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