Senior Associate Paralegal - Trademark; US - Remote

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions.

As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Join Amgen’s in-house Trademark, Copyright and Brand Protection Team and play a critical role in protecting and strengthening one of the world’s leading biotechnology brands.

Amgen is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Intellectual Property Trademark Paralegal to support the management, protection, and enforcement of our global trademark portfolio. In addition to trademarks, this position offers the opportunity to work on a broad range of intellectual property matters, including trademarks, domain names, copyrights, brand protection, customs recordations, AI initiatives, and strategic business transactions.

Working closely with in-house attorneys, paralegals, business stakeholders, foreign associates, and outside counsel, the successful candidate will help drive trademark, copyright and domain name strategy and portfolio management while ensuring the timely handling of prosecution, enforcement, and maintenance activities worldwide.

• Manage worldwide trademark filings, including prosecution, maintenance, renewals, and communication with business stakeholders.
• Prepare and file trademark applications, Madrid Protocol applications, and other trademark prosecution documents with appropriate trademark offices, including gathering and organizing all necessary information.
• Communicate directly with foreign associates regarding trademark prosecution and maintenance, and enforcement matters, including opposition and cancellation proceedings.
• Review and analyze trademark watch notices and recommend potential enforcement actions.
• Coordinate and manage responses to office actions, oppositions, cancellation proceedings, and other trademark disputes, including evidence in support thereof.
• Prepare and review affidavits, declarations, powers of attorney, assignments, and related trademark documentation for execution.
• Assist attorneys with intellectual property due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and other transactional matters.
• Support domain name portfolio management and enforcement activities, including domain name registrations, renewals, transfers, monitoring, Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceedings, and online trademark enforcement through website, marketplace, and social media takedown programs.
• Collaborate with Amgen’s outside vendor on global customs recordation and brand protection initiatives, and supporting international customs enforcement activities with Brand Security.
• Maintaining and renewing U.S. Customs trademark recordations in-house.
• Maintain accurate trademark…