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Patent Attorney Prosecution Expert

$110 - $125 per hour
Full-time

Mercor

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey .

Position: US Patent Attorney Prosecution & Litigation

Type: Contract

Compensation: $110$125/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 1215 hours total

Role Responsibilities

  • Review patent-related outputs and assess their quality against defined dimensions.
  • Annotate inline flagging legal technical factual claim-construction and citation errors.
  • Provide clear well-reasoned explanations for each judgment.
  • Complete all assigned reviews within the review window.
  • Attend a short onboarding session before kickoff.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Admitted to practice in at least one US state (active bar membership).
  • 3 years of US patent practice in prosecution and/or litigation .
  • Registered to practice before the USPTO for prosecution work.
  • Hold a technical or scientific degree (engineering computer science life sciences chemistry physics or similar).
  • Hold a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school.
  • Write clearly and pay close attention to detail.

Preferred

  • USPTO registration number (patent bar).
  • Experience at an AmLaw 100 firm or a leading patent boutique.
  • Federal Circuit or district-court patent clerkship.
  • Prior data annotation AI evaluation or legal-benchmark experience including prior legal AI projects with Mercor.

Start Date

  • Immediately required

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

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Vacancy posted 7 days ago
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