IP Senior Legal Assistant

Location: Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Salary: $73,947–$115,542 annually, plus a 6% annual bonus target.

Company

hirify.global develops chemistry-based solutions focused on sustainability, industrial applications, and improving lives worldwide.

What you will do

• Manage communications from US and non-US patent offices and legal agents, including docketing, filing, and maintaining electronic docket folders.
• Review practitioners’ dockets for deadlines, create response templates, and resolve formal and procedural issues.
• Coordinate US reference citations, review office actions and search reports, catalogue cited references, and prepare submissions to the USPTO and foreign patent offices.
• Prepare and file patent prosecution documents, coordinating signatures, notarizations, legalizations, and supporting documents.
• Manage patent maintenance activities with practitioners and external legal service providers.
• Monitor the IP docket database, support system changes, maintain patent portfolio data integrity, and participate in process simplification projects.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED with 5–8 years of relevant experience.
• Strong hands-on understanding of US and non-US patent processes, including formal and procedural requirements.
• Experience with ePCT Portal, USPTO Patent Center, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, and electronic docketing systems.
• Ability to independently identify, handle, and resolve significant patent docket issues.
• Work is based at the Wilmington, Delaware location.

Nice to have

• Experience with the Anaqua AQX patent and spend management system.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work within a growing intellectual property group.
• Participation in projects that simplify work processes and improve operational efficiency.
• Annual bonus target of 6%, subject to business and individual performance.
• Work connected to sustainability, chemistry, and industrial innovation.