IP Counsel

YOU’LL BE OUR: IP Counsel (Analytics)

YOU’LL BE BASED AT: IBC Knowledge Park, Bangalore

YOU’LL BE ALIGNED WITH: Chief IP Counsel

YOU’LL BE A MEMBER OF: Corporate Legal

Role Summary:

Reporting to the Chief IP Counsel, the intellectual property counsel will implement the strategic vision addressing Ather’s current and future intellectual property and work in partnership with other senior leaders to implement overall strategic directives.

Her/his core responsibilities includes patent portfolio management, IP Searches (Patentability (prior art), Freedom to Operate), patent drafting, prosecution, and enforcement. IP Counsel would be overlooking and support the team with patent analytics and intelligence. Further, s/he would have to review publication, prepare due diligence reports, and maintain MIS of teamwork. The IP counsel will be an integral working partner with the company’s research and development teams, strategic business units, and corporate counsels, and will be a team member of Ather’s intellectual property department. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• This position requires an accomplished patent agent with an accessible and enthusiastic personal style and strong business orientation, being an active listener and observer.

• Bechlor’s/Master’s degree with specialization in Electronics/Electric/Computer engineeringfrom a premium engineering college or university.

• S/he will have a minimum of 2 years and maximum 6 years of relevant intellectual property experience with in-depth early training and broad inhouse R&D experience or in a IP law firm, including experience managing high volume intellectual property workflow, and experience with both national and international patent systems.

• Exposure to all forms of IP viz. Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Designs and Trade secrets, with specialization in patents (analytics, prosecution, and drafting) 

• Must have the ability to build relationships that foster a cohesive, committed team environment and to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

• It is imperative that the individual have excellent interpersonal skills, be articulate, direct and forthright, and be a collaborative and decisive team member and a strategic thinker with a broad perspective.

• Strong ability to adapt to changes and to be agile.

• The successful candidate will have an intense commitment to high moral standards and business ethics.

• Have a strong track record of building and managing a high performing team

What you’ll do at ATHER:

• Implementation of IP Strategy of Organization. 

• Invention Scouting: working with R&D teams to identify potential protectable inventions and designs and help them development of said inventions and designs. 

• IP Creation & Registration: Working with inventors/stakeholders to register the patents, TM’s, Designs.

• IP Prosecution & Maintenance: Working with associate firms to develop strategy to response to office actions, hearings, perform IP maintenance activities. 

• Analytics & Due Diligence: Carry out or assist in various analytics & due diligence projects like Freedom-to-operate, availability searches, landscapes, prior art searches, whitespace etc. 

• Monitor the competitor Patent activity in EV space and update the stakeholders.

• Provide internal IP consultations and clearances.

• Manage support activities like budgeting, IP audits, due diligence. 

• Work with other teams like Corporate Legal, Marketing, R&D to provide IP consultations and clearances. 

• Manage overall IP management process & its dashboards, including open-source compliance, patent risk assessment etc.

• To frontend & coordinate with all internal stakeholders & law firms for all patent, design, copyright, trademark or domain name disputes or litigations.