Patent Associate
Openings Mumbai
Job Overview
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Date Posted:
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Location:
Mumbai -
Company:
Stratologon Software Solutions Pvt Ltd -
Jobs Type:
Patent- Law firms -
Job Categories:
Senior Associate -
Qualification:
B.Tech/ B.E -
Experience:
5-10 Years
Full description
- Patent Drafting & Prosecution
- Work closely with IP Managers & Attorneys for new patent filings, including claims drafting.
- Work closely with IP Managers & Attorneys to manage active patent prosecution.
- Patent Analytics
- Closely work with IP Managers & IP SMEs at the Global Franchises and identify opportunities for proactively protecting the Intellectual Property (IP)
- Closely work with patent attorneys/patent liaisons and act as a link between R&D, Legal team and the Business Leaders for IP related matters
- Conduct landscape/ ”White Space” searches/analysis for identifying new areas and strategic directions for the organization
- Conduct prior art, freedom to operate (FTO), and validity searches for various R&D projects.
- Proactively monitor competitor activities through patent literature and periodically assess and identify potential new competitors.
- Generate weekly patent alerts in the technical areas of interest for monitoring new developments.
- Assist patent attorneys for patent due diligence work.
- Execute other critical IP projects.
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Technical Competencies /Skills & Experience
- 8 – 10 years of IP Experience including
- Patent Drafting & Prosecution Experience
- Draft and write or amend Draft Patent Claims
- Draft Responses to objections to grant of patent raised by Patent Examiners in Examination Reports
- Draft Specification for patenting an invention or new technology.
- Well-versed in interpretation of various provisions of the Patents Act, 1970, and the Patent Rules, 2003, etc.
- Well versed with IPO e-filing portal.
- Patent Analytics Experience
- Ability to develop complex search strategies and taxonomies to search across various patent and scientific literature databases.
- Prior Art Searching for Patentability Assessment, Freedom to Operate Analysis, Patent Validity
- Experience in drafting expanded disclosures and office action responses.
- Strategic IP Analytics including Technology Landscapes, White Space Analysis, Competitive Intelligence
- Proficient in searching with various databases including Derwent Innovation, Orbit, PatSnap, STN, Espacenet and USPTO etc.
- Proficient in searching scientific literature databases like Science Direct, Scirus etc.
- Patent Drafting & Prosecution Experience
- Good understanding of Patent Law – TRIPS agreement, Composition of US, EPO, India and China Patents, standards of patentability and differences between patent law of different jurisdictions
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Patent Drafting & Prosecution
- Claims Drafting
- Specification Drafting
- Drafting responses to Office Actions
- Patent Analytics
- Novelty Searches
- Freedom to Operate Searches
- Patent Landscapes