Overview
Position Title: Trade Mark Formalities Apprentice
Company: ASOS
Location: London, UK
Job Description:
You’ll need to be hands on and commercially minded, with a strong professional ethic, and the energy, interest and training to deal with tasks associated with the whole lifecycle of our TMs. You’ll need to have a very keen interest in Trade marks, be happy to deal with both formalities and paralegal tasks, and move as quickly as the rest of the business.
The Trade mark (TM) Formalities Apprentice will sit in the Intellectual Property (IP) sub-team within the ASOS Legal Department. As an innovative pure-play e-commerce fashion destination, every inch of ASOS incorporates IP, trade marks and our brand. This role will be critical in ensuring that the Legal Department meets the needs and requirements of all elements of ASOS’ business across the globe, requiring the ability to give commercial as well as legal advice, to operate comfortably and effectively in many different jurisdictions, and to promptly identify risks and issues that need to be escalated within the Company.
Responsibilities:
Docketing and formalities related
- Responsible for ensuring that ASOS’ TM database contains accurate, relevant information
- Processing the formalities related to TM (legal) transfer projects
- Producing reports and data required by IP sub-team, Legal Department & the wider business
- Managing formalities associated with trade mark filing programs, prosecution, registration and renewal, for example preparing PoAs, application forms, paying renewal fees, etc.
- Organizing and maintaining storage of original documents
- Dealing with filing programs for designs & ©
Trade mark related
- Dealing with specification objections
- Reviewing trade mark and company name watches, providing a first view
- Working closely with local agents to ensure that our TM portfolio is managed efficiently
- Collecting evidence required for filings, prosecution and disputes undertaking brand clearance searches
- Preparing TM applications and recorders at UKIPO, EUIPO & WIPO
- Instructing filing programs with local counsel and following up to ensure all requirements are met
Requirements:
- The capability to adapt their approach and communications to ensure excellent interactions across the business
- Strong organizational skills
- An ability to work in a fast-growing, agile, adaptable environment is preferred
- The ability to work within a face paced, constantly changing environment
- A keen eye for detail
About ASOS
We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you’re free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
Whatever your role, asos will encourage you to be you, fulfilling your creative potential with our global reach. Push boundaries, and challenge expectations. We’re determined to succeed, so we’ll trust you to deliver. Help drive our journey to becoming the global fashion destination for 20-somethings
At ASOS our 3,000+ employees are immersed in the creative worlds and have a truly entrepreneurial attitude. Our ASOSers are authentic, brave, creative and disciplined to the core and find ways to blend our passion for fashion with cutting edge technology.
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