Intellectual Property Specialist

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ability to handle prior art/patentability / invalidation and FTO searches.

Making of Landscape preparation and patent monitoring of drug products for the proposed Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API).

-Conducting Infringement/FTO Analysis for API for countries of interest and provide clearances to CRD.

Freedom to operate analysis-Drug product-based, Technology-based and packing based.

Orange book patent analysis-critical non-infringement strategy.

Collaboration with R&D scientists, analysts regarding patent issues.

Taking of attorney opinions for proposed invalidity or non-infringement study wrt the proposed route of synthesis or products etc.

Good exposure to make drafting of patent specification and responses to examination reports for India and US and Europe.

Very good hand in filing, studying and analyzing pre-grant oppositions, post-grant oppositions, revocations against granted patents;

Provide relevant inputs to CRD in development of patent non-infringing API process/polymorphs etc.

Identify relevant patents/published patent applications which requires invalidation and preparing suitable stands based on invalidity grounds.

Prepare responses for Customer queries relating to API for cross-functional departments such as RAD/Marketing/BD/ Portfolio design team, etc., and also for queries of external customers.

Efficiently handling multiple projects with tight deadlines, managing deliverables, resources and timelines.

Drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications in India, US and Europe.

Patent searching in individual patent office sites of different countries.

Giving patent certifications for regulatory submissions in different countries

Patent litigation support and monitoring.

Business development project opportunities evaluation.

Periodic review regarding maintenance of important patents / patent publications

Watching competitor patents/publications.

Well versed with generic drugs, ANDA filings, competitive intelligence, and website.

Effectively utilized a variety of patent and scientific databases and open sources.

Good exposure in handling different databases like Scifinder, WIPS, Orbit and Total patents.

Ability to manage a range of projects from proposal stage to successful project completion.

Implement and manage change when necessary to meet project outputs.

Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, supporting materials and deliverables.

Ability to and experience of providing input to organizational business and budget planning.

Strong multi-tasking skills with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Team management experience with the ability to manage and motivate project teams.

Should mentor and train junior searchers.

Should form and develop team of skilled searchers.

Maintain and capable of building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals.

Good planning, organizational, technical / analytical and decision making skills.

Capability to provide timely, accurate and relevant project and portfolio reporting as agreed.

Ensure continuous learning and development of self; keep updated self on advancements/amendments in the IP/Legal field for various countries of interest.

Moving annual total calculation of sales and consumption of the active pharmaceutical ingredients within the consecutive years with the use of IMS database.

Segregation of the individual sales and consumption of API quantities in individual countries and regions.