Role & responsibilities

IPM (Formulation)

Company: MSN Laboratories

Department: IPM Formulation

Location: Pashamylaram, Hyderabad, Telangana

Designation: Executive / Senior Executive / Assistant Manager / Deputy Manager

Experience: 2-10 Years

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Formulation / API / Biotechnology | Executive to Deputy Manager

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Function: Intellectual Property Rights – Formulation / API / Biotechnology

Designation: Executive / Senior Executive / Assistant Manager / Deputy Manager

Experience: 2–10 Years

Industry: Pharmaceutical / API / Biotechnology

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Purpose To support and manage intellectual property activities across Formulation, API, and Biotechnology, including patent searching, patentability assessment, prior-art analysis, IP landscaping, freedom-to-operate (FTO) assessment, patent drafting support, prosecution coordination, and IP portfolio management.

Key Responsibilities

1. Patent Searching & Prior-Art Analysis

- Conduct comprehensive patent and non-patent literature searches for pharmaceutical and biotechnology inventions.
- Perform prior-art searches using databases such as Google Patents, Espacenet, WIPO Patentscope, USPTO, and other relevant patent databases.
- Analyze patent specifications, claims, prosecution history, and legal status.
- Identify relevant prior art for formulation, API process, analytical methods, drug delivery systems, biologics, and biotechnology inventions.
- Prepare prior-art search reports and technical summaries.

2. Patentability Assessment

- Evaluate inventions for novelty, inventive step/non-obviousness, industrial applicability, and patent eligibility in coordination with technical and legal teams.
- Review invention disclosures received from Formulation R&D;, API R&D;, Process R&D;, Analytical R&D;, and Biotechnology teams.
- Identify potentially patentable features in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.




- Support preparation of invention disclosure forms and invention assessment reports.
- Coordinate with inventors and scientists to understand technical aspects of inventions.

3. Formulation IP

- Conduct patent analysis related to:

- Novel formulations

- Drug delivery systems

- Solid oral dosage forms
- Controlled/modified-release formulations

- Combination products

- Pharmaceutical compositions
- Polymorphs, salts, solvates and solid-state forms

- Process and manufacturing improvements

- Stability and formulation technologies
- Analyze formulation patent claims and assess potential IP risks during product development.

4. API / Process IP

- Perform patent searches and analysis relating to:

- API synthesis routes

- Novel intermediates

- Process improvements

- Polymorphs and crystalline forms

- Salts and solvates

- Chiral resolution

- Catalytic processes
- Impurity-control strategies

- Alternative manufacturing processes
- Support process R&D; teams in identifying potentially patentable process innovations.
- Conduct FTO-oriented analysis for proposed API manufacturing routes.

5. Biotechnology IP

- Support IP activities related to:

- Biologics

- Biosimilars

- Recombinant proteins

- Monoclonal antibodies
- Cell and gene therapy technologies

- Microbial/biotechnological processes

- Fermentation technologies
- Cell lines and expression systems
- Biological assays and analytical technologies
- Analyze patent claims covering biological molecules, sequences, processes, formulations, and manufacturing technologies.

6.



Freedom-to-Operate (FTO)

- Conduct preliminary FTO searches and landscape analysis for recent products, formulations, API processes, and biotechnology projects.
- Identify potentially relevant third-party patents and patent families.
- Analyze claim scope and relevance to proposed products/processes.
- Prepare FTO search reports and technical claim charts in coordination with patent counsel.
- Track patent expiry, legal status, and relevant prosecution developments.

7. Patent Drafting & Prosecution Support

- Prepare technical inputs for patent specifications and claims.
- Work with external patent attorneys/counsels for drafting and filing patent applications.
- Review patent drafts for technical accuracy and consistency with the underlying invention.
- Support responses to patent office examination reports, objections, and office actions.
- Coordinate with inventors and patent counsel during prosecution.
- Maintain records of filing dates, priority dates, applications, grants, and prosecution status.

8. IP Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

- Conduct technology and competitor patent landscaping.
- Identify emerging technologies, competitors, patent trends, and potential white spaces.
- Prepare patent landscape reports for Formulation, API, and Biotechnology projects.
- Monitor competitor patent filings and relevant changes in patent portfolios.
- Provide IP intelligence to R&D;, Business Development, Regulatory, and management teams.

9. IP Portfolio Management

- Maintain and update patent databases and IP trackers.
- Monitor patent filing, prosecution, grant, renewal, and expiry timelines.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external counsel for portfolio management.
- Maintain invention disclosures, patent applications, search reports, FTO reports, and related IP documentation.
- Support periodic review of the organization's IP portfolio.

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