Executive, Legal Department

at  Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

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Great ideas do not discriminate, and anyone can have them. Given the right protection and support, a great idea can become a power brand, a transformative technology, an innovative process or design, or even a song or story that moves one’s soul.
Housing Singapore’s largest community of intellectual property (IP) experts, IPOS understands better than anyone how important it is to protect ideas and creations for now and the future. We leverage on our deep technical, legal and business expertise to help innovative enterprises grow, through their intangible assets, including IP, from Singapore, through Singapore. We catalyse the ideas today, into assets tomorrow.
The Legal Department stewards and facilitates the formulation and development of national IP policy, ensuring that national IP laws remain relevant in our fast-changing world. The department also represents Singapore’s interests in IP matters at various international forums and during treaty/trade agreement negotiations. We are looking for an individual who is keen to be a key contributor to achieving our ambition to join our team.

You will:

• Handle the department’s knowledge management and record management of physical and online files;
• Support the execution of routine or simple document review and information collation, to support legal counsels in their matters;
• Support the secretariat of the Copyright Tribunal including managing case files, hearings and communications with the tribunal and parties;
• Support legal counsels in collective management organisation related activities;
• Maintain the Network Service Providers online directory;
• Update the department’s content on the IPOS website;
• Assist the department in organising, coordinating and following-up on meetings, stakeholder engagement, public education and outreach activities;
• Assist the legal counsels in vendor management activities;

Handle general administrative tasks (including representing the department in administrative matters) and develop and update operational processes.
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