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Senior Level Patent Attorney
Patent and Trademark Office · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
The United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) mission is to promote innovation and competition by providing quality examination and issuance of patent and trademark applications, guiding domestic and international intellectual property policy, and delivering intellectual property information and education worldwide. Through the issuance of patents, the USPTO encourages technological advancement by providing incentives to invent, invest in, and disclose new technology worldwide.
What You'll Do
- →The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia.
- →Presence at the Alexandria, VA campus is required for this role, as it includes on site functions that must be performed in person.
- →Position may be eligible for situational telework in accordance with agency policy/business unit discretion.
- →The agency currently allows for 52 hours of telework per calendar year.
- →The Senior Level Patent Attorney provides expert legal advice to senior USPTO, Department of Commerce, and Administration officials on domestic and international intellectual property policy with emphasis on complex patent issues on the international level.
- →The incumbent serves as the staff expert on intricate issues associated with such difficult areas as computer-related technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical data protection, legal and regulatory issues, and patent and industrial design filing and protection issues on the international level.
- →The Senior Level Patent Attorney also performs the following duties: Acts as the senior expert on legal and technical developments in the most challenging technological areas of the USPTO, focusing upon the often unique, increasingly multifaceted international patent law arena.
- →Keeps abreast of the latest developments and the emerging legal and technical issues related to patents in a broad range of technologies.
- →Proposes domestic legislation on substantive patent law and administrative matters that is consistent with Administration goals.
- →Drafts and reviews, when tasked, complex patent legislative proposals involving the intellectual property law portions of major Administration proposals.
- →Clears legislative proposals and views through the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of State, the Department of Justice, et al.
- →Advocates enactment before the private sector, Members of Congress and their staff, particularly when the issues involved are legally or technologically difficult, highly sensitive in nature, and have international ramifications.
- →Participates in interagency groups and makes presentations to and secures comments from private sector groups.
- →Participates in, as sole representative of the United States or as the senior expert on a team, bilateral and multilateral negotiations to obtain the Administration's objectives in the foreign policy and trade arenas where particularly sophisticated intellectual property law issues are involved.
Requirements
- ✓Educational requirement is a law degree and membership in good standing of the bar of a state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico.
- ✓A technical degree or equivalent is also required for this position.
- ✓A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.
- ✓FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements.
- ✓You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program.
- ✓It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
Personality Fit
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