Paralegal Specialist

• Maintain a clear understanding of role responsibilities, including scope, boundaries, and appropriate escalation points.
• Complete assignments with initiative, attention to detail, and sound discretion under moderate supervision.
• Exercise logical judgment by recognizing when guidance, coordination, or escalation is needed.
• Contribute as an engaged member of the team by delivering legal support services within established parameters, procedures, and oversight.
• Participate in knowledge transfer, cross-training, and shared learning activities by sharing knowledge, experience, and best practices to strengthen team capability, effectiveness, continuity, and business resilience.
• Partner effectively with team members to balance workload, provide backup support, and share accountability for any joint/shared responsibilities.
• Maintain working knowledge of applicable Company policies, guidelines, and internal controls, including authorization, delegation of authority, agreement approval/signature guidelines, and third-party due diligence requirements, among others.
• Maintain proficiency in Legal, Company, and vendor systems used to support assigned responsibilities; engage subject matter experts, as needed, to ensure alignment with current best practices and recommended use.
• Apply creativity to solve problems or to develop/suggest new or improved processes and proactively identify and suggest changes which enhance the team's effectiveness and productivity.

Specific Responsibilities

• Support U.S. and international trademark docketing and filing operations by providing docketing services for copyrights, trademarks, and trademark watches, maintaining IPMS trademark law updates and related docketing impacts, processing new filing requests, and coordinating abandon decision processing for trademarks.
• Read and analyze all incoming client mail (including U.S. Mail, e-mail, courier packages, faxes) for the IP Case Team that relates to trademark matters to determine due dates or reminder dates that need to be entered into the IPMS and annotates docketing entries as appropriate.
• Maintain accurate operations data, system records, reference resources, and authority documentation by performing data integrity reviews including patent annuities and trademark renewals.
• Manage centralized processes related to patent and trademark maintenance and abandonments, ensuring patent applications are not abandoned, and trademark applications are not lapsed, and working with vendors to ensure requirements, clarifications and renewal reminders are addressed.
• Work with trademark brand team to make decisions on trademark renewals not meeting renewal criteria.
• Process and update patent and trademark laws in the IP Management System, review law changes to ensure they are working properly in the system and identify any changes to work processes.
• Export renewal and abandonment batch files, processes renewal and abandonment CEF files from renewal vendor, and with other vendors, outside counsel, and experts as needed.
• Work with Intellectual Capital Managers to determine working statements for specific jurisdictions and provide data to third party vendors.
• Investigate and perform research using external sources, as necessary.

A minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience.

• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of copyright and trademark processes, terminology, documentation, and deadline requirements, with the ability to apply applicable procedures and filing requirements accurately.
• Proficiency with legal, company, and vendor systems used for patent and trademark maintenance, trademark docketing, document preparation, filing, and recordkeeping.

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing. Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals. • Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).

• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only). • Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees' Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.

• Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
• Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
• Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group's (ERG) participation.
• Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
• On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
• Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
• Additionally, some of our locations might offer: • Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
• Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
• Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)

Join our team, we can make a difference together.