Our team advises clients with all intellectual property transactions, including their most important and complicated ones and we are well known as a leading practice for this specialty, particularly in regards to transactions with cross-border implications.

We offer:

• Advice on all forms of transactions and agreements relating to the commercialization of all forms of intellectual property, including acquisition, disposal and licensing;
• Advice on intellectual property holding structures and re-structuring;
• Joint ownership and commercialization agreements, often in the context of the development of rights and split commercialization;
• Protocols for management of intellectual property, including jointly owned portfolios or pools of property;
• Related agreements such as research and development agreements, confidentiality undertakings, and various contracts and practical arrangements for protecting know-how;
• Franchising, merchandising, sponsorship and other forms of transaction based on brands.
• Our services cover all instruments of IP domain, i.e., Trademark, Copyright, Design and Patents and all stages of business cycle; planning, establishing, consolidating and growth.
• Planning: Advice on IP strategies to establish IP assets, secure IP rights, manage risks and leverage investments;
• Establishing:  Registering and protecting IP rights;
• Consolidating: Strengthening IP rights, maximizing risk protections and continuous market surveillance;
• Growth: Leveraging and monetizing IP assets to ensure faster business growth.

 Trademark

• Trademark Registration & protection
• Trademark Dispute Resolution
• Trademark Searching & Clearance
• Trademark Filling & Prosecution
• Enforcement of Trademark Rights
• The acquisition, enforcement and licensing of trade marks  worldwide
• Trade mark, design and copyright infringement proceedings and passing off
• Trade mark oppositions

Copyright

• Copyright & Media Registration & Protection
• Copyright Filling and Prosecution
• Licensing of Copyright
• Infringement and enforcement of Copyright
• Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

Design

• Industrial design
• Design clearance and searching
• Design filing and prosecution
• Infringement proceedings

Patent

• Patent Registration
• Patent Litigation
• Patent litigation, including claims for or relating to patent infringement, revocation of patents, declarations of non-infringement of patents, relief for groundless ‘threats’ of infringement proceedings, patent amendment, patent ownership/entitlement and employee compensation.
• patent licensing and royalty disputes
• Patent term extension requests
• Patent portfolio and exploitation strategies
• Investigations involving the patent strategies of third parties

Domain

• Domain name recovery service for brand owners
• Domain name registration and portfolio management
• Advice for registrars and other intermediaries in domain name cases
• Internet Domain Name

Renewal

• Active Renewal management can save your business significant money.
• Renewal of Trademarks, Copyrights, Design & Patent.

Market Surveillance Services

Our uniquely designed Market Surveillance Services (MSS) continuously reviews risks to IP assets of our clients, update IPR holders and support in IPR protection and enforcements. All our clients as well as selected potential clients receive information through our MSS Free of Cost.

• Review of regulatory publications and market watch.
• Reporting and prosecuting infringement and counterfeiting.
• Risk assessment of deceptive trade names and marks.

By way of controlling of infringement/counterfeit, we render following services to our clients.

• Identifying the infringers and counterfeiters
• Issuance a legal/warning notices to the infringers/counterfeiters and publication of such notices in the press.
• In case of violation of IP rights; take legal action with concerned law enforcement agencies i.e. Police / Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Custom authorities.
• Lodging of F.I.R against the infringers/counterfeiters before appropriate department.
• Seizure & confiscation of counterfeit goods / products and seizure of premises where applicable.
• Post raid proceedings i.e. contesting of bail and conducting the trial before the Court till final decision.

Management Consulting services