Junior Intellectual Property Advisor

Reference Code: 91440**Junior Intellectual Property Advisor**:

- Richemont- Bellevue, GE, CH- PermanentRichemont owns some of the world’s leading luxury goods Maisons, with particular strengths in jewellery, fine watches and premium accessories. Each Maison represents a proud tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont seeks to preserve the heritage and identity of each of its Maisons. At the same time, we are committed to innovation and designing new products which are in keeping with our Maisons’ values, through a process of continuous creativity.

**MAIN PURPOSE**

As a Junior Intellectual Property Advisor, your role is to provide IP and administrative support to two senior Intellectual Property Advisors in the management of all IP issues relating to one or several Maisons of the Group (save patents).

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- **Providing IP work and related administrative support **two** Intellectual Property Legal Advisors**
- Assisting IP legal Advisor in conducting worldwide searches and clearance checks for potential trademarks and collection names.
- Assisting IP legal Advisor in all tasks relating to trademark, copyright and design rights prosecution in close coordination with paralegals and assistants
- Assisting in daily trademark surveillance checks and subsequent opposition matters.
- Conducting celebrity clearance checks.
- Drafting and/or reviewing agreements relating to, inter alia, external designers, communication agencies, architects, collaborations with third parties, image rights, celebrity/personality rights, photographers’ agreements, research and development agreements etc
- Assisting in reviewing products, and conducting IP clearance checks where necessary (designs, copyrights or other).
- Assisting in reviewing, providing IP clearance checks and advice on all communication materials (whether on or off line)
- Assisting in preparing and followings IP litigations for the Maison(s) worldwide, including collecting evidence with the Maisons, drafting business to business or cease and desist letters and/or reviewing draft writs and briefs.
- Assisting in the preparation and presentation of IP-related training programmes to the various operational teams within the selected Maison(s).
- **Providing general administrative support to **two** Intellectual Property Legal Advisors**
- Assisting IP legal Advisor in producing reports or documents on DIAMS / Phoenix, / Excel / Word/ Powerpoint
- Managing hard copy filing, e-filing and the archiving and retrieval of documents as and when required.
- Diary management (Outlook and Phoenix), including legal deadlines, team deadlines and organising meetings and appointments
- SAP vendor creation and documentation collection, data amendments
- Dealing with the payment and processing of invoices in liaison with Accounts department. Checking and approving invoices following SAP process and codification, liaise with agents to ensure proper invoicing
- Ad hoc translation of documents from French to English and vice versa for internal documents only
- Monitoring the budget spend and producing quarterly budget reports for relevant Maisons.
- Providing assistance in the preparation of all IP-related reports (checklist, budgets, etc )
- **Coordinating global administrative support across the team**
- Proactively participating in IP Support staff forum meetings to streamline procedures, improve efficiency, communication and coordination within the IP team
- Participating in the checklist reporting tools
- Providing administrative support and organizing back up among assistant and Junior IP advisor team where and when needed.

**Requirements**:

- University degree in Law with a specialisation in IP (Intellectual / Industrial Property) or equivalent,
- Summer internships or previous professional experience a plus
- Analytical, pragmatic and enthusiastic
- Flexible, agile and service oriented
- Excellent team player
- Fluent English and French are a must (additional language a plus)

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