Accountabilities
Major Activities
Key Performance Indicators
Protection of IP assets
Ensure protection and defence of intellectual property including Know- How • Harvest and evaluate invention disclosures, initiate novelty searches and support analysis of data • Ensure registration, enforcement, maintenance and defence of trademarks • Draft patent application and prosecution thereof • Defend IP rights attack from 3rd parties • Assist in review of patents and trademarks • Identifying IP infringements and enforcing patents and trademarks
Nil reported infringement
IP Risk Management
Conduct patent Landscaping and freedom – to – operate evaluation pertaining to company product portfolio • Conduct patentability searches, literature search, IP analysis • Ensure proper IP risk management to enable product launches – Patentability assessment, patent drafting, filing, and online PCT filing. • Define and take countermeasures vs. competitors IP and intelligence • FTO analysis, opposition/Invalidation actions, joint development, IP Due Diligence etc. • Evaluate IP concerns at early-stage product selecting, key blocking patents by innovator, market exclusivity studies (SPC, NCE)
Nil incidence of filing violations and rejections
Scientific Information Management, Patent Filing and IP Awareness
Support with respect to all search requests including patent information. • Drafting, filing and prosecution of Patents in different jurisdictions worldwide • IP Counselling to R&D teams, prior art searches, infringement, white space and patentability analysis. • Use database to retrieve external information relevant to the Company • Keep all stakeholders updated of major IP legal developments • Perform IP awareness training for R and D and technology team • Understanding of US, EP, PCT, CN, IN Patent Laws and Procedures • Literature searches using various databases using Data Mining Tools
Quality of search
Protection of IP assets
• Ensure protection and defence of intellectual property including Know- How • Harvest and evaluate invention disclosures, initiate novelty searches and support analysis of data • Ensure registration, enforcement, maintenance and defence of trademarks • Draft patent application and prosecution thereof. Defend IPR rights attack from 3rd parties • Draft IP agreements. Assist in review of patents and trademarks • Identifying IP infringements and enforcing patents and trademarks
Nil reported infringement
