Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights

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March 22, 2021

The team understands how intellectual property (“IP”) assets can best be created; value thereto determined and rights therein protected and used/ acquired/ supplemented to produce a competitive advantage. The team provides advice and assistance to its clients with respect to due diligence (routinely uncovering issues in chain of title, encumbrances/obligations, or enforcement/prosecution/ deficiencies often left undetected), acquisition of IP and related agreements and partnerships/ joint ventures with an aim to transfer/ share/ development of IP.

The team advises and assists clients on:

  • Protection and prosecution of IP rights (including patents, trademarks, design rights, copyrights, geographical indications, domain names, proprietary know-how and business processes);
  • IP due-diligence and audits;
  • IP acquisition and transfer and related agreements;
  • Drafting and negotiating license agreements, assignment deeds, IP development agreements, etc;
  • Representing before various authorities, courts and forums on issues relating to registration and protection of IP rights.
  • Prosecution [Trademark, Patent, Copyright & Designs];
  • Business transactions [structuring, licensing, franchising, joint-ventures, mergers & acquisitions, IP audits / Due Diligence];
  • Litigation (including enforcement / anti-piracy);
  • Policy Development (advisory as well as legislative drafting support, deposing before parliamentary committees etc.).
  • Registration Renewal of trade/service marks, copyrights, patents and designs
  • Initial investigations into potential patentability of inventions
  • License agreements including shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses
  • Merchandising agreements
  • Assisting clients in obtaining and protecting domain names
  • Infringement and Passing-off action
  • Counterfeit Product Investigation/Seizure
  • Trade secrets

Our Intellectual Property team has expertise in all areas of trade/service mark, trade secret, copyright and patent law. We advise our clients on the selection, availability, use and registration of trade/service marks, patents and copyright applications within India and abroad.  This practice area contains several individuals with scientific backgrounds to facilitate patent prosecution. We also have attorneys who have extensive experience in the litigation of intellectual property conflicts.  In addition, our team is also experienced in negotiating and drafting a variety of license agreements.

Intellectual Property Rights

The team understands how intellectual property (“IP”) assets can best be created; value thereto determined and rights therein protected and used/ acquired/ supplemented to produce a competitive advantage. The team provides advice and assistance to its clients with respect to due diligence (routinely uncovering issues in chain of title, encumbrances/obligations, or enforcement/prosecution/ deficiencies often left undetected), acquisition of IP and related agreements and partnerships/ joint ventures with an aim to transfer/ share/ development of IP.

The team advises and assists clients on:

  • Protection and prosecution of IP rights (including patents, trademarks, design rights, copyrights, geographical indications, domain names, proprietary know-how and business processes);
  • IP due-diligence and audits;
  • IP acquisition and transfer and related agreements;
  • Drafting and negotiating license agreements, assignment deeds, IP development agreements, etc;
  • Representing before various authorities, courts and forums on issues relating to registration and protection of IP rights.
  • Prosecution [Trademark, Patent, Copyright & Designs];
  • Business transactions [structuring, licensing, franchising, joint-ventures, mergers & acquisitions, IP audits / Due Diligence];
  • Litigation (including enforcement / anti-piracy);
  • Policy Development (advisory as well as legislative drafting support, deposing before parliamentary committees etc.).
  • Registration Renewal of trade/service marks, copyrights, patents and designs
  • Initial investigations into potential patentability of inventions
  • License agreements including shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses
  • Merchandising agreements
  • Assisting clients in obtaining and protecting domain names
  • Infringement and Passing-off action
  • Counterfeit Product Investigation/Seizure
  • Trade secrets

Our Intellectual Property team has expertise in all areas of trade/service mark, trade secret, copyright and patent law. We advise our clients on the selection, availability, use and registration of trade/service marks, patents and copyright applications within India and abroad.  This practice area contains several individuals with scientific backgrounds to facilitate patent prosecution. We also have attorneys who have extensive experience in the litigation of intellectual property conflicts.  In addition, our team is also experienced in negotiating and drafting a variety of license agreements.