| Accountabilities |
Major Activities |
Key Performance Indicators |
| Protection of IP assets |
Ensure protection and defence of intellectual property including Know- How • Harvest and evaluate invention disclosures, initiate novelty searches and support analysis of data • Ensure registration, enforcement, maintenance and defence of trademarks • Draft patent application and prosecution thereof • Defend IP rights attack from 3rd parties • Assist in review of patents and trademarks • Identifying IP infringements and enforcing patents and trademarks |
Nil reported infringement |
| IP Risk Management |
Conduct patent Landscaping and freedom – to – operate evaluation pertaining to company product portfolio • Conduct patentability searches, literature search, IP analysis • Ensure proper IP risk management to enable product launches – Patentability assessment, patent drafting, filing, and online PCT filing. • Define and take countermeasures vs. competitors IP and intelligence • FTO analysis, opposition/Invalidation actions, joint development, IP Due Diligence etc. • Evaluate IP concerns at early-stage product selecting, key blocking patents by innovator, market exclusivity studies (SPC, NCE) |
Nil incidence of filing violations and rejections |
| Scientific Information Management, Patent Filing and IP Awareness |
Support with respect to all search requests including patent information. • Drafting, filing and prosecution of Patents in different jurisdictions worldwide • IP Counselling to R&D teams, prior art searches, infringement, white space and patentability analysis. • Use database to retrieve external information relevant to the Company • Keep all stakeholders updated of major IP legal developments • Perform IP awareness training for R and D and technology team • Understanding of US, EP, PCT, CN, IN Patent Laws and Procedures • Literature searches using various databases using Data Mining Tools |
Quality of search |
| Protection of IP assets |
• Ensure protection and defence of intellectual property including Know- How • Harvest and evaluate invention disclosures, initiate novelty searches and support analysis of data • Ensure registration, enforcement, maintenance and defence of trademarks • Draft patent application and prosecution thereof. Defend IPR rights attack from 3rd parties • Draft IP agreements. Assist in review of patents and trademarks • Identifying IP infringements and enforcing patents and trademarks |
Nil reported infringement |
