Catherine Wolf Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Manage the Docketing and Annuity Departments with Practice Systems. I work with supervisors to develop, maintain, and improve procedures and services, including assessing workloads and productivity of staff.Responsible for personnel, policies, procedures and operations of the patent and trademark docketing and annuity departments. This includes hiring, managing and evaluating staff in various positions and locations.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Facilitate communication and serve as liaison to other departments with regard to docketing data.Work with all departments to maintain data integrity between docketing database and other firm database.Work with firm management to establish and maintain firm IP practices, procedures, and systems in accordance with USPTO and foreign rules.Identify, prepare and analyze data and areas where enhanced training would reduce errors and risk issues.Maintain, revise, follow-up and implement docketing procedures, identify and institute training initiatives, and maintain docketing manuals and intranet resources.Create, maintain, and generate docketing and statistical reports for management, attorneys, and clients.Create and maintain reports used for the purpose of maintaining data consistency and accuracy.Facilitate communication between docketing database vendor and IT Department regarding database maintenance, updates and software issues.Manage and analyze the firm's use of the docketing system and update system as IP rules and firm practices change.

Greater Chicago Area

Researched and designated enhancements for applications that provide increased functionality, utility and user experience.Maintained product road maps.Reviewed application requests from clients, internal staff and other users.Participated in application development demonstrations and user acceptance testing.Developed and maintained product documentation, including user guides and training materials. Trained clients, employees and trainers.Supported marketing and sales efforts.Provided tier 2 application support.

Reviewed and updated docket for all incoming correspondence for Foreign, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and European Patent Convention (EPC) jurisdictions.Generated periodic dockets for attorneys, assistants and clients.Reviewed and performed periodic country law updates related to patents and trademarks.Generated both internal and client facing reports.Assisted in the creation of new client matters.Assisted with creating a customer list for the transfer of outgoing client files.Performed system mass updates of attorney, assistant and client information as required.Reviewed and updated open events on the docket to ensure critical deadlines are met in a timely manner.Performed clearance of docket actions as required.

Provided Master Data Management services as System Administrator of the ANAQUA online IP Management Software for PatentsDeveloped training materials and provided training sessions throughout Kimberly-Clark and its global affiliate and business partners, including international travel.Migrated data from PC Master Intellectual Property Database and Smart Counsel systems by writing business logic and mapping the data fields to the Anaqua Intellectual Property Database.Implemented the Anaqua Intellectual Property Database as the new software for management of Kimberly-Clark’s intellectual property, including inventions, patents, agreements, oppositions, third party patents and general matters.Provided system administration assistance for configuration of the software to accommodate ongoing business changes.Interacted and provided direction to business partner IT analysts and programmers for project maintenance and issue resolution.Provided Account Administrator assistance for users of the Aureka Online Search (AOS) Tool. Designed Crystal (SQL) reports and SSRS (SQL) Reports for extraction of data relating to Kimberly-Clark's intellectual property and budget information.Ran SAP reports for responsibility reporting of financial information relating to the patent budget.Oversaw the domestic and international docketing of patent applications and patents.