Position: Manager – Trade Mark

Position Summary:

The Manager – Trademarks will take complete end-to-end ownership of the organization’s trademark and brand protection portfolio across two distinct business verticals: FMCG
(fast-paced, high-volume product launches and aggressive marketing timelines) and
Pharmaceuticals
(highly regulated, therapeutic-class restricted, and high-risk).

This role requires a blend of rapid-track clearable strategies and strict regulatory risk mitigation. You will oversee brand, product name, and logo clearances, manage full-lifecycle prosecution, handle contentious proceedings, and drive external counsel to align trademark strategies with commercial goals.

Key Responsibilities

1. End-to-End Search & Brand Clearance
- Conduct comprehensive trademark, preliminary, and availability searches for proposed brand names, product names, logos, taglines, and trade dress across global and regional databases.
- Evaluate risks for fast-moving
FMCG
launches (ensuring speed-to-market without infringing third-party rights) and
Pharma




products (evaluating phonetic/visual similarities, look-alike sound-alike [LASA] risks, and safety/regulatory overlaps).
- Deliver clear, actionable legal risk assessments and clearance opinions to marketing, R&D;, and executive leadership.

2. Registration, Prosecution & Portfolio Management
- Manage the entire lifecycle of trademark applications from filing to registration, renewals, and maintenance across international jurisdictions (via Madrid System or direct filings).
- Draft, file, and track trademark applications across relevant classes
- Prepare robust, strategic responses to Examination Reports and official objections issued by Trademark Registries.

3. Contentious Matters (Objections, Oppositions & Enforcement)
- Identify, draft, and file Oppositions, Rectifications, Revocations, and Invalidations against infringing third-party marks.
- Draft legal notices, cease-and-desist letters, counter-statements, and evid

📌 Manager - Trade Mark (Delhi)
🏢 Panacea Biotec
📍 Delhi