Attorney Resume Guide
Section 4: Practice Areas J-P
Information Technology through Patent Agents
Practice Areas Covered in This Section
Information Technology
✅ Select if You Are:
- Advising clients on software agreements, IT infrastructure contracts, SaaS, cloud, or related issues
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Having general tech experience without specific IT contractual or compliance elements
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
SaaS agreement, cloud contract, IT services agreement, information security legal, outsourcing counsel, software licensing
Insurance
✅ Select if You Are:
- Involved in advising or litigating on behalf of insurers or policyholders in a non-specific context
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Having only product liability or PI defense with no insurance reference
- Having general commercial litigation without mention of insurance policies
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
policy coverage, insurance law, claim denial, insurer, insured, insurance compliance
Insurance Coverage
✅ Select if You Are:
- Analyzing insurance policies to determine coverage obligations
- Representing insurers or policyholders in coverage disputes
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only handling insurance defense without coverage analysis
- Having no experience with policy interpretation
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
coverage analysis, policy interpretation, duty to defend, duty to indemnify, coverage dispute, bad faith, reservation of rights, declaratory judgment
Insurance Defense - General
✅ Select if You Are:
- Defending insureds in lawsuits on behalf of insurance carriers
- Handling various types of liability defense matters
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only handling plaintiff-side litigation
- Having no insurance carrier involvement
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
insurance defense, liability defense, carrier counsel, insured defense, general liability, professional liability, coverage counsel
Insurance Plaintiffs - General
✅ Select if You Are:
- Representing plaintiffs in claims against insurance companies
- Pursuing bad faith or coverage denial claims
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only working on insurance defense matters
- Having no plaintiff-side insurance experience
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
insurance bad faith, coverage denial, first-party claims, third-party claims, plaintiff insurance litigation, insurance dispute
Insurance - Regulatory & Compliance
✅ Select if You Are:
- Advising insurance companies on regulatory compliance
- Handling matters before state insurance commissioners
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only handling insurance litigation without regulatory aspects
- Having no insurance industry compliance experience
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
insurance regulation, state insurance commission, NAIC compliance, insurance code, solvency regulation, market conduct
Intellectual Property – General
✅ Select if You Are:
- Working across multiple IP areas including patents, trademarks, copyrights, or trade secrets
- Providing general intellectual property counsel
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Focusing exclusively on one specific IP area
- Having no intellectual property experience
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
intellectual property, patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, IP portfolio management, IP strategy, technology transfer
Intellectual Property – Litigation
✅ Select if You Are:
- Litigating patent, trademark, copyright, or trade secret disputes
- Handling IP enforcement or defense matters
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only handling IP prosecution or transactional work
- Having no litigation experience in IP matters
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
patent litigation, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, trade secret litigation, IP enforcement, Markman hearing, claim construction, PTAB
Intellectual Property – Litigation – Hard Sciences
✅ Select if You Are:
- Litigating IP disputes involving engineering, computer science, physics, or chemistry
- Having technical background in hard sciences
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only working in life sciences or biotech IP
- Having no technical background in hard sciences
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, software patents, hardware patents, semiconductor litigation
Intellectual Property - Patent - Life Sciences
✅ Select if You Are:
- Working on patent matters involving pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or medical devices
- Having life sciences technical background
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only working in hard sciences or engineering
- Having no life sciences background
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
pharmaceutical patents, biotech patents, medical device patents, FDA regulatory, Hatch-Waxman, biosimilars, ANDA litigation
Intellectual Property - Patent Licensing
✅ Select if You Are:
- Negotiating patent license agreements
- Handling technology transfer transactions
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only handling patent prosecution or litigation
- Having no licensing transaction experience
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
patent licensing, technology transfer, royalty agreements, cross-licensing, patent pools, standard essential patents, FRAND licensing
Intellectual Property - Trademark/Copyright
✅ Select if You Are:
- Working on trademark registration, enforcement, or copyright matters
- Handling brand protection issues
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only working on patent matters
- Having no trademark or copyright experience
