Patent counsel with 14 years in Intelectual property

1) Jul’2012 to continue..... with Intellectual Property Wanbury Ltd., Navi Mumbai as Deputy General Manager (Head)\r\nKey Result Areas: \r\n Leading a IP Team of 3 people supporting Generic API/Formulation \r\n Conceptualizing & developing strategy to develop an area, strengthen patent to support product and work on potential road blocks for third party\r\n Mentoring Scientific Teams for identifying invention and capturing it in the form of patent application\r\n Assessing markets for invention and prosecuting application in geographies of interest with optimized cost\r\n Providing support to business development for strategy fix on to molecule launching (ANDA) in market\r\n Analyzing patent draft, patent infringement, validity and freedom-to-operate opinions\r\n Securing intellectual property protection e.g. patents for inventions and discoveries made by Wanbury or licensed to Wanbury\r\n Developing a strong patent portfolio by filing and prosecuting patent applications worldwide\r\n Monitoring P-IV filling & method of use (section VIII) case studies\r\n Supervising cost of filing, prosecution, litigation and FTO activities\r\n Formulating & executing plans for differentiated and niche generic plus product portfolio \r\n