About the Organisation
Flipkart is India’s largest e-commerce marketplace with a registered customer base of over 100 million. In the 10 years since it started, Flipkart has come to offer over 80 million products across 80+ categories including Smartphones, Books, Media, Consumer Electronics, Furniture, Fashion and Lifestyle. Launched in October 2007, Flipkart is known for its path-breaking services like Cash on Delivery, No cost EMI and a 10-day replacement policy. Flipkart was the pioneer in offering services like In-a-Day Guarantee (65 cities) and Same-Day-Guarantee (13 cities) at scale. With over 1,00,000 registered sellers, Flipkart has redefined the way brands and MSME’s do business online.
Job Description
MANAGER/ SENIOR MANAGER – LITIGATION & IP
COMPANY | FLIPKART GROUP |
LOCATION | BANGALORE |
REPORTS TO | HEAD LEGAL & COMPLIANCE |
QUALIFICATION | MASTERS OR GRADUATE OF LAW FROM REPUTED UNIVERSITY |
WORK EXPERIENCE | 6+ YEARS preferably in banking, insurance, ecommerce or services industry. |
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance and advice to team involved in prosecuting or defending criminal, civil and consumer cases for and against the Company and IP matters related to filing, rectification, challenges and proceedings before the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks or defending against allegations of infringement, passing off or contributory liability
- Manage subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs. True first level manager. Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met while adhering to approved budgets.
- Developing internal procedures, promoting effective teamwork preparing and reviewing court filings. Developing trial strategies, develop and implement wide range of best practices.
- Full responsibility for litigation outcome and budgets. Efficiently manages external counsels, arguing counsels and law firms.
- Meeting with and advising business, operations and functional teams on ongoing or potential litigation.
- Ability to identify potential litigation and proactively plan action to mitigate legal, business and financial risks client. Review details of cases and determine a strategy should the case make it to trial or advise teams about handling the case out of court.
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