Assisstant Manager IPR

Principal Job Accountabilities:

• Protection of IP Assets:

• Ensure protection and defense of intellectual property, including know-how.
• Harvest and evaluate invention disclosures, initiate novelty searches, and support data analysis.
• Ensure registration, enforcement, maintenance, and defense of trademarks.
• Draft patent applications and oversee prosecution.
• Defend intellectual property rights against third-party attacks.
• Assist in the review of patents and trademarks.
• Identify IP infringements and enforce patents and trademarks.

• Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

  Nil reported infringement.

• IP Risk Management:

• Conduct patent landscaping and freedom-to-operate evaluations related to company product portfolios.
• Perform patentability searches, literature searches, and IP analysis.
• Ensure proper IP risk management to facilitate product launches.
• Conduct patentability assessments, patent drafting, filing, and PCT filing.
• Define and implement countermeasures against competitors IP and intelligence.

• KPI:

  Nil incidence of filing violations and rejections.

• Scientific Information Management, Patent Filing, and IP Awareness:

• Provide support for all search requests related to patent information.
• Draft, file, and prosecute patents in different jurisdictions worldwide.
• Offer IP counseling to R&D teams, conduct prior art searches, and perform infringement and patentability analysis.
• Use databases to retrieve external information relevant to the company.
• Keep all stakeholders updated on major IP legal developments.
• Perform IP awareness training for R&D and technology teams.

• KPI:

  Quality of search and protection of IP assets.

• Other IP Management Activities:

• Draft IP agreements.
• Assist in the review of patents and trademarks.
• Identify IP infringements and enforce patents and trademarks.

Skills and Academic Qualifications:

• Educational Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, or Polymer Technology.
• Preferred: PG Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights.
• Optional: Patent Agent, Trademark Agent, or Degree in Law.

• Functional Skills Required:

• Intellectually rigorous with the ability to stay updated with the latest developments in the IP domain.
• Excellent drafting and communication skills.
• Thorough understanding of patents and trademarks in different countries.
• Hands-on experience in patent prosecution and trademark filing.

• Technical Skills Required:

• Patent searching (infringement searches, FTO searches, patentability, prior art searches).
• Patent drafting.
• Patent prosecution (drafting responses to FER, attending hearings until grant).
• Trademark filing and prosecution.