US Patent Attorney or Patent Agent

Lightbringer; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightbringer provides remote patent services to growing tech companies across the United States. The team helps turn technology into business moats by drafting and prosecuting patent applications and office-action responses with AI support.

You will work closely with inventors, manage disclosures and claim strategies, and guide clients through filing and prosecution decisions. Lightbringer values strong client relationships and pragmatic judgment in a dynamic, AI-enabled environment.

Qualifications

• Registration to practice before the USPTO with 2 to 6 years of patent preparation and prosecution experience.
• Ability to handle drafting and prosecution matters competently within quality-control and review processes.
• Outstanding client relationships and ability to explain complex patent questions clearly.
• Strong technical judgment; applicants from any technical field welcome.
• Thoughtful approach to AI: willing to use it extensively, challenge it, and improve process.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with inventors; understand technology and business priorities; explain the patent process clearly.
• Develop invention disclosures and claim strategies with clients; reflect invention in protection and commercial use.
• Use AI workflows to prepare, review and refine patent applications and office-action responses; assess claim scope and prior art.
• Guide clients through review, filing and prosecution decisions; coordinate with patent specialists to keep matters moving.
• Provide specific feedback to product and engineering teams to improve the platform.

Skills

USPTO registration

Patent prosecution experience

Client relationships

Technical judgment

AI awareness

Job description

Lightbringer | Full-time | Remote across the US

You'll join the Lightbringer team to help growing technology companies turn their technology into business moats.

AI is already part of the day-to-day work here. Our workflows produce first drafts of patent applications and office-action responses. Your contribution is the technical understanding, professional judgment and relationship with the inventor that makes that work fit for purpose: finding what matters, shaping the protection, challenging the output and guiding the client through decisions.

You’ll also help improve how the work gets done. When a workflow misses technical detail, narrows a claim unnecessarily or needs a better way to incorporate inventor feedback, your insight can improve the process for future matters.

What you’ll do

• Build trusted relationships with inventors and innovators. Understand their technology and business priorities, ask the questions that uncover what matters, and explain the patent process clearly.
• Develop invention disclosures and claim strategies with clients, resolving gaps and making sure the proposed protection reflects the invention and its intended commercial use.
• Use Lightbringer’s AI workflows to prepare, critically review and refine patent applications and office-action responses. Assess claim scope, prior art, technical support and consistency across claims, descriptions and drawings.
• Guide clients through review, filing and prosecution decisions, working with patent specialists and other practitioners to keep matters moving.
• Give specific, practical feedback to the product and engineering team so that professional experience helps improve the platform.

What you’ll bring

• Registration to practice before the USPTO as a patent attorney or patent agent, with 2 to 6 years of patent preparation and prosecution experience
• The ability to handle drafting and prosecution matters competently and independently, within normal quality-control and review processes.
• Outstanding client relationships and the ability to make complex patent questions understandable to people who are developing the technology.
• Strong technical judgment. We welcome applicants from any technical field.
• A thoughtful approach to AI: willing to use it extensively, able to challenge it, and interested in improving an evolving way of working.

This is an opportunity to work closely with inventors while helping shape how patent services are delivered. Your judgment will matter both to the client in front of you and to the way the next matter is handled.