Remote IP Docketing & Legal Assistant Specialist

Judy L. Oyhenart

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Dykema Gossett PLLC, Austin, TX May 2025 – Present IP Docket Coordinator

Full docketing support for IP practice. Receiving, reviewing, docketing USPTO documents, foreign IP documents, client correspondence, and IP filings. Prepare daily docket reports and weekly dockets. Troubleshoot patent/trademark filings. Providing training on docketing system and various IP topics.

IP & Litigation Legal Assistant July 2021 – Present Supporting 2 partners and 1 associate in busy chemical and mechanical patent, trademark, and IP Litigation practice. Independently drafting correspondence and legal documents for attorney review including draft patent applications and responses, patent formalities documents, trademark applications, trademark responses and maintenance forms, and copyright applications; reviewing applications and responding to patent formalities requests; performing specification and claims reviews; creating and maintaining cross-citing charts and preparing information disclosure statements; drafting and editing of litigation pleadings; inputting and reviewing time entries, reviewing draft client invoices and statements, reviewing monthly billing invoices, researching payments and receivables; opening files, maintaining paper and electronic files; drafting engagement letters; processing expense reimbursements and US foreign vendor payments; reviewing/maintaining case and attorney dockets; docket maintenance and docket clearance; preparing training materials for IP practice; filing/e-Filing documents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, WIPO, U.S. Copyright office, various state and federal courts; providing backup and assistance with other in IP practice Norton Rose Fulbright, Austin, TX January 2019 – July 2021 Practice Coordinator

• Supported Partner and 3 Associates in busy chemical and biomedical domestic and foreign patent prosecution practice

Nixon & Vanderhye P.C., Ballston, VA March 2015 – December 2018 IP Legal Assistant

• Supported Partner and Associate in busy biomedical & mechanical domestic and foreign patent prosecution practice, drafted/maintained client procedure manuals, trained staff on client procedures

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, Washington, D.C. June 2014 – March 2015 Executive Assistant

• Full support for Director/Practice Group Leader, including patent prosecution and patent maintenance, branding, and trademark maintenance

Jacobson Holman, PLLC, Washington, D.C. July 2007 – June 2014 Legal Assistant/Paralegal

• Full support for 2 Partners in patent prosecution practice and Senior Associate and Associate in trademark litigation practice

SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Westlaw, LexisNexis, WordPerfect; Billing software (Elite, Timeslips, SAP, Expert Time), Document Management Software (IPManager, FTF, iDocs, Filesite, NetDocs); e-filing (USPTO, WIPO, State and federal courts), Docketing software (Pattsy, Inprotech), Expense Management Software (Concur, Chrome River)

EDUCATION

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale VA/Manassas VA College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA (2 years) James W. Robson High School, Fairfax, VA (Graduate)