About the role

Pearce IP is looking for an experienced and qualified Trade Mark Attorney able to work across the Australian and New Zealand jurisdictions. You will join our team to manage and grow an existing Trade Marks portfolio. Working part-time approximately 20 hours per week, there is flexibility in both hours and location.

The successful candidate can be based anywhere in Recent South Wales, Victoria, Queensland or New Zealand and work from home. If based in Sydney, the role will be undertaken in a hybrid capacity, spending some time working from home and some time in our office at Martin Place.

Key Responsibilities In this role you will provide Pearce IP clients with strategic and effective branding strategies, draft and prosecute trade mark applications, and manage contentious disputes (working alongside Pearce IP litigators where appropriate).

Working independently and with the support of a Trade Marks & Patents Executive Assistant, the successful candidate will:

- Be qualified to practice as a Trade Mark Attorney across Australia and New Zealand
- Manage, work on and grow an existing trade marks portfolio
- Collaborate with lawyers and attorneys from other business units to support their clients and grow the trade marks practice
- Provide legally sound, independent, and commercially appropriate branding strategies and services, including contentious and non-contentious trade marks matters before IP Australia and IPONZ
- Advise on infringement of registered and unregistered trade marks
- Manage or assist Pearce IP’s litigation team with the management of trade mark enforcement and infringement proceedings in ANZ
- Assist with the commercialisation of trade marks across multiple jurisdictions
- Develop ideas and content for thought leadership material (eg articles and blogs) about legal and commercial trade mark issues.

About you You will be an experienced Trade Mark Attorney who is operating at Special Counsel level. You may also be a lawyer but that is not an essential requirement.



What is essential is that you have the following experience:
- Managing and growing a practice focussed on trade mark advice, prosecution and enforcement
- Building and implementing effective brand protection and enforcement strategies in Australia and New Zealand
- Providing advice to clients regarding brand protection in Australia and New Zealand and key overseas jurisdictions, including pursuant to the Madrid Protocol
- Trade mark common law and register searches
- Confidently converting new opportunities.

About Pearce IP Pearce IP is an award-winning specialist IP firm offering intellectual property lawyer, patent attorney and trade mark attorney services to a diverse client base, with many of our clients in the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotech and other life sciences industries. Our team is based across Australia and New Zealand, and we develop, coordinate and execute local and multi-jurisdictional IP litigation strategies. Pearce IP also provides services relating to regional and global business development activities and licensing deals, and drafts and prosecutes patent and trade mark applications around the world.

Pearce IP is committed to and celebrates a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are a workplace where it is normal to see women in leadership and where pay equity is a given.

Benefits

- Birthday leave

- Generous parental leave
- Still birth and miscarriage leave

- Menopause and menstrual leave

- Study support
- Sorry business & Tangihanga leave
- Loyalty recognition: employees are provided with an additional week of annual leave each year after five years' employment

How to apply Please submit your CV and cover letter for consideration by clicking on the “Apply” button.

If you would like further information, a position description, to confidentially discuss any adjustments you might require throughout the recruitment process, or wish to discuss the role, please contact Pearce IP’s HR Officer, Aysa-Lily Moir at [email protected] or phone on (phone hidden).

📌 Part-Time Trade Mark Attorney Special Counsel (Sydney)
🏢 Pearce IP
📍 Sydney