[Hiring] IP Patent Paralegal @Launch Legends

Role Description

We’re offering a unique opportunity to join Launch Legends (and Autheo) as a part-time Equity Cofounder. This role reports to the Managing Directors and works day to day with the IP Patent Attorney and the IP Program Manager.

Autheo is recruiting an IP Patent Paralegal to support patent prosecution and filings for the Layer-0 Operating System and the integrated Layer-1:

• Protocol and cryptography work
• DevHub
• TheoID and its post-quantum roadmap (NIST ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA)
• Autheo Marketplace
• THEO AI
• DePIN
• Related software

You will own docketing, formalities, and filing logistics, ensuring every filing is accurate, complete, and on time. This is a high-ownership support seat, not a general office-admin role.

Part-time does not mean advisory. Equity cofounder means you own the docket and the filing workflow, and you work next to the attorney, the IP Program Manager, and inventors rather than waiting on instructions for every step.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a patent paralegal (or equivalent patent-support role) supporting USPTO filings and prosecution.
• Strong working knowledge of USPTO procedures, provisional and non-provisional filing formalities, and docketing.
• Experience preparing filing packages and supporting documentation, and managing a docket with hard statutory deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail, document organization, and written communication.
• Comfortable working with inventors, a patent attorney, and an IP Program Manager in a distributed cofounder team.
• Technical aptitude sufficient to organize and accurately record software, cryptography, or distributed-systems subject matter with inventor and attorney guidance.

Requirements

• Experience with PCT filings, foreign prosecution coordination, and multi-jurisdiction formalities.
• Familiarity with patent-management or docketing software and invention-disclosure systems.
• Support work on software, cryptography, blockchain, cloud, or other advanced-technology patents, including post-quantum cryptography (NIST ML-KEM, ML-DSA, or SLH-DSA) where relevant.
• A technical degree or coursework in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• USPTO registration as a patent agent (not required).
• Prior work in a startup, deep-tech, or high-velocity R&D environment.

First 90 Days

• A complete, current docket of Autheo’s patent matters: every active deadline (provisional, conversion, office action, PCT, national phase, and fees), with owners and status.
• Standardized intake, filing-checklist, and document-workflow templates in use with the attorney and the IP Program Manager.
• Filing and formalities support for at least one provisional or non-provisional application, or a complete office-action package, prepared with the attorney.
• A simple portfolio-status report the attorney and Managing Directors can review on a regular cadence.

Benefits

• This is a part-time equity/token-based cofounder opportunity.
• You will receive equity in Launch Legends, Autheo, and the WFO Creator Network.
• Token allocations in the Autheo blockchain.
• Remote work with a direct line to the engineering leads and the Managing Directors.