At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage and grow a trade marks portfolio while providing strategic branding advice.
- Company: Join Pearce IP, an award-winning specialist IP firm with a diverse client base.
- Benefits: Flexible hours, remote work, generous leave policies, and study support.
- Other info: Work from anywhere in Australia or New Zealand, with hybrid options available in Sydney.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the IP field while enjoying a supportive and inclusive workplace.
- Qualifications: Must be a qualified Trade Mark Attorney with experience in brand protection.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 $ per year.
Pearce IP is looking for an experienced and qualified Trade Mark Attorney able to work across the Australian and New Zealand jurisdictions. You will join our team to manage and grow an existing Trade Marks portfolio. Working part-time approximately 20 hours per week, there is flexibility in both hours and location. The successful candidate can be based anywhere in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland or New Zealand and work from home. If based in Sydney, the role will be undertaken in a hybrid capacity, spending some time working from home and some time in our office at Martin Place.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide Pearce IP clients with strategic and effective branding strategies.
- Draft and prosecute trade mark applications.
- Manage contentious disputes (working alongside Pearce IP litigators where appropriate).
- Be qualified to practice as a Trade Mark Attorney across Australia and New Zealand.
- Manage, work on and grow an existing trade marks portfolio.
- Collaborate with lawyers and attorneys from other business units to support their clients and grow the trade marks practice.
- Provide legally sound, independent, and commercially appropriate branding strategies and services, including contentious and non-contentious trade marks matters before IP Australia and IPONZ.
- Advise on infringement of registered and unregistered trade marks.
- Manage or assist Pearce IP’s litigation team with the management of trade mark enforcement and infringement proceedings in ANZ.
- Assist with the commercialisation of trade marks across multiple jurisdictions.
- Develop ideas and content for thought leadership material (e.g., articles and blogs) about legal and commercial trade mark issues.
About you
You will be an experienced Trade Mark Attorney who is operating at Special Counsel level. You may also be a lawyer but that is not an essential requirement. What is essential is that you have the following experience:
- Managing and growing a practice focussed on trade mark advice, prosecution and enforcement.
- Building and implementing effective brand protection and enforcement strategies in Australia and New Zealand.
- Providing advice to clients regarding brand protection in Australia and New Zealand and key overseas jurisdictions, including pursuant to the Madrid Protocol.
- Trade mark common law and register searches.
- Confidently converting new opportunities.
About Pearce IP
Pearce IP is an award-winning specialist IP firm offering intellectual property lawyer, patent attorney and trade mark attorney services to a diverse client base, with many of our clients in the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotech and other life sciences industries. Our team is based across Australia and New Zealand, and we develop, coordinate and execute local and multi-jurisdictional IP litigation strategies. Pearce IP also provides services relating to regional and global business development activities and licensing deals, and drafts and prosecutes patent and trade mark applications around the world. Pearce IP is committed to and celebrates a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are a workplace where it is normal to see women in leadership and where pay equity is a given.
Benefits
- Birthday leave.
- Generous parental leave.
- Still birth and miscarriage leave.
- Menopause and menstrual leave.
- Study support.
- Loyalty recognition: employees are provided with an additional week of annual leave each year after five years' employment.
Part-Time Trade Mark Attorney Special Counsel in Sydney employer: Pearce IP Pty Ltd.
Pearce IP is an exceptional employer that champions a flexible work culture, allowing you to thrive as a Part-Time Trade Mark Attorney Special Counsel from the comfort of your home or in a hybrid setting if based in Sydney. With a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, along with generous benefits such as birthday leave and loyalty recognition, Pearce IP fosters an environment where professional growth is encouraged and valued, making it an ideal place for experienced attorneys looking to make a meaningful impact in the field of intellectual property.
