Team Lead – Patent Prosecution

Job description

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