Patent Filling Specialist
Adams Adams
Date: 1 day ago
City: Pretoria, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time

Duties and responsibilities
- Typing/editing of correspondence and documents
- General administrative duties e.g., emails, photocopying, etc
- Preparing quotations for clients
- Checking formality documents received from client and preparing responses
- Responding to client queries and dispatching schedules of charges
- Selecting and preparing for client, appropriate assignment forms depending on chain of transfer of rights; and various other forms
- Identifying South African applicant in light of mergers/changes of name, etc.
- Preparing patent and registered designs applications for filing in South Africa (including divisional and patents of addition) and reporting to client
- Late filing of outstanding documents for applications in South Africa and reporting to client
- Checking applications prepared and late filings
- Checking correspondence and documents prepared and filed belatedly
- Working out invoices and invoicing clients
- Amending/correcting patent & design applications in South Africa
- Obtaining extensions of time for acceptance and registration, and for filing outstanding requirements
- Expediting patent and design registrations and applications
- Diarizing applications
- Opening of files
- Applying for new account numbers
- Applying to amend existing account details
- Applying for revenue stamps
- Capturing charges onto file
- Doing Debit and Credit notes
- To carry out any ad hoc duties that are commensurate with the job level
- Open cases in Patricia
Skills and knowledge
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are required, including a thorough understanding of how
to interpret customer business needs and translate them into reporting solutions. - Ability to use sound judgment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Being able to work to tight deadlines.
- High level of precision and attention to detail.
- Passion for automation.
- A friendly and service-orientated person.
- Ability to work independently with minimal management supervision.
- Willingness to learn and apply.
- To be self - motivated and "go'-getter"
- Ability to transfer knowledge and write high-quality technical documentation
Qualifications and Experience
- Computer literacy with competent typing skills
- Excellent language skills (good command of English, both written and verbal)
- Ability to prioritise and deal with urgent matters promptly and efficiently
- A conscientious, loyal and dedicated person, with the ability to think laterally
- Someone with a professional attitude
- Ability to work independently and under supervision
- Ability to handle the pressure of having to cope with large workload
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