Team Lead – Patent Prosecution

Biocon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Biocon in Bengaluru is seeking a patent professional to manage the drafting, filing, prosecution and maintenance of its patent portfolio. You will regularly engage with the R&D team to align IP strategies with research goals and coordinate with external attorneys across jurisdictions.

Responsibilities include conducting patentability searches, performing analyses, drafting patent applications, and responding to office actions.

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.

Job description

• 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