Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, one of the world's leading global law firms with offices in strategic hubs of commerce, law, and government across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, is seeking to hire a Patent Agent to join their award-winning Intellectual Property Practice Group and be responsible for preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO").

This position will reside in our Washington, DC office and will be supervised by an intellectual property partner, but will have daily contact with, and will receive guidance from, all the partners in the practice group for whom this individual provides support. The Patent Agent will work to protect inventions in a manner that is consistent with his/her technical merit, while assuming significant client responsibilities and providing high quality legal services to domestic and foreign clients.

Responsibilities:

• Perform patent searching and investigate inventorship issues

• Manage the intake of invention disclosures and review disclosures for patentability, novelty, and non-obviousness

• Evaluate qualification and applicability of prior art

• Study and analyze scientific or technical documents, including previously published patent documents, to assess patentability, novelty and inventiveness

• Draft new patent applications; act as a second reviewer for filings; manage the processing of e-File filings

• Convert prior provisional applications into utility applications, foreign filed applications into U.S. applications and U.S. applications into foreign applications

• Prepare replies to U.S. and foreign office actions

• Assist attorneys with prosecution; identify alternative prosecution scenarios and claim strategies to develop patent portfolios

• Conduct interviews with USPTO examiners; prepare appeals to PTAB and clearance analyses

• Prepare reexamination petitions, reissue applications, and IPR and CBM petitions

• Prepare substantive client correspondence

• Meet with clients to discuss inventions and ascertain whether the inventions are likely to lead to commercially meaningful patent claims

• Provide patent prosecution training

Education & experience:

• Bachelor's degree (or graduate degree) preferably in electrical engineering, but a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related area will be considered

• Minimum 2 years of experience prosecuting or examining patent applications in the electrical arts, preferably display and battery technology

• Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or eligible to sit for the USPTO patent agent exam

• Excellent writing and research abilities are a must, as well as proficiency in written and verbal communication, and strong organizational skills

Qualified candidates must apply online by visiting our website at www.morganlewis.com and selecting "Careers."

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