Ip Counsel

**Role description**:
1) Intellectual Property Portfolio Development:

- Strategic curation and expansion of IP assets to align with business objectives and market opportunities.

2) Supporting R&D in ideation, creation, and development:

- Guiding innovation processes from concept to commercialization while safeguarding IP rights.

1) Interviewing inventors, conducting Search and Patent drafting

2) Patent Audit:

- Systematic review of existing patents to assess validity, compliance, and alignment with organizational strategy.

3) Patent Searches (State of the Art, FTO, Invalidity, etc.)
- Executing targeted searches to inform R&D direction, mitigate infringement risks, or challenge/existing patents.

4) Responding to FERs and Office Actions of other jurisdictions,
- Addressing patent examiners' queries with technical-legal arguments to secure grant approvals.

5) Attending Hearing on Patent matters
- Advocating for IP rights in legal or administrative proceedings to resolve disputes or oppositions.

6) Managing IP management tool AQX Corporate
- Overseeing digital IP workflows, docketing, and analytics for streamlined portfolio management.

7) Negotiating Research Contracts & NDAs with various Research partners:

- Structuring agreements with partners to define IP ownership, licensing, and confidentiality terms.

8) IP awareness sessions:

- Educating teams on IP best practices to foster innovation and ensure timely, secure filings.

**Skills**:

- Having sound knowledge of Indian Patent Act 1970, PCT
- IP searching/FTO/Invalidity
- Expertise to use IP Databases
- Patent Drafting
- Patent Prosecution
- National Patent Filing/PCT Filing
- Due Diligence of Patent portfolios and identifying emerging IP trends
- Skills on Patent portfolio management
- Patent landscaping
- IP audits
- Technical competence to perform intellectual property and technical due diligence.
- Technical competence to execute patent landscaping, technology scouting, and data mining (programming would be an advantage) projects
- Impeccable written and verbal communications to make knowledge-driven recommendations to technical and business leadership.
- Collaborative aptitude to engage with people from diverse skill set to retrieve the insights
- Exposure to IP, Business, and technical databases

Willingness to travel to different conferences and events and gathering information

**Other details**:
B. Tech./M. tech/MSc./PhD/Research Fellows
- Preferably in Metallurgy, Physics, Mechanical Engineering

Registered Patent Agents/LLB/LLM in IP law preferred.