Intermediate/Senior
Toronto, ON, Canada
31677

Toronto – 12month Contract (with possibility to extend)
Our client, a Canadian multinational toy and entertainment company that markets consumer products for children, is looking to add the following role to their team.
Duties of this role will include:
- Administrative support to the IP team
- Specific IP tasks pertaining to trademarks, patents, copyrights and industrial designs, including liaising with IP associates globally
- Trademarks: renewals; preparing and filing new applications in Canada and instructing IP associates globally; collecting materials and information to support various trademark filings
- Trademark Searches: conducting general knock-off searches, managing and facilitating the trademark searches for all Global Business Teams and maintaining internal tracking sheet
- Trademark Watch portfolio review and analysis feedback provided to Senior Director
- Patent and Patent Analysis coordination of assets and managing dates of submissions for analysis and applications; arranging for execution of declarations, assignments
- Legalization of Documents: managing the legalization requirements for all global IP matters, and Litigation matters, which may include the management and request for translation of documents
- Updating the docketing system with trademark and patent deadlines and monitoring upcoming deadlines for all IP matters
- Management of Patent website with the Web Team; including tracking all issued patents, and designs registration numbers and territories and updating on a quarterly basis; including removing any expired patents and updating the Legal Packaging team of changes
- Creation/management of sensitive correspondence, memos, presentations and other documentation
- Responding to telephone/email/in-person queries in a timely manner
- Conducting research, and assembling and analyzing data for reports and documents
- File management including scanning, copying, saving documents in paper and electronic form
- Other administrative duties as required including, but not limited to, booking meetings/appointments, sending emails, sending out mail/courier, taking meeting minutes
For more information or to submit your resume, email kgauthier@zsa.ca reference #31677
Tagged as : Contract, In-House, Senior