News Corp
Senior IP Paralegal
News Corp, New York, NY
**Job Description :**
News Corp is seeking an experienced Intellectual Property Paralegal to join their HQ IP team in New York, NY. This role is crucial in managing global brands such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, HarperCollins, and the New York Post. Successful candidates should have extensive prior IP experience working in a busy corporate legal department.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage global trademark, copyright, patent, and domain name portfolios
- Handle prosecution, enforcement, and litigation matters
- Conduct in-house trademark clearance searches and prepare summaries for attorney review
- Review trademark searches and collect specimens of use
- Prepare trademark maintenance and renewal applications
- Assist with copyright registration procedures
- Perform basic patent docketing and maintenance
- Maintain and update IP databases
- Correspond with foreign counsel and vendors worldwide
Qualifications
**Experience and Education:
- 8+ years of domestic and international IP paralegal experience
- Bachelor's degree required
- Prior law firm experience preferred
**Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Saegis database and USPTO's eTEAS system
- Familiarity with WebTMS or similar trademark docketing systems
- Experience with Copyright Office website functions
- Expertise in online database tools for IP management
**Core Competencies:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
- High attention to detail and organizational skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Capability to handle complex issues and maintain accuracy
This position offers an exciting opportunity to work with globally recognized brands in a dynamic corporate legal environment.
Job Category:
Pay Range: 85,000 - 110,000
We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.
For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.
Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets
News Corp is seeking an experienced Intellectual Property Paralegal to join their HQ IP team in New York, NY. This role is crucial in managing global brands such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, HarperCollins, and the New York Post. Successful candidates should have extensive prior IP experience working in a busy corporate legal department.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage global trademark, copyright, patent, and domain name portfolios
- Handle prosecution, enforcement, and litigation matters
- Conduct in-house trademark clearance searches and prepare summaries for attorney review
- Review trademark searches and collect specimens of use
- Prepare trademark maintenance and renewal applications
- Assist with copyright registration procedures
- Perform basic patent docketing and maintenance
- Maintain and update IP databases
- Correspond with foreign counsel and vendors worldwide
Qualifications
**Experience and Education:
- 8+ years of domestic and international IP paralegal experience
- Bachelor's degree required
- Prior law firm experience preferred
**Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Saegis database and USPTO's eTEAS system
- Familiarity with WebTMS or similar trademark docketing systems
- Experience with Copyright Office website functions
- Expertise in online database tools for IP management
**Core Competencies:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
- High attention to detail and organizational skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Capability to handle complex issues and maintain accuracy
This position offers an exciting opportunity to work with globally recognized brands in a dynamic corporate legal environment.
Job Category:
Pay Range: 85,000 - 110,000
We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.
For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.
Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets