Team Lead – Patent Prosecution

Roles & Responsibilities

- To handle Patent Drafting, Filing, Prosecution and Maintenance.
- Maintaining patent portfolio and regular interaction with R&D; team for IPR strategies.
- Patentability Searches - Conducting keyword and amino acid/nucleotide sequence based patent and non-patent literature searches in various databases.
- Patentability analysis of proposed inventions, IP opinion and suggestions to be shared with R&D; team
- Interaction with external attorneys for Patent Drafting, Filing, Prosecution and Maintenance in different jurisdictions.
- Responding to stakeholders on Patent Filing, Prosecution, and IP related queries.
- To prepare IP opinion and report for patentability and freedom-to-operate (FTO) assessments.




- Drafting of patent applications and filing the same in various jurisdictions-USPTO, EPO, WIPO, IPO, JPO etc.
- Analysis of patent examination report or office actions and preparing response of the same.
- Handling pre-grant/post-grant patent opposition and patent litigation (defence of Novel patents) in various jurisdictions
- Preparing patent prosecution summaries.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Qualification : MTech/Ph.D (Biotechnology) + Patent Agent, LL.B (Desirable)

Experience : 12-15 years

📌 Team Lead – Patent Prosecution (Bengaluru)
🏢 Biocon
📍 Bengaluru