Deputy Manager - IPM

Position Overview:

We are seeking a dynamic associate to join our IPM (Intellectual Property Management) team of API manufacturing. Focusing on identifying potential blocking Ips for products and processes. The ideal candidate will prepare non-infringement opinions, facilities development, drive the filing and prosecution of patent application, aiming to alert the organization to potential IP threats and enable early products launches in regulated and key emerging markets.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for identifying potential blocking IP on API development process. This includes preparing and maintaining database of all IPs that might block the launch of product in regulated and emerging markets.

• Responsible for interacting closely with the R&D (Research and Development) team in developing an alternate APIs, to work around the blocking IPs.

• Responsible for preparation of non-infringement and infringement opinion by comparing and analyzing in-house process with that of the patents and preparing detailed non-infringement or infringement analysis reports.

• Responsible for identifying potential inventions of in-house formulations, performing patentability search, and drafting and filing a provisional patent application (first in India, and regional filings in rest of the world, specifically in US, EU, Brazil, Russia and China).

• Your role includes prosecuting the patent application by responding to the objections raised by various patent offices.

• You will be responsible for designing and implementing search strategy to identify the patents and applications relevant to a product.

• Daily update an Orange Book for drug approvals as well as for newly added patents.
• Your responsibilities include developing invalidation grounds if required and providing inputs and supporting documents and valid prior-art to the invalidation team based on the non-infringement/infringement analysis of all patent.

• You will be responsible for performing a detailed analysis and presentation of IP case laws to a person on the team on a monthly basis.

• You will contribute an internal group learning (monthly) for shared learning of technology, patent drafting and prosecution.

• You will contribute to the IP competitive intelligence by actively updating and sharing the IP news to the team.

• You will be responsible for providing preliminary IP view from Newport based search for portfolio inputs.

Technical Skills
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the API industry, including its processes, technologies, and market dynamics.

• In-depth understanding of intellectual property (IP) laws in key markets worldwide, encompassing patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

• Proficiency in interpreting IP laws, especially as they pertain to decisions delivered by patent litigations.