Docket Specialist

Staff designated at Dickinson Wright PLLC as a Docket Specialist function as part of the IP Administrative team, working with attorneys and staff to manage and maintain client’s critical deadlines utilizing the firms centralized docket database.

Requirements

• Support clients, attorneys and other staff members by performing an administrative role and handling detail-oriented and critical tasks
• Maintain electronic files on behalf of clients
• Manage mail and emails from Patent and Trademark Offices, and local Agents
• Receive, analyze and enter critical deadlines in the Firm’s centralized docketing database
• Audit patent and trademark records against publicly available information
• Monitor and clear the critical docket to ensure no deadlines are missed
• Write and execute specialized docket reports
• Process large docketing projects, including new client intakes
• Work as a team to prioritize tasks
• Research foreign and domestic patent and trademark law

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision
• 401(k) and profit sharing plans
• Paid vacation
• Parental leave
• Health flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• Identity theft protection
• Dependent day care reimbursement account
• Commuter benefits
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short- and long-term disability protection
• Employee assistance program
• Emergency travel assistance