Outline of Responsibilities

• Collaborating with the Patent team, associates, junior associate, senior paralegals, and paralegals.
• Handling prosecution of patent and industrial design including but not limited to: service proposals, pre-filing advice, filing particulars, prosecution progress, reporting and preparing Response to Office Actions during different stages of examination, voluntary amendment, grant progress, annuity, renewal, translating/reviewing relevant documents including but not limited to specification from English to Vietnamese and vice versa, following up with the Intellectual Property Office of Viet Nam on the cases;
• Handling appeal, opposition, invalidation of patent and industrial design;
• Handling recordal matters such as assignment, amendment for pending and granted patents for both patent and industrial design;
• Handling patent and industrial design searches and providing opinions on the search such as patentability search, freedom to operate search, etc.
• Working together with DRT team on enforcement of patent and industrial design such as drafting advice to client/answering client questions relating to technical matters, drafting/reviewing supporting evidence to obtain expert opinion on infringement assessment, drafting/reviewing arguments submitted to enforcement authorities, working with enforcement authorities, attending the court, etc.;
• Handling other intellectual property matters or regulartory matters of relevant technical nature, such as plant variety, bussiness secret, integrated circuit layout design, etc.
• Monitoring deadlines, files and related information on patents/industrial designs;
• Reviewing appropriate work done by patent team members;
• Training patent team members, new joiners, mentoring interns, as appropriate;
• Performing appropriate business development activities for patent team including but not limited to drafting fee proposal for important clients, meeting/telecom with clients, legal updating for clients, preparing reply to clients’ inquiries on patent and industrial design matters in Vietnam; writing articles or drafting other marketing materials;
• Drafting and guiding the working procedures for operation of patent team; and
• Performing other tasks as required from time to time such as corporate work as part of our business development, client support, billing, and other administrative tasks.

Technical Skills

• University degree in electronics, AI, IT, chemistry/biology.
• Has a Law Degree; preferably qualified as an IP Attorney;
• Above 10 years relevant IP experience gained in sizable firm;
• Good understanding of the IP practice in Vietnam;
• Ability to deal with foreign clients independently;
• Train and guide younger members of team and share knowledge;
• Excellent written and spoken English;
• Wants something different and wants to join foreign practice and be in a fun unstuffy culture;
• Mature, stable and independent;
• Good interpersonal skill, cross-cultural sensitivity and management skills;
• Litigation experience is useful, as is litigation advice and developing litigation strategy.

Working Condition

• Working place: Hanoi
• Salary: Negotiable based on candidate’s experience.
• Other benefits: as per Company’s policy such as performance bonus and private health care program.
• Professional and multicultural working environment.
• Professional external and internal training.

How to apply
For immediate consideration, you can send a resume with your ID photo and a cover letter mentioning your gross salary expectation (in VND/month) and your availability to start working if you are hired to vietnamhr@rouse.com.