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Manager – IP – Corporate Office Location: Corporate Office, HyderabadFunction: API BusinessDepartment: Intellectual property rightsAbout the Role:The Intellectual Property (IP) Manager will oversee and protect the company's patent portfolio in the pharmaceutical industry. This role involves managing patent filings, ensuring compliance with IP laws, and supporting the R&D and legal teams in all patent-related matters. Responsible for conducting patent searches, support to R&D development processes, patent drafting, patent filing and prosecution of patent applications and enable early product launches in regulated and key emerging markets.Key Job Responsibilities:Conduct patent searches to identify potential IP blocking on in-house development process.Support R&D teams in developing an alternate process, to work around blocking of the Ip’s.Preparation of non-infringement and infringement opinion for in-house products. Conduct the patentability searches to identify potential inventions of in-house products.Patent drafting and prosecuting the patent application by responding to the objections raised by various patent offices.Prepare a detailed landscape and freedom to operate reports by designing and implementing search strategies to identify the patents and applications relevant to a product.Developing invalidation grounds if required and providing input and supporting documents.What a good candidate will bring:Minimum of 10 - 14 years of experience in IP management, preferably in API Pharma / Intermediates.Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, including its processes, technologies, and market dynamics.Knowledge of API development cycle.In-depth understanding of intellectual property (IP) laws in key markets worldwideProficiency in interpreting IP laws, especially as they pertain to decisions delivered by patent litigations.Job Specification: Practical Prior experience in handling Patent, patent portfolio management.Excellent analytical and strategic thinking.Strong communication and organizational skills.QualificationMasters’s degree in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, or related field.Other pre-requisites:Strong analytical skills and an eye for detail.Good writing skills, and potential to work independently.Good interpersonal skills.Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, timeline-driven environment.Innovative and creative mindset Experience of managing contracts with external parties.Possesses excellent science communication, organization, management, and administrative skills.About SigachiSigachi Industries Limited is a Public Listed Healthcare company working in domains of Pharmaceutical, Food & Nutrition industry. Sigachi was incorporated in the year 1989 and is one of the largest manufacturers of cellulose & cellulose-based products worldwide. Sigachi’s five multilocational facilities in Telangana, Gujarat and Karnataka are EXCiPACT GMP, SGMP, HACCP, EDQM CEP, FSSAI and ISO 9001:2015 certified. Sigachi has established itself as a quality conscious and dependable supplier in India and across Asia, Australia, American Continent, Europe, and Middle East, delivering newer differentiated Products which addresses the unmet needs of the Market. Sigachi is a value driven company and fosters employee creativity, expertise, skillsets & wellbeing to achieve motto of “Experience Excellence.” The vision is to create a happy, healthy, and joyful world. Sigachi is a “Great Place to Work” certified company. Sigachi is poised for exponential growth in the coming years, both organic & inorganic through expansions, diversification, acquisition, mergers.Our Commitment to DEI: Sigachi is committed to cultivating, fostering, and preserving a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Our DEI-based hiring & people management practices thrive and hire people from diverse backgrounds with wide ideas and varied experience who can collectively contribute to overall business growth.