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Trade marks, patents, copyrights and designs. Prosecution, oppositions and Section 19 proceedings before the Trade Marks Registry. Infringement suits, passing-off actions and brand-portfolio strategy.
Indian intellectual-property practice operates across four principal statutes — the Trade Marks Act, 1999, the Patents Act, 1970, the Copyright Act, 1957 and the Designs Act, 2000 — with a substantial body of judicial authority on infringement, passing off and well-known-mark protection. The firm advises on prosecution, contested proceedings, brand-portfolio strategy and enforcement.
Registration, oppositions, Section 19 proceedings, rectification and infringement.
Filing, prosecution, oppositions, revocation and patent-infringement litigation.
Registration, licensing, infringement and statutory-licensing matters.
Industrial design registration, enforcement and parallel design-copyright protection.
Trade-mark practice covers the full lifecycle: searches and clearance, filing applications across the Nice Classification, prosecution through Examination Reports, opposition and counter-statement proceedings, Section 19 withdrawal proceedings, rectification petitions and renewals. The firm has acted in contested oppositions involving multi-class portfolios.
Patent practice covers patentability assessment under Section 3, filing strategy, prosecution through First Examination Reports, pre-grant and post-grant oppositions, revocation proceedings and infringement litigation before the Commercial Courts and High Courts.
Copyright practice covers registration of original works (literary, artistic, musical, dramatic, cinematographic and sound recordings), licensing and assignment documentation, statutory-licensing proceedings under the Copyright Board, and infringement litigation.
Designs Act practice covers industrial-design registration, post-registration cancellation proceedings, infringement litigation and the parallel design-copyright protection framework that operates where a design is also an artistic work under the Copyright Act.
IP enforcement covers Anton Piller orders, John Doe orders for unidentified infringers, dynamic injunctions for online infringement, customs recordation under the IPR (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules, 2007, and criminal complaints under the relevant IP statute.