Are you ready to elevate your career through imagination, discernment, and ingenuity? Join the dynamic and skilled team empowered to preserve the legal, equitable, and procedural rights of trademarks owners and the public. As an Administrative Trademark Judge (ATJ), you'll work together with other judges to provide impartial and fair determinations of trademark registration disputes, while upholding the integrity of the Principal and Supplemental Registers and the registration system.

Duties

If you're ready to promote and protect the interests of trademarks owners and the public, then this amazing opportunity within the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) is open to you! If you're motivated and ready for your next challenge, come join the agency that drives economic growth and national prosperity, and celebrates and supports the diverse cultures of its employees. As an Administrative Trademark Judge (ATJ), you'll work together with other judges from diverse backgrounds as a cohesive collaborative unit to further the mission of the TTAB. An ATJ serves as a member of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO. The TTAB has the authority to: Review ex parte appeals of adverse decisions on trademark applications made by trademark examining attorneys; Review and decide inter partes oppositions to applications, petitions to cancel registrations, and concurrent use proceedings; Review and decide contested interlocutory motions in inter partes proceedings in collaboration with TTAB interlocutory attorneys and judge panels; Evaluate evidence, and arguments and citations presented in briefs filed in contested trademark trial cases and appeals; Engage in conferences with TTAB attorneys, judges and parties involved in trials and appeals, arising under Federal trademark registration statutes. As an ATJ, you will: Review arguments and evidence provided in motions, briefs and oral hearings; Effectively work with colleagues to analyze and decide legal and factual issues; Prepare and issue timely, high-quality decisions, that are consistent with statutes, regulations, case law, and agency policies; Display professionalism and judicial decorum; and Perform any task that supports the mission of the USPTO and the TTAB, such as: participating in stakeholder engagement, leading project teams, contributing to policy development, and developing best practices. The decisions of the TTAB are final in the Executive Branch and are subject to review, through appeal, only by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or by civil action in a U.S. District Court. The TTAB judges serve under the general administrative direction of the Chief and Deputy Chief Administrative Trademark Judges, TTAB. All adjudicatory functions are performed without supervisory review, although performed in concert with other assigned judges on each panel. The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, VA. However, this position is telework eligible in accordance with TTAB telework policy. "Position approved for telework, including options for 100% telework and in the TEAP program, which allows telework from a home office anywhere in the United States or Puerto Rico."

Requirements

• You must be a U.S Citizen or National.
• Background and or Security Investigation and fingerprint check if selected for position.
• Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov)

Qualifications

You must have significant, specialized experience at a level close to the work of this job that has given you the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities required to successfully perform in the position. Typically, we would find this experience in work within the Trademark field or general IP field with a significant Trademark component and would be acquired over an extended period in the private practice of IP law, in IP-related government positions, or similar legal work. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Applicants are required to input narrative responses to the Professional/Technical Qualifications (PTQs) in the text boxes as prompted by USAJobs. Each PTQ has a 10,000-character limit (to include spaces) that must be adhered to. Do not write "see resume". Uploaded documents addressing the PTQs will not be accepted. For the following three PTQs, you are required to submit a narrative response addressing your specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that demonstrate your possession of these qualifications. Tell us about a position you held or a particularly complex case or matter you worked on, while having to manage multiple competing priorities, including assigned work of your own, collaborative work with others, while meeting prescribed deadlines, productivity goals and quality standards. Please describe the types and quantity of cases, projects, and/or training that led to your knowledge of historical trademark law concepts, the Trademark Act, The Trademark Rules of Practice, The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, The Federal Rules of Evidence, trademark assignments and licensing, common law governing the acquisition of ownership rights of marks, and precedential decisions of the courts and the TTAB. Tell us about two experiences where you needed to find the important facts in a case and to apply pertinent statutory and case law to those facts to reach a decision or make a recommendation. These experiences may include sifting through pleadings, motions and exhibits, testimony depositions and exhibits, discovery requests and responses, documentary evidence filed by notice of reliance, and legal memos or briefs.

Education

The candidate must have a law degree from an accredited law school program and must be a member of a bar in good standing, in the United States or a Territory of the United States.

Contacts

• Address EXRD - Trademark Trial and Appeals Board Office of Human Resources Mail Stop 171 P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, VA 22313-1450 US
• Name: Leah Reynolds
• Phone: 571-270-0412
• Email: [email protected]