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