At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

This position is a member of the Invention Disclosure workstream within the IP Specialist’s COE team and reports to the Invention Disclosure Manager. The Legal Assistant IV will provide support to IP Attorneys as well as the inventor community to assist in efficiently processing invention disclosures and timely filing priority applications. The ideal candidate for this position will not only effect change but also thrive in an environment that values employees work and ideas.

Location: this position can work from any US Medtronic office location or potentially work remote.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

Maintain up-to-date task calendar to ensure duties are handled timely.
Generate invention reports as requested.
Rely on patent prosecution knowledge to ensure matters are handled in a fashion that abides by applicable patent laws.
Engage in bi-weekly team calls to ensure potential issues are raised and addressed.
Monitor incoming new disclosures for upcoming usage and public disclosures, alerting in-house attorneys and outside counsel as needed.
Supports IP department’s projects and initiatives
Create and maintain accurate priority patent matters using standards set by team.
Assist in creating meetings with both in-house attorneys, outside counsel and inventors.
Assist in special projects as they arise to enhance team efficiencies.
Work in tandem with the US and OUS teams to ensure assignments are completed correctly based on attorney decisions.
Organize and lead monthly docket meetings with attorneys.
Maintain accurate invention records within the internal asset management system.
Collaborate with internal attorneys as well as our outside counsel to maintain accurate File by Dates to assist with budgeting and reporting.
Provide back up support to other Invention Disclosure Specialists.
Perform weekly and monthly audits to ensure the accuracy of data on active records.
Alert in-house attorneys and outside counsels of filing restrictions based on inventor citizenship, residency, and/or applicant details.
Collaborate with in-house attorneys and tax as needed to obtain assignment chain particulars.

MUST HAVE: MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

High School Diploma or GED with 6+ years of administrative experience to include experience within legal corporate or legal office setting

NICE TO HAVE:

Experienced in Anaqua
Experienced in managing multiple calendars for attorneys.
Experienced in Excel and Power Point applications.
Excellent communication skills.
Experience and skills working with IT systems such as electronic billing, file management, and matter management systems.
Project management experience.
Experience in a medium to a large sized law firm or a corporation.
Ability to clearly communicate with senior management within an organization.
Foster a strong team dynamic.
Experience working with team members who are not geographically co-located.
Demonstrated ability to think creatively about how to do more with less, and how to lean out complex processes.
Experience in SharePoint and Teams.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):69,600.00 - 104,400.00

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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