Intellectual Property Specialist

5 days ago

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Pharmascience Full time

As a key member of the Pharmascience team, the Intellectual Property Specialist will play a crucial role in enhancing patent protection and clearance of the company's licensed and/or internally developed products. This position requires a global perspective on IP matters and policy to support country, regional, and international operations.

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be responsible for advising and counseling internal clients on various Intellectual Property matters involving patents and regulatory exclusivities. This includes:

  • Designing and implementing effective Intellectual Property Strategies from product selection to launch, considering business objectives, patent landscape, regulatory exclusivities, and local regulatory requirements.
  • Participating in pipeline product selection by assessing generic market entry dates, regulatory submission dates, and launch dates in targeted countries, in view of business objectives, patent landscape, regulatory exclusivities, local, and regulatory requirements.
  • Advising the R&D team on formulation development, taking into account the patent landscape and established IP strategy to mitigate litigation risk.
  • Timely and effectively communicating key changes on the IP landscape affecting project timelines and litigation risks.
  • Performing patentability, validity, and freedom-to-operate (infringement) searches, including web, patent databases, and literature searches.
  • Performing intellectual property due diligences to support business development transactions.
  • Supporting internal litigation on Intellectual Property related proceedings, challenges, disputes, and litigation.
  • Staying current with relevant Intellectual Property legislative developments in core markets.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

The ideal candidate will possess an excellent scientific background in organic chemistry, biochemistry, and/or formulation development. Knowledge in the following areas is also desirable:

  • Concepts relating to formulation development, stereochemistry, solid-state structure of active pharmaceutical ingredients, particle size distribution, X-ray powder diffraction analysis, Differential scanning calorimetry, and other analytical methods.
  • Regulatory exclusivities, such as data protection and market exclusivity for new pharmaceutical products in CA, US, and Europe, as well as other patent-related exclusivities.
  • PMNOC Regulations in Canada and basic understanding of Hatch-Waxman litigation process in the US.
  • Bilingual (French & English) given the interactions with international external partners.
  • Ability to navigate patent databases, including CIPO, USPTO, EPO-Patent Register, Espacenet, Orbit/Questel/Patsnap, and equivalent databases.
  • Knowledge and understanding of relevant Intellectual Property legal principles.
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and understand business needs.
  • Self-starter with a proven ability to work as part of a cross-functional team.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Access, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

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