Job Summary

•    Portfolio & Records Management – ensure completeness of IP team records on various internal platforms and repositories. Responsible for working with external counsel on IP matters globally. Responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Group’s intellectual property portfolios (registered trade marks, granted patents and copyrights).  
•    IP intelligence and trade mark search platforms - using various IP intelligence and search platforms for identifying prior IP rights, watch service, and horizon risk monitoring. Prepare preliminary findings and advice from data derived from such platforms.
•    IP filing, prosecution and registration - Prepare draft filing instructions and responses to Trade Mark Examination Reports
•    Partner and collaborate with stakeholders at both Group and Country in various Business Units and Functions (including Legal, Corporate Affairs Brand and Marketing, and SC Ventures) to ensure transactions and initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Day to day administration of the Group’s global intellectual property portfolios including:
•    conducting preliminary inhouse trade mark and patent searches;
•    co-ordinating multi-country trade mark and patent searches;
•    working with IP & Brand lawyers on the filing of trade mark and patent applications,
•    docketing of official IP office action deadlines,
•    monitoring and ensuring the timely renewal of registered IP including collation of evidence of use and ensuring the execution of declaration where required,
•    maintenance of all requisite country IP office documentation including powers of attorney;
•    assist in supporting any IP dispute matters including oppositions, revocations and court related disputes, and complaints filed with regulators and social media organisations; and
•    working with external counsel in relation to the above where such matter has been briefed out.

Responsible for the internal maintenance of IP & Brand team records including:
•    Group’s internal policy in relation to trade marks;
•    collating evidence of use for all of the Group’s Masterbrands and other strategically important trade marks;
•    IP documents including settlement agreements and licences;
•    Leading on all financial administration matters related to global external counsel spend, tracking and reconciliation of external counsel fee quotes with invoices rendered for specific matters;

Key Behaviours
•    Taking personal and team responsibility for achieving the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles. 
•    Governance: establish strong relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, while independently performing own duties.

•    Risk management: provide guidance and support on legal and operational risk identification and management.
•    Commercial: pragmatic, creative and solution-oriented with good judgment and decision-making skills.
•    Proactive: able to use initiative and ready to identify issues without being asked.
•    Flexible: able and willing to work long hours and, at short notice, travel to, and work in, challenging environments for periods of time (if required).
•    Team player: personable, responsible, helpful.
•    Organised: able to prioritise workload and manage conflicting priorities to meet deadlines. Strong attention to detail to highlight potential risks in contracts and errors.
•    Reliable, tactful, discreet, diplomatic: able to work with staff across varying levels of seniority and from different nationalities and cultures.
•    Self-motivated: able to operate independently with minimal supervision.
•    Energetic: enthusiastic about the role, the function and the Group.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Lead the function  to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
•    Legal & Company Secretariat
•    Corporate Affairs, Brand & Marketing
•    Wealth & Retail Bank
•    Corporate Commercial & Investment Bank
•    Technology & Operations
•    SC Ventures

Skills and Experience

•    Knowledge and understanding of intellectual property specifically trade marks and copyright. This includes conducting and analysing registered trade mark searches, drafting trade mark specifications, protecting trade marks including filing and prosecuting trade mark applications. 
•    Knowledge of patents, design rights, contracts, disputes and litigation and advertising law.
•    Experience in the banking industry (whether through in-house or private practice) is preferred but not mandatory.
•    Experience in using IP intelligence and trade mark search platforms (e.g. CorSearch, TrademarkNow, PatSnap etc) to conduct clearance searches, risk assessments and ongoing brand monitoring.
•    Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and influence where necessary
•    Experience in data management specifically relating to data on IP registrations, internal team matters, external counsel budgets, conducing IP audits, and managing renewals.

Qualifications

•    Prefer a candidate with experience with intellectual property matters whether in private practice or within an inhouse IP team.
•    Any legal or IP qualifications – e.g. Registered Malaysian Trade Mark Agent (as recognised by MyIPO) or qualified to practise law in Malaysia with a recognised law degree (LL.B or equivalent).

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.