Job purpose & Scope: IP Attorney
Major Areas of Responsibilities:
Strategizing end to end IP protection for the Company including:
(a) Strategizing IP protection of Iconic brand “Bajaj” with its suffix brands (and other smaller brands and copyrights);
(b) Strategizing support for innovation in products and designs) working closely with the R&D; leadership; and
(c) Risk mitigation by structuring, building and maintaining process check points in the products development cycle so as to ensure Company is not in breach of third party IP.
This role manages a team of 3 (Patents Attorney; Trademarks Attorney; and Trademarks Support) and as a team they manage the below key areas:
1. Inventions -
Managing Protection of Patentable Inventions and Freedom to Operate analysis:
Advise on Patentability - including evaluating inventions with inventors.
Advise on Freedom to Operate - including analyzing issued or pending patents to assess whether a product / process may be considered to infringe any patent(s) owned by others.
Patent Drafting and filing – Draft specifications (detailed descriptions) covering techno-legal aspects of patentable inventions.
Review changes suggested by inventors.
Suggest modifications or extensions to the definition of the invention.
o Examination of Patents
Preparing responses to examination reports from patent examiners
Managing hearings before patent examiners and preparing responses.
o Advise on white-space analysis - including preparing reports of existing, granted and filed patents and informing the inventors/designers of a space which can be explored further for development of recent products, services and processes.
o Exploratory searches - Supporting the development team with aspects related to patents filed by third parties
2. Managing Brands (including Trademarks and Copyrights):
o Conducting Trademark Availability Searches and providing advisory to business of registration on TM
o Registration of various Trademark in India and across globe