Patent Coordinator

Career Category Law/Legal Job Description 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.

What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will support the Biotechnology and Process Development patent practice within the Intellectual Property and Litigation group. The Patent Coordinator works closely with patent attorneys, patent agents, inventors, Patent Operations, and outside counsel to keep patent filings, records, and deadlines accurate and moving forward. This role can be based at Amgen’s headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California;
Amgen's site in Cambridge, Massachusetts; or at Amgen’s site in South San Francisco, California. Also considering remote workers.

• Prepare, assemble, proofread, and file attorney-directed patent documents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), including documents supporting patent applications and amendments, declarations, information disclosure statements (IDSs), assignments, powers of attorney, and other prosecution documents.
• Prepare filing shells and supporting documents for Office Action responses and other prosecution submissions; coordinate review and approval with the responsible attorney or agent and file approved documents by the applicable deadline.
• Maintain and monitor attorneys’ patent prosecution dockets in IP Management System (IPMS). Review incoming USPTO, WIPO, foreign associate, and internal correspondence; enter and verify actions and dates; run docket reports; follow up on open items; and promptly flag approaching deadlines, missing information, and potential timing risks to the responsible attorney.
• Maintain complete and organized electronic matter files in IPMS, including correspondence, file histories, filing receipts, and relevant documents. Confirm that Patent Operations can access documents needed for foreign filings and related work.
• Prepare and file IDSs based on attorney instructions and maintain citation matrices and related citation records in IPMS.
• Coordinate foreign filing formalities with the responsible filing facilitator and outside counsel, including requests and processing for powers of attorney, assignments, declarations, and other required documents.
• Process, record, and track patent assignments and supporting documents, including coordinating execution, filing, and recordation as directed.
• Provide administrative support to attorneys and agents, including prioritizing and routing communications, preparing correspondence, maintaining calendars and files, scheduling meetings, coordinating travel, and assisting with reports and other projects.
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