Team Lead Patent Prosecution

Team Lead – Patent Prosecution

Roles & Responsibilities

• To handle Patent Drafting, Filing, Prosecution and Maintenance.
• Maintaining patent portfolio and regular interaction with R&D team for IPR strategies.
• Patentability Searches - Conducting keyword and amino acid/nucleotide sequence based patent and non-patent literature searches in various databases.
• Patentability analysis of proposed inventions, IP opinion and suggestions to be shared with R&D team
• Interaction with external attorneys for Patent Drafting, Filing, Prosecution and Maintenance in different jurisdictions.
• Responding to stakeholders on Patent Filing, Prosecution, and IP related queries.
• To prepare IP opinion and report for patentability and freedom-to-operate (FTO) assessments.
• Drafting of patent applications and filing the same in various jurisdictions-USPTO, EPO, WIPO, IPO, JPO etc.
• Analysis of patent examination report or office actions and preparing response of the same.
• Handling pre-grant/post-grant patent opposition and patent litigation (defence of Novel patents) in various jurisdictions
• Preparing patent prosecution summaries.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Qualification : MTech/Ph.D (Biotechnology) + Patent Agent, LL.B (Desirable)

Experience : 12-15 years