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
trademark registration, trademark prosecution, copyright registration, brand protection, domain name disputes, UDRP, trademark opposition
Intellectual Property - Trademark/Copyright - Litigation
✅ Select if You Are:
- Litigating trademark or copyright infringement cases
- Handling brand enforcement disputes
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only handling trademark/copyright prosecution
- Having no litigation experience
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
trademark infringement litigation, copyright infringement litigation, unfair competition, false advertising, Lanham Act, DMCA takedown
Intellectual Property - Trademark/Copyright - Transaction
✅ Select if You Are:
- Negotiating trademark or copyright licenses
- Handling IP transactions and assignments
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Only handling prosecution or litigation
- Having no transaction experience
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
trademark licensing, copyright licensing, IP assignment, brand licensing, merchandise licensing, content licensing agreements
Licensing
✅ Select if You Are:
- Handling licensing deals including software, brand, patent, or media licenses
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Having licensing that is incidental and not a focus of the role
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
licensing agreement, royalty, patent license, brand licensing, royalty structure, technology licensing
Municipal Law
✅ Select if You Are:
- Advising or litigating on behalf of municipal governments or public agencies
- Drafting ordinances, public contracts, or advising city councils or county boards
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Working for state or federal government only
- Having no experience with city, county, or local agency matters
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
municipal law, city attorney, county counsel, public agency representation, local ordinances, municipal litigation, zoning board, city council legal advisor
Native American Law
✅ Select if You Are:
- Working with tribal governments, sovereignty, Indian gaming, or indigenous land rights
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Having general public law experience without tribal or indigenous law relevance
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
tribal law, BIA, Indian gaming, tribal sovereignty, reservation law
Nonprofit / Charities Law
✅ Select if You Are:
- Counseling nonprofit organizations on tax exemption, formation, governance, and compliance
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Focusing on for-profit entities or unrelated corporate work
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
501(c)(3), nonprofit formation, IRS Form 990, charitable trust, public charity
Patent Agent - General
✅ Select if You Are:
- A registered patent agent working on patent prosecution matters
- Handling patent applications and USPTO proceedings
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Not registered with the USPTO
- Only handling patent litigation without prosecution experience
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
patent agent, USPTO registration, patent prosecution, patent application, office action, patent examination, claim drafting
Patent Agents/Technical Specialists
✅ Select if You Are:
- A patent agent or technical specialist with expertise in specific technology areas
- Having advanced technical degree and USPTO registration
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Having no technical background
- Not working in patent prosecution
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
patent agent, technical specialist, USPTO registration, patent prosecution, technical background, prior art search
Patent Agents/Technical Specialists - Hard Sciences
✅ Select if You Are:
- A patent agent with technical background in engineering, computer science, physics, or chemistry
- Working on patent applications in hard sciences technologies
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Having life sciences background only
- Having no hard sciences technical degree
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, physics, chemistry, software patents, hardware patents
Patent Agents/Technical Specialists - Hard Sciences General
✅ Select if You Are:
- A patent agent working broadly across multiple hard sciences disciplines
- Having general hard sciences technical background
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Specializing in only one specific hard sciences area
- Having life sciences background
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
hard sciences, engineering, patent prosecution, technical specialist, USPTO registration, multidisciplinary technology
Patent Agents/Technical Specialists - Life Sciences
✅ Select if You Are:
- A patent agent with technical background in biology, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, or biotechnology
- Working on patent applications in life sciences technologies
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Having hard sciences background only
- Having no life sciences technical degree
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
biochemistry, bioengineering, biology, biomechanics, biophysics, biotechnology, cellular technology, pharmaceutical patents, medical device patents
Patent Agents/Technical Specialists - Life Sciences General
✅ Select if You Are:
- A patent agent working broadly across multiple life sciences disciplines
- Having general life sciences technical background
❌ Avoid if You Are:
- Specializing in only one specific life sciences area
- Having hard sciences background only
🔍 Include These Keywords in Your Resume:
life sciences, biotechnology, patent prosecution, technical specialist, USPTO registration, multidisciplinary biology
