Urgent Openings For Intellectual Property Management

MSN Group; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

MSN Laboratories in Hyderabad, Telangana seeks an IPM Formulation/IPR professional to manage IP activities across formulation, API and biotechnology sectors. You will conduct patent searches, FTO analyses, and support drafting and prosecution with cross-functional teams.

The role requires 2–10 years of experience in pharmaceutical/IPR and involves collaboration with Formulation R&D, API R&D, Process R&D and Biotech groups for invention disclosures and IP landscape projects.

Qualifications

• Experience with patent searching for pharma/biotech inventions.
• Ability to assess novelty and inventive step across formulations, APIs, and biotechnology.
• Experience coordinating with Formulation R&D, API R&D, Process R&D, Analytical R&D and Biotech teams.
• Ability to prepare invention disclosures and coordinate with patent counsel.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive patent and non-patent literature searches for pharma/biotech inventions.
• Perform prior-art searches using Google Patents, Espacenet, WIPO Patentscope, USPTO.
• Analyze patent specs, prosecution history, and legal status to identify relevant prior art.
• Evaluate novelty, inventive step, industrial applicability for formulations, API processes and biotech.
• Analyze IP risks in formulation IP, API/IP process IP, and biotech IP areas.
• Support drafting of invention disclosures and technical reports; coordinate with inventors and counsel.
• Conduct FTO and landscape analysis; track patent expiry and prosecution developments.
• Support patent drafting and prosecution with technical inputs and filings coordination.
• Maintain IP portfolios and documentation, including search reports and claim charts.

Skills

Patent searching

Prior-art analysis

IP landscape

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Google Patents

Espacenet

WIPO Patentscope

USPTO

Job description

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.