Associate / Trade Mark Attorney - Intellectual Property (mid-level)

We are looking for a mid-level Associate / Trade Mark Attorney to join our established team in London, as a member of one of the largest departments in the London office. We are looking for candidates with three to four years of post qualification experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing advice on a wide range of brand related issues, both non-contentious and contentious.
• Assistance in the management of worldwide trade mark and design portfolios including conducting and providing advice on trade mark and design clearance searches, drafting trade mark specifications, implementing, and managing worldwide trade mark and design filing programmes, advising on filing strategies.
• Providing advice, dealing with prosecution issues, drafting arguments, and preparing evidence in response to Trade Mark Office objections, third party oppositions, invalidity, and appeal actions.
• Providing advice, drafting settlement agreements, managing trade mark disputes - trade mark oppositions, cancellation actions, enforcement cases, domain name disputes
• Providing advice and drafting agreements relating to IP rights including letters of consent, assignments, licences, co-existence agreements, undertakings, cease & desist letters, and undertakings

What You'll Bring
To meet the competencies of the role, candidates will have at gained post-qualification experience in a leading law firm/IP practice and an ability to manage portfolios and client relationships with limited supervision, while fully considering other legal issues that may be raised by the client.

What's In It For You

• Our agile approach to office and remote working enables you to find the right balance to deliver at your best. Supporting you, our business and our clients in a flexible way.
• Progress your career and personal development with our award-winning development programmes, from our global mentoring scheme to our bespoke coaching opportunities.
• Equip yourself with a board range of technical and business skills as well as a deep understanding of business issues through our skills-based curriculum.
• Competitive, market-led salary and bonus structure
• Family friendly policies as well as health schemes and wellbeing support
• A flexible benefits package which allows you to tailor your benefits to your current needs and lifestyle.

In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package, Bird & Bird operates two discretionary bonus schemes.

We offer a performance related bonus that reflects the contributions you make to the firm. We know an inclusive culture, alongside a diverse workforce, makes us more innovative and agile, so whilst some of the criteria for being awarded a bonus is based on chargeable hours, we also include an allowance for hours spent contributing to Diversity & Inclusion, ESG, and Pro Bono work.

We see 'winning work' as significantly different to the day-to-day business development activities you carry out as part of your role as an Associate, so in addition to the Performance Bonus, Bird & Bird are keen to reward Associates for winning work. Winning Work Bonuses are paid in addition to the Performance Bonus and are intended to be a thank you for your contribution to introducing a client or generating additional work from an existing client.

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Bird & Bird opens up a world of possible for lawyers everywhere. Here you can advise major enterprises and high-growth businesses on matters that are often transformative in nature, and alongside people who are truly collegiate in the way they work with everyone at Bird & Bird. We are one international firm, where over 70% of our work involves teams from across our firm. And that is only going to increase. It is this common purpose and shared approach that makes for a more productive, and collaborative place to work.

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