US Patent Attorney — Prosecution & Litigation
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About the Role Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality legal reasoning data. We're hiring US patent attorneys with prosecution and/or litigation experience for a focused evaluation project. You'll review model-generated work product on patent matters, judge its quality, and mark legal, technical, factual and citation errors directly in the materials. What You'll Do - Review patent-related outputs (prosecution and/or litigation work product) 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 You're a Good Fit If You - Are admitted to practice in at least one US state (active bar membership) - Have 3+ years of US patent practice — patent prosecution (drafting/prosecuting applications before the USPTO) and/or patent litigation (infringement, validity, claim construction) - For prosecution work: are registered to practice before the USPTO (patent bar, registration number) - 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 Bonus Qualifications - 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 Role Highlights - Time commitment: approximately 12–15 hours total, within a defined review window - Immediately required - You must complete all required reviews, as the project design depends on every attorney finishing the full set
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