Role Description This is the kind of role patent professionals talk about for the rest of their careers. You won’t inherit a slow-moving legal department buried under layers of review. You’ll help build one of the most ambitious medical-device patent operations being assembled anywhere today. - Protect breakthrough inventions across hydrogen inhalation systems, biosensors, wearable health technologies, and future-facing wellness devices. - Operate with rare ownership: Your judgment, your signature, your prosecution strategy, your name on the filings. - Work alongside an AI-powered invention engine moving at extraordinary speed while still owning the human expertise that matters most. - Help reshape the future of how medical-device innovation moves from concept to protected intellectual property. - This is not a maintenance role; it is a chance to help set a new standard for modern patent prosecution. Your next 5 minutes could land you in our top 5% shortlist — click Apply to start your application (a short, simple step to put you in the running). Registered USPTO Patent Agent – Medical Devices Domain ROLE SNAPSHOT — - Location/Schedule: Remote, Full-Time - Purpose: Own end-to-end prosecution for advanced medical-device and health-technology inventions within a high-speed AI-powered patent operation. Qualifications - Active USPTO Patent Bar registration in good standing. - Minimum 4 years of patent prosecution experience post-registration. - Minimum 50 patent applications drafted, prosecuted, or substantively responded to in medical-device, consumer-electronics, or sensor-hardware domains. - Strong engineering background: BSME, BSEE, BSBME, or equivalent; MS preferred. - Demonstrated expertise with §112(f) means-plus-function claim drafting and structural-support strategies. - Ability to independently sign and prosecute filings without attorney supervision. - Comfort operating in AI-assisted patent drafting workflows. - Ability to work at high production speed while maintaining substantive quality. Requirements - Prior in-house medical-device IP experience. - Experience at a top-tier patent prosecution practice focused on medical devices. - Familiarity with FDA 510(k) and PMA regulatory pathways. - Experience with hydrogen inhalation devices, biosensors, wearable devices, photobiomodulation hardware, or EMF-protection technologies. - Hands-on experience with AI-driven drafting systems. Benefits - Opportunity to help build a next-generation AI-powered patent operation. - High ownership and direct impact on strategic IP development. - Exposure to cutting-edge health and wellness technologies. - Fast-moving, innovation-focused environment. - Small, highly specialized team structure with significant autonomy. - Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage. - Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness. - Employee Assistance Program (EAP). - Employer Paid Life and AD&D Insurance. - Optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance. - Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance. - Flexible Spending Accounts. - Health Spending Accounts. - Dayforce Wallet – get paid as you earn. - Employee Discount. - Retirement Planning (401k with matching contribution). - Pet Insurance. - Wellness Program Offerings. - Paid Time Off, accrued per pay period based on years of service, starting at 20 days annually. - 9 Paid Holidays per year, including 1 floating holiday. Company Description Mercola and its affiliates (“Mercola”) are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race (including hairstyle and texture), color, religion or belief (or lack thereof) (including religious grooming and dress practices), sex, nationality, national or ethnic origin, civil status, age, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, familial status, marital or registered civil partnership status, pregnancy or parental status, gender identity, gender reassignment, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. If you need accommodation, please send an email to hr@mercola.com to let us know the nature of your request.