Patent Agent
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 microbiome science, molecular hydrogen therapy, advanced nutraceutical formulations, and future-facing biologic innovation. Your work could help accelerate inventions designed to improve millions of lives around the world. You’ll operate at extraordinary speed alongside an AI-powered invention engine while still owning the human judgment that matters most. Your expertise will shape 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. 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.
Requirements
- Active USPTO Patent Bar registration in good standing.
- Minimum 4 years of patent prosecution experience post-registration.
- Minimum 50 substantive biotech, pharma, or life-sciences patent matters handled.
- Strong life-sciences educational background; MS or PhD strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated strength handling §112 enablement and written-description strategy.
- Comfortable operating independently without attorney supervision.
- Experience using or evaluating AI-assisted drafting workflows.
- Comfortable in a high-speed, production-oriented in-house environment.
Nice To Haves
- Prior in-house pharma or biotech IP experience.
- Prior experience at leading biotech-focused IP firms.
- Experience with microbiome, molecular hydrogen, biologics, or nutraceutical patenting.
- Familiarity with FDA/FTC-adjacent claim considerations.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted prosecution workflows.
Responsibilities
- Review, redline, prosecute, and file biotechnology patent applications generated through the Patent Engine workflow.
- File provisionals, non-provisionals, continuations, and PCT applications through USPTO Patent Center.
- Sign all filings under your own USPTO Patent Agent authority without attorney supervision.
- Respond to office actions including §112 enablement/written description, §102/§103 prior art, and applicable §101 matters.
- Conduct examiner interviews when strategically beneficial.
- Identify claim-scope issues, prior-art blindspots, and unsupported mechanism-of-action claims in AI-generated drafts.
- Provide structured feedback that improves Patent Engine drafting performance over time.
- Partner with scientists, formulators, and inventor teams to convert disclosures and lab findings into prosecutable claim strategies.
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
