Trainee Patent Attorney - Manchester, United Kingdom - Appleyard Lees

Appleyard Lees

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Key Responsibilities

You will need to be articulate and good at communicating, particularly in writing. Our work can sometimes be multidisciplinary and collaborative, and you will need to work with attorneys in other disciplines. So, you will need to have good people skills and be able to work in a team.Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Have a degree or PhD in Physics/Theoretical Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or similar.
Preferably, your degree included modules focussed on Artificial Intelligence/machine learning, but this is not essential.
Knowledge of and interest in any of the following areas would be advantageous: machine learning models, image recognition, object detection, speech recognition, natural language processing, robotics, and data mining.
Good communicator both in writing and verbally.

Benefits:

We pride ourselves on being small and friendly enough for you to get to know everyone but big enough to offer you great career prospects. We will assign you with a mentor who will be able to provide professional and personal support throughout your training contract. Providing people with a mentor is a critical part of enabling development and knowing if individuals are 'on track' in terms of their career path and progression, it also helps with improving knowledge and skills.
Other benefits we offer include:
34 hour working week
A blend of office and home working
Annual salary review
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Life assurance
Healthcare cash plan
Social outings summer parties, AL Junior events, Christmas party and more
A voucher on your birthday
Charity events games nights and fuddles
A friendly and inclusive place to work and learn

About Appleyard Lees

Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm with approximately seventy patent and trade mark attorneys and litigators across offices in Halifax, Leeds, Manchester, and Cambridge.

We provide a full range of intellectual property (IP) services covering patents, trade marks, designs and copyright in the UK, Europe and worldwide.

We use our technical and legal skills, and many years of experience, to identify and protect IP assets and to uncover and eliminate the risks posed by other people's IP rights.

Who we are, and what we do but also, how we do it makes us distinctive._

Our clients include some of the world's most exciting innovators, largest companies, and household names, with a number of clients obtaining Fortune 500, Fortune Global 2000, FTSE 100, FTSE 250, and Forbes Global 2000 status.

Our clients operate across a diverse collection of industries, including chemicals, retail, consumer goods, electronics, software, bio and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, metals, and heavy industry, higher education, and hospitality, leisure, and tourism.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) has always been part of the core values of Appleyard Lees. To us, diversity is not just a box-ticking exercise, it is a core part of our firm's values.

Diversity of people means diversity of ideas and perspectives, and these allow us to be more creative and flexible as a business.