Patent Agent

Can be located in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Antonio, San Francisco, St. Louis, or Washington, DC

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Patent Agent

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

Firm is seeking a registered Patent Agent with a Bachelor’s degree or graduate degree (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Physics or related technical field involving AI/ML to join the firm’s Patents practice. Experience with AI models, neural networks, deep learning required. Candidates must have experience with AI/ML theory – backpropagation, regularization, optimization; preprocessing data, selecting features, training/tuning models; and deploying models to production environments. Domain experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, natural language processing, wireless communications, computer vision or related AI fields is preferred.

Duties include, but are not limited to, drafting and prosecuting patent applications; Collaborate with inventors to understand new AI technologies and assess their patentability; conducting and analyzing the results of prior art searches and freedom-to-operate analyses; and maintaining knowledge of the latest AI technology and patent laws in order to assist internal and external. The ideal candidate will have experience liaising with clients to develop and manage portfolios. The candidate should be registered to practice with the USPTO; attorney candidates should also be an active member and in good standing of their home office bar or eligible to waive into the appropriate bar. The position may be located in any of our US offices (Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Antonio, San Francisco, St. Louis, or Washington, DC). Must indicate offices (s) of interest in application.

Employees are entitled to compensation commensurate with skill and experience.  The full time base annual salary for this position in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver and New York market is expected to range between $180,000 and $250,000 for Patent Agents.  This range represents the firm's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting for a position in New York City, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.  Salaries in other markets will vary depending on market data. Bonus opportunities are non-guaranteed and are dependent upon individual and firm performance.