Intellectual Property
An Indian trade mark is worth what its owner is willing to enforce, and infringers price that in.
What we do
We protect and enforce intellectual property in India for domestic and international brand owners. Searches, filing and prosecution of trade marks and designs, and oppositions and rectifications. Copyright protection, assignment and licensing, including the statutory positions on authorship and moral rights that surprise foreign licensors. Enforcement, which is where the practice lives, through cease and desist, civil suits, John Doe orders, interim injunctions, local commissioner appointments, customs recordal and criminal complaints where the counterfeiting is organised. Online enforcement against marketplaces, domain names and social platforms. Licensing, franchising and merchandising agreements, drafted with the quality control obligations that keep the mark alive. Anti-counterfeiting strategy across a portfolio, which means deciding what not to enforce as much as what to pursue, since a brand owner who litigates everything litigates badly.
Experience
The matters below are described without identifying the client, unless the client has consented in writing to being named.
