Trainee Patent Attorney

About The Role

Initially, the successful candidate will be working with the partners and professional staff to manage existing clients. Over time, the candidate will be expected to build their practice which will include participating in the firm’s business development activities to strengthen our domestic and regional client base further.

The successful candidate is encouraged to qualify as a Singapore patent attorney and the firm will offer assistance in achieving this goal. Depending on your professional qualifications and subject to receiving appropriate exemptions, this may involve passing only the qualifying examination in Knowledge of Patent Law and Patent Practice in Singapore.

About You

We are looking for trainee attorneys or attorneys qualified in Singapore, UK, Europe, Australia or New Zealand, ideally with one to five years' post-qualification experience in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE), ICT, or similar.

We welcome dynamic and personable candidates to join our friendly and supportive working environment and contribute to the fast growing IP scene in Singapore.

About Us

Marks & Clerk Singapore LLP is part of the international Marks & Clerk Group with 16 offices worldwide. Our Singapore office currently has 15 Patent Attorneys who are qualified in at least one of the jurisdictions listed above. We have won the Managing Intellectual Property award for ‘Singapore Prosecution Firm of the Year’ four consecutive years in a row since 2014, and again in 2019. We are listed in the top tier for patent and trade mark work in Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars guide and Asia IP’s annual survey. Our patent practice is also consistently listed in the top tier of the Asia Legal Business IP rankings and IAM Patent 1000.

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