Supervisory Patent Examiner Trainer
6 months ago
The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virg.....
The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia.This position is telework eligible per agency and business unit discretion/policy.
The ideal candidate will have enthusiasm for sharing their technical knowledge/expertise with others while serving in a leadership role
Major Duties for this position include:
* The incumbent manages a training laboratory with a staff that includes new Patent Examiners, training assistants and instructors.
* Incumbent makes authoritative interpretations of legal precedents which involves decisions on the technology examined by examiners in the Patent Academy and for performing a number of related duties such as determining whether two or more applications contain conflicting subject matter.
* The incumbent exercises the full range of supervisory duties reviewing and evaluating the performance of all assigned patent examiners in the USPTO office of Patent Training, Patent Training Academy.
* Incumbent provides technical, legal and patent examining practice and procedure training and assistance to assigned junior patent examiners.
* Develop and conducts training sessions for groups of junior patent examiners within the Academy on selected patent examining practice and procedure topics.
* The incumbent provides technology and search assistance to examiners.
* Incumbent conducts a thorough analysis of the skill level and training needs of the junior patent examiners assigned to the Academy.
* The incumbent when not in the lab, is expected to manage other assigned projects.
This vacancy is for all disciplines.
Starting at $156,299 Per Year (GS 15)
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