Associate Patent Attorney ( Pharma )

• As an Associate Patent Attorney/Patent Attorney(Pharma) you are expected to have strong technical knowledge, analytical skills and good communication and interpersonal skills

• Additionally, you will be responsible for handling prosecution for Novo Nordisk s patent applications in India and in Rest of the World (RoW) countries
• Also, you will be required to conduct patent searches, such as Novelty and invalidity (including sequence searches) independently and provide support to business development activities of the organisation
• You should be able to handle patent prosecution and carry out patent searches with the minimal assistance from senior colleagues

Qualifications

We are expecting you to hold the below skills and knowledge:

• Minimum of master s degree in biotechnology, Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry or related fields.

• 5 to 10 years of experience in handling patent prosecution in biotech, life-sciences, or Biopharma domain and conducting various patent searches, patentability, invalidity and FtO in pharma/biotech domain.

• Well versed with sequence and structure searches and patent and scientific databases, such as STN, PatBase/Derwent Innovation, SciFinder etc.

• Certified as Patent Agent/Attorney in India(preferred).

• Should have good understanding of patent law and practice in India and other major jurisdictions such as US, EU and JP and also should be well versed with key concepts of IP evaluations, such as patentability, freedom to operate, validity assessment.

• Exposure of working in an in-house team of company or global firm would be an advantage.

• Should be willing to take additional responsibilities for supporting local or global in-house projects as and when needed and also should have good interpersonal skills, ability to work independently as well as in team, taking initiative and being detail-oriented.