Intellectual Property and Data Manager
This exciting new opportunity will provide specialist, professional advice, leadership and operational IP management support to the IP & Commercialisation Team within the University’s Innovation, Enterprise & Engagement Directorate (IEED). The role holder will work as part of the team that provides specialist advice and support to academic staff on the protection and commercialisation of innovations arising from their university research activities leading to widespread and enduring impact beyond academia. The role holder will attend relevant external courses to support continued professional development.
Responsible for:
1. Managing a large and complex portfolio of patents, ensuring the correct actions have been undertaken, relevant fees paid, and appropriate decisions taken to curate the portfolio.
2. Ensuring accurate and up to date project, patent and other registered IP records are maintained on the university intellectual property management system.
3. Manage the cost-effective use of university patent agents and lawyers in delivery of diligence and project outcomes.
4. Ensuring all service charges and official fees in relation to the IP portfolio are accurately recorded, working closely with the Finance teams across the University.
5. Liaise with the IEEDD administrative team in relation to the processing of invoices in relation to the patent budget and cost recoveries.
6. Ensure timely processing and actioning of routine correspondence between the University, inventors and the patent agents and ensuring critical deadlines are met.
7. Build and maintain effective working relationships with academic and professional services staff through the provision of specialist intellectual property expertise to deliver project outcomes.
8. Patent formality administration: identify, check and action patent formalities, (For example, Powers of Attorney, confirmatory assignments and inventor declarations).
9. Supporting the IP & Commercialisation Team with preparing standard form agreements, primarily revenue sharing agreements and inter-institutional agreements and liaising with relevant parties (internally and externally) in this regard.
10. Ensure that details of licenses and spin-out transactions are appropriately recorded on systems and details shared with the Finance Office and legal team.
11. Collect, collate and record in a database all information received in relation to each GU Holdings portfolio company.
12. Support invention assessments including prior-art, freedom to operate searching and market research.
13. Compiling reports using the university intellectual property management system to provide the metrics required for reporting to HE-BCI, research funders (e.g. Wellcome Trust, BHF), Colleges, Schools and university management
The University of Glasgow has been changing the world since 1451. We are a world top 100 university and a member of the prestigious Russell Group of leading UK research universities.
Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation, including eight Nobel Laureates, two UK Prime Ministers, three First Ministers of Scotland, 10 Fellows of the Royal Society and 11 Fellows of the British Academy. Our past achievements inspire our current world changers.
As a globally connected university, we work in partnership with others across the world to advance global solutions to real world problems. We are proud to be a founding member of the university networks Universitas 21 and The Guild of European Research Intensive Universities.
We are committed to tackling the most pressing global challenges facing humanity and the natural world. We are delivering against the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and have pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030. We were the first European university to declare it would divest from fossil fuels by 2024 and the first in Scotland to declare a climate emergency.
We believe that everyone should have fair access to education. We are proud of our long tradition of helping talented people to fulfil their ambitions, regardless of their background or circumstances. Our University of Sanctuary status recognises the safe and welcoming environment we provide for refugees and asylum seekers.
We are home to The Hunterian, our museum and art gallery, one of the leading university museums in the world. We have the world’s largest permanent display of the work of James McNeill Whistler and the largest single holding of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.