Trainee Trade Mark Administrator

Trainee Trade Mark Administrator – Bath Office

Salary: £23,500 per annum (for a 35‑hour week)

Have you considered a career helping businesses and creators protect their ideas and innovations?

With an office in the heart of Bath, Abel & Imray LLP is a firm that excels at advising on all aspects of patents, trade marks and designs in the UK, Europe and around the world. We also have offices in London, Cardiff, and Delft, Netherlands. A large part of what we do is assisting UK and international clients to protect their intellectual property (“IP”), whether that’s obtaining patents for their latest inventions, acquiring trade marks for new brands, or registering the appearance of new products with registered designs.

The Bath office is a friendly and vibrant working environment housed in modern offices in the centre of the city. It has over 50 staff split between fee‑earning legal professionals (patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys, and associated trainees) and specialist support staff, including patent administrators, trade mark administrators, patent paralegals, and trade mark paralegals.

We are now looking for a Trainee Trade Mark Administrator to join us as part of the support team of paralegals and other admin staff in this challenging and rewarding work.

As you begin the journey towards becoming an Administrator, you will be guided by structured and practical training and will learn how to provide efficient organisational support to our trade mark attorneys by assisting them with administration tasks and various other office duties. Having the interest to learn administration skills goes without saying, but you’ll also need to be the kind of person who enjoys a challenge and likes using your initiative.

In return, we’ll give you training and a varied and rewarding working environment.

• Correspondence with clients and trade mark offices around the world.
• Typing – including revision of documents and tailoring standard documents.
• Formalities relating to trade mark procedures, including preparation of forms.
• Maintenance of electronic files.
• Diary management.
• Preparing charges and invoices.

Prior experience is not required or expected – we will train you! We are primarily looking for someone bright, keen to learn, happy to undertake the training required to equip you for the role, and excited to be part of a team of paralegals and other support staff that help us serve our clients.

Whatever your circumstances, if you have at least a few of the following skills (or the ability to quickly acquire them), we’d love to hear from you:

• Strong English language skills.
• Competency at maths / basic arithmetic (with a calculator).
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Curiosity and a willingness to learn.
• Ability to use your own initiative and be a positive team player, with a ‘can‑do’ attitude.
• Basic IT / PC skills – e.g. word‑processing / using Microsoft Office.
• Organised and methodical.
• Comfortable working with deadlines.
• Good communication skills.

• Private Medical Insurance
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Flexi‑time and hybrid working opportunities
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric car scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Annual flu jabs
• Social events
• Mentoring scheme
• Free period care within our offices
• Career Progression:
  Ongoing support towards a full qualification and an environment where your career can blossom
• Inclusive Culture:
  We have a long history as an inclusive, equal opportunities employer and are proud members of IP Inclusive. That means treating everyone fairly, as well as respecting each employee’s personal goals and ambitions.

Abel & Imray is a firm of patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys. Patent attorneys are like geeks turned lawyers – a love of science and technology helps, as most of the inventions we protect are science‑based. All our patent attorneys have a STEM degree and learn about patent law when training on the job. Very few patent attorneys have a law degree – we are not solicitors or general lawyers.

Trade mark attorneys do not need a science degree but, as with patent attorneys, they learn the law and the skills of the attorney as part of…