Overview
- Location: US
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Practice Group: Intellectual Property
This role involves preparing and prosecuting patent applications for technology clients, with a focus on cellular and wireless communications. The position includes meaningful responsibility, direct client interaction, and work on sophisticated, technically demanding patent portfolios.
Responsibilities
- Draft and prosecute U.S. patent applications involving wireless communications, cellular technologies, networking, signal processing, and related technologies.
- Coordinate foreign patent prosecution and work with international counsel on global patent portfolios.
- Prepare responses to Office Actions and manage deadlines across an active patent prosecution docket.
- Work directly with inventors and other technical personnel to understand new technologies and develop appropriate patent protection.
- Collaborate with partners and other practitioners on patent strategy and portfolio development.
- Conduct prior art searches and analyze prior art in connection with patent prosecution and portfolio development.
- Analyze technically complex disclosures, standards, and prior art and translate them into effective patent prosecution strategies.
- Manage matters with a high degree of independence while maintaining consistently high standards for technical and patent prosecution work.
Requirements
- Strong patent drafting and prosecution skills.
- Excellent technical judgment.
- Ability to understand complex technologies and translate them into clear and strategically valuable patent claims.
Compensation & Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for enrollment in Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans.
- Full-time employees are eligible for a 401(k) retirement program.
- The employer uses E-Verify to confirm employees' work authorization.