European Patent Validations Coordinator

Job Purpose:
The EP Validations Coordinator will be part of our patent operations team based at our Head Office in Chalfont St Peter, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Working as part of a team, the EP Validations Coordinator sees the validation process through from beginning to end, ensuring deadlines and country-specific requirements are met. This is a highly administrative role where accuracy and efficiency are paramount, and where a good understanding of European Patent filing formalities will be developed.

**About IP Solutions**

RWS IP Solutions is the world’s leading provider of intellectual property support services. With over 60 years of experience, our leadership in high quality patent translations, foreign filing and IP research services is unrivalled. Combining expert patent translators and advanced technology ensure translations of the highest consistency and quality. We help streamline client's internal processes, providing flexible, cost-effective foreign filing services reducing the administrative burden associated with protecting IP on a global scale. We also offer the widest range of IP research services and the leading patent research database, PatBase. RWS clients include many of the world's best-known brands, and 18 out of 20 of the world’s largest patent filers.

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Job Overview:
**Key Responsibilities**
- Interpretation of client requirements to input validation orders on to the RWS workflow management system
- Preparation and sending of formal confirmation of validation orders and required filing documentation to clients
- Coordination of validation orders with filing agents and patent offices
- Monitoring of EP formalities deadlines
- Swift resolution of issues arising throughout the validation process
- Assistance with validation queries from customers and internal teams
- Co-operation with IP Translations and Renewals teams to ensure successful validations and excellent customer service.

**Skills & Experience**
- Previous administration experience
- Ability to work under pressure and experience of workload prioritisation
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task
- Ability to deal courteously and efficiently with a wide range of people
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Life at RWS:
At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.

As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.

We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.

If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong.

We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise.

**RWS Values**

Get the 3Ps right - Partner, Pioneer, Progress - and we´ll Deliver together as **One RWS**.

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