Offer summary

Qualifications:

Chartered Trade Mark Attorney with 2-4 years PQE (considering outstanding candidates outside this range), Experience in trade mark prosecution and contentious matters, Ability to provide clear and commercial legal advice, Experience managing trade mark portfolios across various industries..

Key responsabilities:

Managing complex client portfolios including trade mark applications and monitoring programmes

Conducting trade mark searches and providing opinions on registrability

Drafting and filing trade mark applications and representing clients in oppositions

Collaborating with clients to develop effective trade mark strategies aligned with their business objectives.

Job description

Trade Mark Attorney

Our Trade Mark team is renowned for its expertise, with a focus on providing exceptional legal services to clients across various industries. The team is ranked in WTR1000 and in the top UK TM filers for 2024, showing a 58% increase in UK filings year-on-year and there is more to come! Exciting client wins and an increasingly active client-base mean that the team is busy and needs support.

Accordingly, we are looking for a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney with a guide PQE of 2-4 years (outstanding candidates outside of that band will be considered) to join our team of talented professionals and make a meaningful impact in the growing practice area.

About Harper James

Harper James is a national commercial law firm designed to support entrepreneurial businesses from start-up to exit. We aspire to disrupt the model for which legal services are provided to businesses. The firm’s innovative approach to delivering highly tailored and accessible legal advice is considered genuinely different to the establishment.

Harper James was founded in 2014 and continues to grow at c40%+ year on year. This financial year, more than 150 people will support more than 4,000 businesses and our turnover will exceed £14.5m. We expect to double in size over the next 2 years.

What we offer

Our lawyers work on an employed and flexible basis, working remotely with access to meeting space in Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield and Southampton.

We work really hard to ensure our lawyers still feel part of a team so they can collaborate, share ideas and enjoy each other’s company. The remote set up allows people to work from wherever they want, to give people the flexibility they need, for whatever reason. We want people to feel that they belong to an ambitious company and that their contribution towards our growth is recognized individually and as a team.

What does the ideal candidate look like?

The successful candidate will be a well-rounded Chartered Trade Mark Attorney with significant trade mark prosecution and contentious experience. We are looking for someone with a range of experience spanning clearance work, prosecution, contentious and litigious matters, settlement negotiations, online brand protection and domain name disputes. The successful candidate will be able to give clear, concise and commercial advice and quickly join the dots between a client’s business goals and how its trade mark portfolio can help accomplish them.

You’ll have experience managing trade mark portfolios for clients in a number of different fields and industries, and for businesses of various sizes.

What you will do

Your client base will range from cutting edge SMEs, medium size enterprises and larger businesses across multiple industry sectors.

You will be advising on a broad range of matters and covering all aspects of UK and international trade mark practice including:

Assisting with and/or managing complex client portfolios. This includes managing trade mark applications, managing monitoring programmes, advising on renewals, running clearance programmes and working on oppositions and other contentious matters, as well as domain name disputes and online takedowns.
Conducting comprehensive trade mark searches and provide opinions on registrability and potential infringement issues.
Drafting and filing trade mark applications.
Representing clients in trade mark oppositions, cancellations, and enforcement proceedings.
Providing strategic advice on brand protection and trade mark-related disputes
Working with our network of international agents to provide clients with a one-stop-shop solution for their worldwide brand protection.
Collaborating with clients and internal teams to develop effective trade mark strategies aligned with business objectives.

The bottom line

This is an opportunity to play a fundamental part in the growth of the trade mark practice.

An environment with no politics, no bureaucracy and a great team of people who all play a fundamental part in the success and continued growth of the business.