We assist our clients with A-Z IP services pertaining to
trademarks; copyrights; patents; designs; geographical indications; plant
varieties, farmer’s and breeder’s rights; technical know-how; trade secrets;
and media and personality rights. Some of our key services include:
- Conducting pre-filing searches (including prior art searches and
novelty searches), freedom to operate searches, validity and infringement
searches, etc., and providing detailed reports;
- Filing and prosecuting applications till registration, maintaining registrations
and appearing before different IP fora;
- Filing/prosecuting oppositions, rectifications-cancellations and
revocations;
- Defending applications/registrations against oppositions,
rectifications-cancellations and revocations;
- Filing and prosecuting domain name complaints and defending domain
name registrations;
- Identifying potential infringers, conducting online, telephonic and
market investigations, commissioning on-site investigations and raids,
issuing take-down notices and providing detailed and strategic enforcement
advisory;
- Issuing and replying to legal notices;
- Negotiating and entering into settlements as well as obtaining
undertakings and consent letters;
- Taking actions before relevant administrative bodies;
- IP litigation and arbitration;
- Drafting IP agreements and agreements with IP clauses like
assignment deeds, licensing agreements, co-existence agreements, NDAs,
employment agreements, technology transfer agreements, co-branding
agreements, distributorship agreements, collaboration agreements,
franchising agreements, publishing agreements, etc.;
- IP valuation;
- Liaising with foreign counsels across jurisdictions; and
- IP registration with custom authorities and registration of
copyrights with Copyright Societies.