Trademark Administrator

What We & Biggar is Canadas largest firm specializing exclusively in intellectual property (IP) and technology law with offices in Ottawa Toronto Montreal Vancouver Calgary and the Waterloo Region. With over 125 years of experience we are recognized as Canadas leader in IP and technology law serving an exceptional international clientele. We are committed to hiring diverse individuals who represent the best talent in the are part of the IPH Group. IPH is the Asia Pacifics leading intellectual property services group comprising a network of member firms working in eight IP jurisdictions and servicing more than 25 countries. The group includes leading IP firms AJ Park Griffith HackPizzeys ROBIC Spruson& Ferguson and Smart & Biggar. IPHemploys across Australia China Hong Kong SAR Indonesia Malaysia New Zealand Singapore Thailand and are passionate about what we do and what we can achieve. The IPH Group is committed to promoting and maintaining a workplace culture of shared respect across companies to enable us all to feel valued and be the best we can are currently looking forIP Administrators to join our Trademark this role you will perform a variety of trademark prosecution tasks and administrative duties in support of our national trademark are available for both permanent and temporary positions with temporary roles being a minimum 14-month term. This role is open to both bilingual (French/English) and non-bilingual roles will fill existing technical objections raised in Examiners reports draft suggestions to overcome the objections and report to clientsFile responses to office actions including revision of application and all relevant follow through correspondencesFile extension of time requests with CIPO related to examinationOther duties may be assigned or amended as requiredQualifications competencies and Administration Legal Assistant or Paralegal diploma or relevant combination of education and work experience2 years of relevant Trademark experience in an office or law firm environmentExcellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to deal directly with clientsExcellent attention to detail and is highly organized and proactiveExperience using MS Office and has the ability to learn new software quicklyAbility to manage multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced and ever-changing work base salary for this role will be positioned between $63000 - $77000 taking into consideration factors such as location job-related knowledge prior experience qualifications and internal equity.--Our recruitment process uses AI-enabled tools to assist with the assessment of applications based on job-related criteria. These tools do not make the final decisions. All decisions related to screening interviewing and selection are made by our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams.#LI-HYBRID