EXPERTISE

Extensive years of legal experience, 10 of which are in patent prosecution/intellectual property.

Knowledge of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Dialog (patent Databases). Excellent skills in client relations, problem solving, working well with others, and highly organized. Paralegal Certificate.

EXPERIENCE

Dupont (Through Robert Half Legal) (November 2019 – CURRENT )

Contractor/Patent Legal Secretary

International Patent Assistant for the Legal Group providing coverage providing support with five attorneys. Continued and consistent support with USPTO filings (working from the office and remotely) to the attorneys and the firm. I filed all patent applications, IDS Response to Office Action, Response to Restriction Requirements and docketing.

Rutan & Tucker (Through Pathways Personnel) (March 2018 – July 2018)

Contractor/Patent Legal Secretary

Held a contract position in the Patent Prosecution Department, providing interim coverage for Administrative Secretaries to provide continual and consistent support to the attorneys and the firm. I covered desks as needed and performed various other tasks and projects.

Morgan Lewis (Through Robert Half Legal) (July 2017 – October 2017)

Contractor/Patent Specialist Floater Secretary

Held a contract position in the Patent Prosecution Department, providing interim coverage for Administrative Secretaries to provide continual and consistent support to the attorneys and the firm. I covered desks as needed and performed various other tasks and projects.

DLA Piper LLP (Through Robert Half Legal) (October 2016 – April 2017)

Contractor/Patent Specialist

Held a contract position in the Patent Prosecution Department. Duties included keeping all Information Disclosure Statements (IDS) current for all clients, handling the docket for IDS's only, filing and maintaining all IDS's for the clients on a daily basis, knowledge of all aspects of patent prosecution, corporate law, employment law, and labor law.

Tyco Electronics, Corporation (Through Robert Half Legal) (December 2015–June 2016)

Contractor/Patent Specialist

Contract position which entailed being responsible for opening, sorting, and distributing incoming mail, docketing, pulling files and creating memos containing due dates for the attorneys, maintained daily and bi-monthly dockets, kept track of the Deposit Account and reconciliation for the financial department, opened new cases and closed out the concluded ones, maintained CPI and Tymetrix records, and handled invoices.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP (January 2012–May 2015)

Patent Prosecution Specialist

Began as a Contractor in the Menlo Park office as an overflow Patent Prosecution Secretary. A position was subsequently created for me to work exclusively for one client with the team in the San Francisco office. I thereafter supported four attorneys with day-to-day operations of all prosecution matters including maintaining the client's prosecution docket, U.S. filings and foreign matters. I also sent out daily reports to the client to assure that they were kept up to date on every matter that we maintained. If time permitted, I would assist with any issues that arose in the office. I was proficient in USPTO E-Filings and some PCT but mainly for the U.S. I went above and beyond to keep the workflow even for everyone that I was responsible for.

Carr & Ferrell LLP (February 2011–October 2011)

Client Coordinator/Patent Assistant

Assisted with management of the attorney-client relationship, drafting, editing, and proofreading of documents for filing and uploading with the Patent Office, contacted U.S. Patent and Trademark Office representatives, docketed, tracked billable hours, and performed filing and general administrative tasks as needed. Worked with the accounting department to monitor clients’ account status, created and updated patent status reports, set up and prepared materials for attorney-client meetings, investigated prosecution-related issues in PAIR and other patent document management systems.

Avistar Communications (August 2008–October 2009)

Patent Prosecution Administrative Assistant

In-house position handling patent prosecution (U.S., PCT and foreign), patent docketing, special projects, and scheduling, client interaction, filing organizational and maintenance according to patent specific formats, maintaining all files from an in-house standpoint, and preparing correspondence to outside counsel representing our files. Experienced in US, PCT and foreign prosecution, patent calendar/docket and special projects, scheduling, client interaction, filing organizational and maintenance according to patent specific formats; client engagement matters (including conflict of interest checks). Special projects included Dialog Searches (inventor and assignee searches in US, EPO and World Patent Index Databases), support on IP due diligence teams, client patent docket/file organization and clean-up projects, ordering/indexing of file histories and other patent documents, preparation and compilation of presentation materials for conferences and/or seminars.

EDUCATION

Skyline College, San Bruno

Associate of Arts Degree, 3.5 GP Average

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