Patent Agent - Biotechnology
About The Position
This is the kind of role patent professionals talk about for the rest of their careers. You won’t inherit a slow-moving legal department buried in layers of review. You’ll help build one of the most ambitious biotechnology patent operations being assembled anywhere today. You’ll protect discoveries across molecular hydrogen therapy, microbiome science, advanced formulations, and future-facing biologic innovation. Your work could help accelerate inventions designed to improve millions of lives around the world. You’ll operate with rare ownership. Your judgment. Your signature. Your prosecution strategy. Your name on the filings. You’ll work beside an AI-powered invention engine moving at extraordinary speed while still owning the human expertise that matters most. You’ll help reshape the future of how breakthrough scientific discoveries move from concept to protected intellectual property. This is not a maintenance role. It is a chance to help set a new standard for modern biotech patent prosecution. Your next 5 minutes could land you in our top 5% shortlist — click Apply to start your application (a short, simple step to put you in the running). Registered USPTO Patent Agent — Biotechnology Domain. Location/Schedule: Remote. Purpose: Own end-to-end biotechnology patent prosecution for one of Mercola Health Sciences’ highest-priority technical domains.
Requirements
- Active USPTO Patent Bar registration in good standing.
- Minimum 4 years of patent prosecution experience post-registration.
- Minimum 50 patent applications drafted, prosecuted, or substantively responded to in biotech, pharma, or life sciences.
- BS minimum in a relevant life sciences field; MS or PhD strongly preferred.
- Strong experience with enablement and written-description strategy.
- Ability to operate without attorney supervision and sign filings under your own authority.
- Comfort with AI-augmented patent drafting workflows.
- Comfort in a small in-house team rather than a large-firm partnership track.
Nice To Haves
- Prior in-house experience at a major pharma or biotech IP group.
- Prior patent-agent track experience at a top patent prosecution firm.
- Direct experience with hydrogen therapy, microbiome, or nutraceutical patenting.
- Working knowledge of FDA and FTC adjacency.
- Hands-on experience using AI-based drafting tools in production prosecution.
Responsibilities
- Review, redline, prosecute, sign, and file AI-drafted patent applications.
- Own biotechnology-domain prosecution across hydrogen therapy, microbiome modulation, nutraceutical formulations, and adjacent biologic or biochemistry claims.
- File provisionals, non-provisionals, PCT applications, and continuations through USPTO Patent Center.
- Respond to office actions involving enablement, written description, prior art, claim amendments, and arguments.
- Conduct examiner interviews when strategically useful.
- Identify claim-scope issues, missing support, prior-art blind spots, and mechanism-of-action overreach.
- Feed redline patterns and rejection insights back into the Patent Engine.
- Coordinate with scientists, formulators, and microbiologists to convert lab results into prosecutable claim sets.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employer Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
- Optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Spending Accounts
- Dayforce Wallet – get paid as you earn
- Employee Discount
- Retirement Planning (401k with matching contribution)
- Pet Insurance
- Wellness Program Offerings
- Paid Time Off, accrued per pay period based on years of service, starting at 20 days annually.
- 9 Paid Holidays per year, including 1 floating holiday.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
