DM / Manager - IPR

Apothecon; Vadodara; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Apothecon seeks an IP Rights Manager to drive intellectual property strategies for formulations and APIs in global markets. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage DMF and ANDA filings, conduct patent landscape research, and assess vendor routes against IP constraints.

The role involves monitoring patent literature, providing risk assessments, and supporting litigation activities as needed, with close coordination to clients and business development teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in IP rights management for formulations or APIs.
• Master's degree in Pharmacy or related field.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop IP strategies and plans.
• Have filing exposure of DMF & ANDA
• Collates information from patent/non-patent literature for designated formulation for the specified markets
• Prepares landscape reports for formulation and evaluates vendors' synthesis routes against patents for applicable markets
• Coordinate with formulation vendors to resolve IP related queries
• Provide risk assessment to the Manager for required action, and authorize FRD team for vendor use
• Periodically monitors patents, updates reports and apprises Manager
• Support in litigation matters including invalidity searches and discovery
• Searches and reviews relevant case laws and presents summaries to the team
• Keeps updated with current IPR laws and regulations of various countries
• Coordinate with client/BD to resolve IP related queries
• Ensure compliance with company policies and values

Skills

IPR management

DMF filing

ANDA filing

Patent landscape

Literature review

Vendor coordination

IP risk assessment

Regulatory knowledge

Cross-functional

Litigation support

Case law review

Global IP laws

Client coordination

Education

Master's in Pharmacy

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop intellectual property strategies and plans.
• Have filing exposure of DMF & ANDA
• Collates information from patent/non-patent literature for designated formulation for the specified markets
• Prepares landscape reports for formulation and evaluates the formulation vendors route of synthesis against the patents/applications for applicable markets
• Coordination with formulation vendors to resolve IP related queries
• Provides the risk assessment to the Manager for required action. Gives go-ahead to FRD team for use of certain formulation vendor
• Periodically monitors patents, updates report and apprises Manager for required action
• Providing support in litigation matters including conducting invalidity searches, support in discovery and review of related documents
• Searches and reviews relevant case laws and provides summary / presentation to the team
• Keeps updated with the current IPR laws and Regulations of the various countries
• Coordination with client/BD to resolve formulation IP related queries
• Ensures compliance to Company policies and values

Desired Candidate Profile

• Experience in Intellectual Property Rights management for formulations or in API
• Master's degree in Pharmaceuticas or related field