Patent Agent - Supplement Delivery
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 operation built by someone else. You’ll help build one of the most ambitious supplement-delivery patent platforms being assembled anywhere today. You’ll protect breakthrough innovations in advanced delivery systems, next-generation wellness formulations, and technologies designed to help health solutions reach people more effectively around the world. Your work could help accelerate discoveries that influence millions of lives. You’ll operate with rare ownership. Your judgment. Your signature. Your prosecution strategy. Your name on the filings. You’ll work alongside 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 formulation innovation becomes protected intellectual property. This is not a maintenance role. It is a chance to help build a model the industry may eventually try to imitate. Years from now, others may study systems like this. You’ll know you helped build one of the first. 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 – Supplement Delivery Domain
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 formulation, drug delivery, supplement, or food-science domains.
- Strong technical degree in Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacy, Food Science, or Chemistry.
- Demonstrated experience drafting and defending enablement positions on range claims.
- Ability to operate without attorney supervision.
- Comfort with AI-augmented patent drafting workflows.
- Comfort working 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 Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, or comparable pharma or CPG formulation IP group.
- Prior patent-agent track experience at Finnegan, Fish & Richardson, Knobbe Martens, or Sterne Kessler.
- Direct experience with microencapsulation, controlled-release, or bioavailability-enhancement patenting.
- Working knowledge of FTC supplement-claims adjacency.
- Hands-on experience with AI-based drafting tools in a production prosecution setting.
Responsibilities
- Review and redline AI-drafted patent applications in the supplement delivery domain.
- File provisionals, non-provisionals, PCTs, and continuations through USPTO Patent Center.
- Sign filings under your own USPTO Patent Agent authority.
- Respond to office actions, including enablement, written description, prior art, amendments, and arguments.
- Conduct examiner interviews when strategically beneficial.
- Identify range-support gaps, prior-art blind spots, and missing comparative examples.
- Feed redlines and rejection patterns back into the Patent Engine.
- Coordinate with formulation, pharmaceutical science, and inventor teams during disclosure intake.
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
Senior
