Urgent Openings For Intellectual Property Management

Role & responsibilities

Job Description IPM (Formulation)

Company: MSN Laboratories
Department: IPM Formulation
Location: Pashamylaram, Hyderabad, Telangana
Designation: Executive / Senior Executive / Assistant Manager / Deputy Manager
Experience: 2-10 Years

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Formulation / API / Biotechnology | Executive to Deputy Manager

Job Description Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Function: Intellectual Property Rights – Formulation / API / Biotechnology
Designation: Executive / Senior Executive / Assistant Manager / Deputy Manager
Experience: 2–10 Years
Industry: Pharmaceutical / API / Biotechnology
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Purpose

To support and manage intellectual property activities across Formulation, API, and Biotechnology, including patent searching, patentability assessment, prior-art analysis, IP landscaping, freedom-to-operate (FTO) assessment, patent drafting support, prosecution coordination, and IP portfolio management.

Key Responsibilities

1. Patent Searching & Prior-Art Analysis

• Conduct comprehensive patent and non-patent literature searches for pharmaceutical and biotechnology inventions.
• Perform prior-art searches using databases such as Google Patents, Espacenet, WIPO Patentscope, USPTO, and other relevant patent databases.
• Analyze patent specifications, claims, prosecution history, and legal status.
• Identify relevant prior art for formulation, API process, analytical methods, drug delivery systems, biologics, and biotechnology inventions.
• Prepare prior-art search reports and technical summaries.

2. Patentability Assessment

• Evaluate inventions for novelty, inventive step/non-obviousness, industrial applicability, and patent eligibility in coordination with technical and legal teams.
• Review invention disclosures received from Formulation R&D, API R&D, Process R&D, Analytical R&D, and Biotechnology teams.
• Identify potentially patentable features in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
• Support preparation of invention disclosure forms and invention assessment reports.
• Coordinate with inventors and scientists to understand technical aspects of inventions.

3. Formulation IP

• Conduct patent analysis related to:
  
• Novel formulations
• Drug delivery systems
• Solid oral dosage forms
• Controlled/modified-release formulations
• Combination products
• Pharmaceutical compositions
• Polymorphs, salts, solvates and solid-state forms
• Process and manufacturing improvements
• Stability and formulation technologies
• Analyze formulation patent claims and assess potential IP risks during product development.

4. API / Process IP

• Perform patent searches and analysis relating to:
  
• API synthesis routes
• Novel intermediates
• Process improvements
• Polymorphs and crystalline forms
• Salts and solvates
• Chiral resolution
• Catalytic processes
• Impurity-control strategies
• Alternative manufacturing processes
• Support process R&D teams in identifying potentially patentable process innovations.
• Conduct FTO-oriented analysis for proposed API manufacturing routes.

5. Biotechnology IP

• Support IP activities related to:
  
• Biologics
• Biosimilars
• Recombinant proteins
• Monoclonal antibodies
• Cell and gene therapy technologies
• Microbial/biotechnological processes
• Fermentation technologies
• Cell lines and expression systems
• Biological assays and analytical technologies
• Analyze patent claims covering biological molecules, sequences, processes, formulations, and manufacturing technologies.

6. Freedom-to-Operate (FTO)

• Conduct preliminary FTO searches and landscape analysis for new products, formulations, API processes, and biotechnology projects.
• Identify potentially relevant third-party patents and patent families.
• Analyze claim scope and relevance to proposed products/processes.
• Prepare FTO search reports and technical claim charts in coordination with patent counsel.
• Track patent expiry, legal status, and relevant prosecution developments.

7. Patent Drafting & Prosecution Support

• Prepare technical inputs for patent specifications and claims.
• Work with external patent attorneys/counsels for drafting and filing patent applications.
• Review patent drafts for technical accuracy and consistency with the underlying invention.
• Support responses to patent office examination reports, objections, and office actions.
• Coordinate with inventors and patent counsel during prosecution.
• Maintain records of filing dates, priority dates, applications, grants, and prosecution status.

8. IP Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

• Conduct technology and competitor patent landscaping.
• Identify emerging technologies, competitors, patent trends, and potential white spaces.
• Prepare patent landscape reports for Formulation, API, and Biotechnology projects.
• Monitor competitor patent filings and relevant changes in patent portfolios.
• Provide IP intelligence to R&D, Business Development, Regulatory, and management teams.

9. IP Portfolio Management

• Maintain and update patent databases and IP trackers.
• Monitor patent filing, prosecution, grant, renewal, and expiry timelines.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external counsel for portfolio management.
• Maintain invention disclosures, patent applications, search reports, FTO reports, and related IP documentation.
• Support periodic review of the organization's IP portfolio.