Legal skill
IP & Patent Prosecution jobs
Securing patents and trademarks: drafting, filing, and arguing with the examiner. Technical, and usually requires a science background. Below: the 2 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What IP & Patent Prosecution unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Lawyer | 860 | salary |
| Patent Agent | 14 | salary |
Quick answers
What is IP & Patent Prosecution?
Securing patents and trademarks: drafting, filing, and arguing with the examiner. Technical, and usually requires a science background. On our board IP & Patent Prosecution counts as a legal skill, and we pull it straight from the text of live postings every night, so the numbers on this page are what employers are asking for right now. Every skill, defined in plain language: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for IP & Patent Prosecution?
Quite a few. Right now 874 open roles on our board sit in the 2 occupations where IP & Patent Prosecution shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Lawyer, with 860 open roles today.
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.