Debra S. Rush

2570 Samuelson Road, Portage, IN  46368

(Home) 219 763-2430 • (Cell) 219 771-2430 • (E-mail) rush.debras@aol.com

 

Summary

Legal Administrative Assistant with extensive experience in IP Patent Prosecution skills. Provide administrative and secretarial skills to attorneys, paralegals, LAAs and LASs in accordance with firm policy.  Daily work with PAIR, e-filings. Annuities (CPA). Proficient in IDS procedure, ISAs. Assignments, including chain of title. Proficient in Adobe Reader, Microsoft Office, Outlook.  Proficient in Elite time entry (Task Codes), PATTSY and CPI, Hummingbird DM, Chrome River, File Surf, New Business Intake.  All US and PCT forms. Initiated and composed patent prosecution steps for department manual at Morton.  Created patent prosecution sample binder at Baniak, Pine & Gannon.

 

Professional Experience

Husch Blackwell merged Welsh & Katz, Legal Administrative Assistant, 6/05 – 1/14

Responsible for time entry (Elite) with Task Codes, New Business Intake, Proforma corrections, including billing adjustment process.  Transcription and editing from tapes and handwritten material.  Prepare letters and memos. Use Chrome River, Meeting Manager, File Surf, CPI and PATTSY, copiers/scanners, arrange for outside services. Docket coordination between Firm and major Client Docket Department.  Coordinate work performed with other departments per firm policy.  Written and verbal communication with USPTO Examiners, clients and inventors.

 

Baniak, Pine & Gannon, IP Legal Assistant, 4/03 – 11/04

Process patent applications, including PCT.  Maintain daily docket.  Process payables.  Review correspondence and compose response.  Light PowerPoint, Excel, Access and Publisher.  Light trademark and litigation.

 

Michael Best & Friedrich LLC merged Laff, Whitesel & Saret, Ltd., IP Administrator, 11/99 – 7/02

Process patent applications (95% foreign) and light trademark.  Maintain daily docket.  Process Receivables and Payables daily.  Preparing expense reports.  Review all PTO mail, draft responses.  Review file and compose letter responsive to mail received.  Enter timesheets; review pre-bills, edit, and mail out final.  Light litigation.

 

Morton International, Inc. merged Rohm & Haas, Patent Law Secretary, 11/94 - 11/99

Process and maintain patent applications worldwide, also trade secrets.  Process agreements - non-disclosure and license.  Maintain daily docket and schedule.  Coordinate travel arrangements and prepare expense reports.

 

Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi & Blackstone, Patent Law Secretary, 7/92 - 10/94

Process and maintain patent applications for 1 patent attorney.  Assist with foreign filing.  Provide clerical support for trademark attorney.

 

Mayer, Brown & Platt, Floating Legal Secretary, 2/88 - 11/91

Assigned on a daily basis to cover a position requiring clerical support due to illness or vacation.  Types of law varied.  Light litigation.

 

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, Patent Law Secretary, 6/84 - 2/88

Process and maintain patent applications for 1 non-name partner.  Partner oversaw foreign filing department. Responsible for processing PCT applications.  Provided support to foreign filing department.

 

Education

IPLEGALED, On-Line Paralegal Education, Silicon Valley, CA

Patent Paralegal Course:  Certificate - April 2007

 

John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL

Continuing Education:  IP Law PCT Seminars, 2001; 2003

 

Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

Continuing Education:  Business, Secretarial and Real Estate, 1978 - 1979

 

Purdue University North Central, Westville, IN

Associate Secretarial Arts, May 1976

Minor:  Nursing Technology:  Chemistry and Pharmacology