Senior Specialist Intellectual Property Management

Senior Specialist, Intellectual Property

• Work with US Counsel in managing ANDA, 505(b)(2), BPCIA, and PM(NOC) patent litigations, including post-grant patent office proceedings by developing and implementing claims and defenses.  Assist in discovery, witness preparations, and competitive landscape analysis.  Identify strategies related to Paragraph IV certifications and Section viii carve-outs.  
• Work with US Counsel and DRL R&D in securing freedom-to-operate for Dr. Reddy’s products, including clearance of Orange Book and unlisted patents for the bulk API, route of synthesis, finished dosage form and polymorphs.
• Conduct prior art, patentability, landscape and freedom-to-operate searches.
• Examine patents, file histories, prior art, ongoing litigations, and citizen’s petitions for possible Paragraph IV and related strategies for ANDA and 505(b)(2) products.
• Develop and provide IP inputs as part of product selection.
• Provide IP prosecution strategy, including by collaborating with R&D on innovation and drafting patent applications.
• Conduct IP due diligence and provide IP support towards business development activities.

Educational qualification:

Minimum work Experience:

• Experience in Intellectual Property (IP) domain
• Experience developing strategies for and assisting in the management of ANDA litigations in the US
• Skilled in infringement/invalidity analysis, freedom to operate, filing and prosecution, Market launch analysis.
• Experience leading product Identification and selection in perspective of complex Injectable, inhalation, OSDs in different geographies.
• Sound knowledge of technologies used in various dosage forms.
• Due diligence experience for North America region.
• Experience with both small molecules and biologics, not required, but preferred

Behavioural Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Good Negotiation and Influencing skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with Regulatory and cross-functional teams across US - India time zones.
• People management skills   

Benefits Offered