Patent Agent needed for Chicago office

1-8 yrs required

Full-time

No

Chicago office of a BCG Attorney Search Top Ranked Law Firm seeks a patent agent with 2+ years of experience in the technological fields of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or physics to join a team of attorneys working predominantly for high-volume clients. The candidate should have experience in the following areas: Conducting inventor interviews; drafting patent applications; Drafting responses to office actions and appeal-related papers; conducting examiner interviews; interfacing with in-house counsel; additional prosecution procedures (., after final practice, pre-appeal brief review). Experience in these additional areas is particularly beneficial: Preparing patentability and freedom-to-operate opinions; Working with foreign law firms for the prosecution of foreign applications; Post-grant proceedings (., inter partes review, reexamination, reissue). Should be admitted to practice before the USPTO. Should have excellent academics.

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