Chartered Trade Mark Attorney

We are seeking Chartered Trade Mark Attorneys with 3+ years post qualified experience to join our expanding intellectual property team which is headed up by James Love. James has a successful career spanning more than 30 years, with wide-ranging international experience, He is a regular speaker at international conferences and his committee roles include 10 years sitting on the prestigious Law Society Intellectual Property Law Committee which promotes and lobbies for improvements in intellectual property law nationally and internationally, on the Law Society International Committee and on the advisory panel of the Leeds City Region China Business Club. 

The busy team supports offices in 7 locations across the country and works closely with colleagues in 19 offices across the USA (where we have over 150 IP specialists). By joining our Global Top 100 law firm, you will work within an experienced, knowledgeable, flexible and supportive group which has built up a strong reputation, particularly in internationally focussed work and in sectors such as retail, fashion, energy and a growing involvement in life sciences.

The roles on offer are all-encompassing, with aspects beyond your average Attorney role. Crave variety? With the opportunity to be involved in UK and EUIPO matters, international trade mark and design portfolio management, trade mark registry disputes, corporate due diligence, the drafting of licences and commercial agreements, domain name disputes, and infringement actions, you can make monotony a thing of the past. Our high profile and varied client base also makes for an impressive workload.

To be successful in this role, you'll need as a minimum:

• At least 3 years post-qualification experience in trade mark prosecution, enforcement, and advisory work.
• Experience with a firm with a strong IP reputation, or from a suitable in-house position.
• Experience of drafting licenses, assignments and oppositions.

What makes it great to work here?

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working, full-time or part-time working patterns.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity Equity & Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about DEI at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring. 

We are an in-house recruitment team and will always aim to fill our roles directly in the first instance.