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Junior Patent Examiner at US Patent and Trademark Office
Posted Apr 10, 2012
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Arlington, VA (took a day)
Interviewed with one principal patent examiner and one HR rep at the same time. Was asked to explain my background, qualifications, interest in the job and knowledge of the patent prosecution.
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I Applied Online.
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Junior Patent Examiner at US Patent and Trademark Office
Posted Mar 25, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
Online application, after 2-3 weeks I leaned I am eligible and application referred to the hiring manager, after 2-3 weeks I was notified of interview, choice for on campus vs phone interview. Chose the latter. Reviewed the USPTO and patent Examiner video online (link provided by USPTO), and general prep. First question was : What do you know about the USPTO and intellectual Property, next ?: how would you finish 4 different tasks with same deadline; how would you handle constructive criticism and give an example; how would you accomplish your tasks while sharing your limited resources with others and give an example; how would you motivate others and give example;
Apparently I was not fully prepared and did not get an offer. Suggetion: with better preparation, one can ace it.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Junior Patent Examiner at US Patent and Trademark Office
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
The Interview was quite simple. I received a telephone call by a SPE. Another SPE also listened in on the interview. One SPE asked all of the questions which were mostly behavioral. The questions consisted of "how would you do your assignments if you had them due the next day?" or "explain a time when you had to in depth technical research and report such research to someone else" etc. As of the moment, I'm not sure if they are going to give me a job or not since I just interviewed a few days ago.
For some of the questions they asked me, I could not recollect my experiences so I just answered them in a hypothetical fashion.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Junior Patent Examiner at US Patent and Trademark Office
Posted Sep 12, 2009 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2007 in Alexandria, VA (took 5 weeks)
1. Submitted my resume to the USPTO.gov website. Called several times to follow-up, but that did not help. Finally received a call about 5 weeks later. Told them I would be in the D.C. area in a few weeks for a job fair
the USPTO was having. Arranged a meeting then.
2. After that, received another phone-call basically seeing if I could construct an a English with proper sytax and grammar. After that, another 3 weeks passed.
3. Finally, received an email with the offer and salary amount, GS grade. Called and accepted the offer.
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Negotiation Details
There was none. Its the Government. GS scale pretty much leaves no room for negatiation. Either you
have the degree/experience or not.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Junior Patent Examiner at US Patent and Trademark Office
Posted Aug 29, 2009 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2008 in Alexandria, VA (took a day)
Interviews were being held at City College in New York. Everybody first sat through a 30 minute presentation of an overall summary of the job, the facilities on campus, etc. After the presentation, each person was assigned to an interviewer. My interviewer was a SPE- a supervisory examiner- who had a form of generic interview questions (the questions are the same for everyone). It was a pretty easy interview. My interviewer even called human resources to hire me immediately! Basically, you know if you're going to be hired or not after the interview.
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There is no negotiation. You enter the PTO at a certain grade level eg. if you have a masters you enter at GS-9, which has a specific payscale.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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