Herndon Intellectual Property Consulting : Jane Silarajs

Jane Silarajs

LifeScan, Inc. May 2002-present
Patent Paralegal. Duties include preparation of documents, amendments, responses, filing patent applications, correspondence with foreign associate counsel, general correspondence. Training junior patent secretary.

Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis May 2001-February 2002
Foreign Filing and Docket Supervisor. Duties include overseeing daily tasks of the docket and foreign filing personnel; review and revise certain client standard form letters; train docket and foreign filing personnel; correspondence with foreign associates, docketing, filing PCT applications and national phase applications; correspondence with clients.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati May 1997-May 2001
Foreign Filing Manager. Duties included overseeing foreign filing group and docket personnel; training; review standard client letters; prepare and revise standard client letters; filing of PCT applications and national phase applications; correspondence with clients and foreign associates; initiate certain systems in connection with foreign filing; presentations concerning PCT and foreign filing procedures, rules and regulations for attorneys and secretaries.

Graham & James February 1992-May 1997
Patent and Trademark paralegal, duties included docketing all trademark and patent correspondence, both U.S. and foreign; preparation and filing foreign patent applications and foreign trademark applications; filing U.S. trademark applications; correspondence with clients and foreign associates, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; authorization of payment of annuities.

Townsend and Townsend June 1970-January 1992
Patent secretary, duties included preparation of patent applications and accompanying documents; preparation of trademark applications and accompanying documents; preparation of copyright applications and accompanying documents; correspondence with clients and the United States Patent and Trademark Office; correspondence with the Copyright Office. In 1974 established the foreign filing department as a foreign filing specialist, whose duties included filing foreign patent applications; correspondence with foreign associates and clients; authorization of payment of annuities; establishing procedures and putting them in place; legal research. In 1978 became a patent/trademark paralegal, duties included correspondence with clients and foreign associates; preparation of assignment documents both domestic and foreign; monitoring trademark portfolio.

Docket Systems: CPI and PATTSY.

Wed, July 23 2008