Role: IP Practices Assistant
Location: Southampton, UK
  
The Role:

An excellent opportunity is available for an experienced IP professional to join a leading intellectual property firm in a key practice support role. This position supports best-practice development across patent, trade mark, and design matters in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment. You will play a central role in driving process improvement, training, and system optimisation across the firm. Hybrid working is available, combining office-based collaboration with flexibility.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain, and update practice guidance, templates, manuals, and key engagement documents
• Support the development and delivery of training on current and new IP practices across the firm
• Monitor daily EPO, WIPO, EU IPO and UK IPO updates and communicating any relevant information firm wide.
• Assist with implementing and embedding practice and process changes, including system updates
• Liaise with internal teams, external IP offices, and third parties to support operational excellence

The Candidate:

• Extensive experience working within an intellectual property firm
• Strong working knowledge of patent, trade mark, and design rules and regulations, ideally with the relevant CIPA and/or CITMA certificate.
• Experience of working with IP portfolio management systems (ideally Inprotech), patent office systems (e.g. EPO Line, ePCT etc.) and document management systems (ideally iManage).
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Self-motivated and able to drive actions forward; with a positive attitude.
• An ability to work to deadlines and under pressure.
• Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to quality control.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team; with experience of working in projects.
• Proven time management, planning and organisational skills.

  
If you meet the above criteria, please send us your CV.