same international perspectives as a big corporate. Our clients are both early stage startups and single inventors as well as unicorns. We support not only by helping with their IP.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE
No matter your seniority, we let you implement your own ideas and be independent in managing your entrusted field. Your voice is heard. We are agile enough to make changes quickly, test and review, without complicated procedures.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE
We have no glass ceilings, we let people grow and believe in giving a lot of responsibilities early on to let them spread their wings as quickly as they can. No matter how old you are, no matter how many or how few years of experience you have. We evaluate your work and commitment in our team, here and now. We believe that everyone is the blacksmith of their fate and it depends only on you how quickly your position will develop. We do not believe in automatic promotions, we believe in entrusting more responsibility, taking on new challenges and benefiting from the rewards of success.
FANTASTIC TEAM YOU CAN RELY ON
We enjoy working together and know that we can rely on each other. Quoting one of our team the other day: “If you think it is impossible, just let me remind you that we are BASCKers! Nothing is impossible for us”. We also like keeping fit (SUP-boarding outings and running in Chariots of Fire) and travelling (team offsites).
If this does not sound compelling enough, we can mention a few more standard perks (hybrid work, international travel, NEST company pension scheme, Vitality health insurance, pizza parties), but if the previous points were not enough, we are probably not the right fit!
