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US Patent Attorney — Prosecution & Litigation

Mercor logoMercor$110–$125/hrRemote in United StatesContractPosted today
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About the role

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

Where you can work

This role is 100% remote, for applicants located in United States.

From Mercor's job posting, checked 1 Nov 2026.

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