Assistant Manager Intellectual Property (API)

Job Title: Asst. Manager – IPM (API)

Location: Mahape, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra

Department: Intellectual Property Management (IPM)

Experience Required: 8-10 Years

Position Summary: We are seeking a candidate with 8 to 10 years of experience in handling IP for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API).

Job Responsibilities:

• IP Search & Analysis: Conduct literature searches (patent/non-patent) and prepare IP summary reports/landscapes.
• IP Evaluation & Clearance: Perform IP evaluation and clearance for APIs and Key Starting Materials (KSMs), analyse the associated route of synthesis (ROS), polymorphic forms, salt forms, and particle size.
• Vendor Coordination & Approval: Coordinate with API Vendors on IP-related queries and clear the API.
• Patent Validity Analysis: Evaluate and Prepare patent invalidity reports.
• Opposition Filing: Identify blocking patents / applications and file pre-grant oppositions, third party observations (TPO), post-grant oppositions and / or revocation.
• Due Diligence: Conduct IP due diligence (landscape reports, dossier review, monitoring relevant patents/applications) for in-license products.
• Cross-Functional Liaison: Coordinate with multiple stakeholders like R&D, Sourcing, project management, portfolio on API matters.
• IP Monitoring: Periodically monitor new patent publications and changes in patent status.
• Compliance & Legal Updates: Stay updated on current IP laws of different countries and legal developments.

Preferred Qualification

• Education: M.Sc. or PhD in Organic/Medicinal Chemistry.
• Post Graduate Diploma in IPR, or registration as an Indian Patent Agent will be preferred.

Desirable Knowledge & Skills (Functional/Technical)

• Chemistry Fundamentals: Thorough understanding of organic reactions, spectroscopy, stereochemistry, impurity profiling, and applied polymorph evaluation based on patent scenarios.
• Solid State Chemistry Interpretation: Good understanding of analytical data specifically XRPD, DSC, and TGA, and their correlation to patent claims covering specific polymorphs and PSD.
• Database Proficiency: Well-trained in using IP databases (Paid and free databases) such as SciFinder, Reaxys, Orbit, Espacenet, WIPO, EPO, USPTO, and various national patent office databases.
• Search Expertise: Excellent understanding and experience in conducting substance and reaction searches using Sci-Finder/Reaxys databases.
• Legal Expertise: Good knowledge of patent law of different countries including US, Europe, India, and Emerging Markets.