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Title: Patent Integration OfficerLocation: UK – Hybrid with travel to offices as neededThe PositionAs a Patent Integration Officer, you will play a crucial role in our integration team, ensuring a seamless and efficient data transfer process. This position is vital for enabling our clients to effectively enforce their intellectual property (IP) rights, aligning with our commitment to operational excellence and client satisfaction. You will manage the 'take on' of cases and assignments, ensuring compliance with legalities and internal procedures, and maintaining high standards and agreed costs. Your responsibilities will include recording changes in IP ownership, drafting client-facing reports, and liaising with international law firms to obtain jurisdiction-specific pricing and requirements. Additionally, you will validate IP data, manage data entry and verification, and oversee the preparation and submission of recordals. You will also identify opportunities for process improvements and work with the Process Improvement Manager to implement these changes.About YouThe ideal candidate will have previous experience in Patent Formalities, ideally at the Officer level, with a strong background in managing high-volume data entry. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formatting, sorting, and using functions like VLOOKUP to cross-check data, is essential. Additionally, experience with translation tools is preferredAbout HGF:HGF Limited is one of Europe’s largest intellectual property specialist firms offering a fully integrated IP solution, bringing over 200 Patent Attorneys, Trade Mark Attorneys and IP Solicitors together to provide a full-service IP solution.With 24 offices across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland & Austria, HGF’s Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys provide specialist technical and legal advice to blue chip organisations and small to medium businesses across the world. Many of our clients are household names and the work HGF does allows them to protect and exploit their inventions, new products and branding.Why move to HGF?HGF takes a transparent and merit-based approach to your career development and you will have the opportunity to shape your long-term progression.We’re a firm with a focus on DEI (Diversity, Equality and Inclusion), with a staff led DEI Focus Group, affinity networks and a DEI Board sponsor As a business we have a dedicated Learning and Development team focused on career long development of your skills along with a digital learning platform covering a wide range of contentBenefits including our award winning enhanced parental leave policy, 27 days holiday, bonus scheme and flexible working HGF ValuesPeople - People matter. We treat people fairly, with respect and compassion. We foster a friendly, inclusive and enjoyable culture for everyone to prosper in. We invest in our people and offer appropriate coaching and training to assist with development and learning. We promote a healthy work-life balance. Progression is based on merit.Excellence – We strive to be the best. We pursue excellence in all our individual roles resulting in outstanding legal and technical advice for our clients. Our people are pragmatic, responsive and commercially minded. We do not presume but listen to understand so we can engage proactively and appropriately.Teamwork – We stand together. We work with our clients to protect their interests, and with each other as a mutually supporting firm. We value, appreciate and listen to others, regardless of role, recognising each individual’s particular blend of talent, skill and experience. We are individually and jointly accountable and take responsibility for our actions and decisions.Progressive – We innovate. We continually improve our services and processes through understanding, creativity, and investment. We evolve by taking opportunities and adopting new business procedures, unencumbered by historical structures or out-of-date attitudes. As a firm, we have an entrepreneurial spirit, and encourage new thinking in our people.