US Patent Attorney — Prosecution & Litigation
Quick facts
- Pay
- $110–125 / hour
- Type
- Contract
- Location
- Remote
- Background
- JD / attorney
- Platform
- Mercor — 323 open jobs
- Typical pay at Mercor
- $45–200/hour · median $85 (205 jobs on our site)
- Payout
- Stripe, Wise (weekly)
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay to get AI training work
Pay: $110 – $125/hour
Commitment: Hourly, ~20 h/week
Open to: USA
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
Mercor is an AI-driven hiring marketplace that places professionals on contracts with leading AI labs. You apply once, complete a short AI interview, and are then matched to open projects.