Patent Agent - Biotechnology

Mercola • Cape Coral, FL

4d • Remote

About The Position

This role is for a Patent Agent specializing in Biotechnology, offering a unique opportunity to build and shape an ambitious biotechnology patent operation. The position involves protecting discoveries in areas such as molecular hydrogen therapy, microbiome science, advanced formulations, and biologic innovation. The role emphasizes ownership, allowing the agent to manage their own prosecution strategy and signature. It involves working alongside an AI-powered invention engine while leveraging human expertise to accelerate the process of moving scientific discoveries from concept to protected intellectual property. This is presented as a proactive role focused on setting new standards in biotech patent prosecution, rather than a maintenance position.

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.
• 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

• MS or PhD strongly preferred.
• 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
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior