Trademark Paralegal
TR/079204
Posted: 18/09/2025
- Competitive
- United States, California, Sunnyvale
- Contract
Trademark Paralegal (Contractor)
Irvine, CA (Hybrid – Onsite Mon/Tues/Wed, Remote Thurs/Fri)
$30/hr
Standard Business Hours
Through December 2025
Orion Group is seeking a Trademark Paralegal Contractor to support our pharmaceutical client’s Legal Department in Irvine, CA!
This role will focus on assisting attorneys with U.S. trademark prosecution, maintaining trademark records, supporting disputes, and ensuring compliance with legal and procedural requirements. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly organized, and experienced in managing trademark-related work.
Key Responsibilities
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Irvine, CA (Hybrid – Onsite Mon/Tues/Wed, Remote Thurs/Fri)
$30/hr
Standard Business Hours
Through December 2025
Orion Group is seeking a Trademark Paralegal Contractor to support our pharmaceutical client’s Legal Department in Irvine, CA!
This role will focus on assisting attorneys with U.S. trademark prosecution, maintaining trademark records, supporting disputes, and ensuring compliance with legal and procedural requirements. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly organized, and experienced in managing trademark-related work.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and organize documentation and information requests related to trademark disputes.
- Conduct comprehensive trademark searches using the USPTO database and other platforms.
- Prepare and file prosecution documents (applications, declarations of use, specimens, etc.) with the USPTO and other agencies.
- Retrieve, review, and maintain trademark dockets to ensure accuracy and timely responses.
- Draft clear, concise communications including cease & desist letters and correspondence with outside counsel.
- Support attorneys with fact finding, case preparation, and investigative activities.
- Liaise with outside law firms, internal employees, and senior management on trademark matters.
- Bachelor’s degree or Paralegal Certificate (ABA-approved program).
- Minimum 2 years of trademark prosecution experience (USPTO filings, declarations of use, specimens).
- Proficiency in conducting trademark searches and database research (USPTO and other major platforms).
- Ability to draft effective legal communications (letters, emails, trademark-related documents).
- Strong experience reviewing and managing trademark dockets.
- Excellent organizational, writing, and analytical skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and legal software/database management systems.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Danielle StGeorge
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