Intellectual Property Attorney Life Sciences

F. D. R. Consulting

📍Washington, DC
Posted May 19, 2026
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Job Overview

Position

Intellectual Property Attorney Life Sciences

Company

F. D. R. Consulting

Location

Washington, DC

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4415978137

Job Description

FDR Consulting Group has over 20 years of experience in providing job placements for individual attorneys, practice groups, and facilitating mergers for law firms and corporations.

Responsibilities

IP Life Sciences Associate Attorney with at least 3 years of firm experience in patent preparation and prosecution, client counseling, portfolio management, Freedom-to-operate, patentability, invalidity analysis, due diligence and post grant proceeding. Associate attorneys should have a advanced degree (Ph.D. Preferred) in biology or related.

Qualifications

  • JD from an accredited law school.

  • Admission to practice before the USPTO.

  • A Life Sciences (Biology) PhD is strongly preferred.

  • 3-6 years of experience in both patent prosecution and litigation.

  • Experience with patents in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, gene therapy, medical device and digital health industries.

  • Familiarity with patent portfolio management, landscape analyses, and patentability.

  • Must be licensed to practice law and in good standing in one of (DC, MA, CA, NY).

  • Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.Walk me through your approach to conducting a Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) analysis for a new gene therapy product, and how you counsel the client on the findings.
  • 2.How do you leverage your advanced biology background when drafting patent applications for complex biotechnology or pharmaceutical inventions to overcome Section 112 rejections?
  • 3.Describe your experience with post-grant proceedings, such as Inter Partes Review (IPR). How do you determine whether to pursue this route versus district court litigation?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you managed a complex patent portfolio for a life sciences client. How did you align the IP strategy with their business objectives?
  • 2.Give me an example of a time you had to explain a highly technical patentability or invalidity analysis to non-technical business stakeholders.
  • 3.Describe a situation where you had to balance patent prosecution deadlines with urgent litigation or due diligence demands.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.A pharmaceutical client is about to launch a new digital health app paired with a biologic drug, and they just received a restrictive Office Action citing a competitor's prior art. How do you advise them?
  • 2.During a due diligence review for a merger, you discover that the target biotech company's crown-jewel gene therapy patent has a potentially fatal written description flaw that the acquiring client is unaware of. How do you handle this?

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Patent ProsecutionLife SciencesFreedom-to-OperateFTOUSPTOPatentabilityDue DiligencePost-Grant ProceedingsIPRPortfolio ManagementBiotechnologyGene Therapy

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