As the global economy shrinks and cross-border trade barriers get reduced, protection of intellectual property has assumed significant proportions. Our lawyers have always understood this. Our IP team is fully equipped in dealing with all kinds of issues, whether its traditional activity involving simple registrations of any intellectual property under the various IP legislations, conducting litigations to contest violations, or drafting complex agreements for use of trade marks in order to protect the proprietary rights of our clients. Additionally, the collective experience of our team enables us to advise clients on the nature and extent of enforcement of licenses and the rights and remedies available under the license. We also negotiate and draft agreements involving the sale of goods and services where manufacture, distribution, marketing and sale is protected by intellectual property law.
Our lawyers experience includes :
- Representations of publishing company in a large number of successful publishing ventures including those involving companies and organisations like UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank, WWF, Airtel, BIOCON Foundation, IIFT, IIT-Delhi, IIM-Calcutta, and Delhi University;
- Applying for and dealing with challenges while securing trademark registrations;
- Devising and successfully implementing anti-piracy strategies for clients;
- Representations of internet based companies in domain name disputes;
- Advising one of India's leading media groups on copyright issues arising out of internet transmission of music and sound recordings;
- Representing one of India’s leading newspaper groups in cyber-squatting of its internet domain name, and, in this context, initiated and successfully concluded proceedings before the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva and evicted the US-based cyber-squatter from the site within a short span of six weeks;
- Advising a leading international publisher on all compliance-related issues involving publication of periodicals; drafted and negotiated the journal publication agreement with the copyright owner;
- Representing Indian publishing companies before various regulatory authorities including the Registrar of Newspapers, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, the Delhi Police Licensing Branch, and the Foreign Investment Promotion Board;
- Successfully devising and implementing a leading international publisher’s action plan to curb piracy; got raids conducted in various cities all over the country resulting in the arrest of many copyright infringers and seizure of large stocks of pirated books;
- Assisting India's foremost painter and architect in a copyright infringement matter involving forgery and sale of his paintings;
- Advising a prominent foreign bank on a trademark infringement and passing-off matter;
- Counseling a technology company on copyright matters including drafting copyright licence agreement with the world’s leading publisher of encyclopedias and educational materials;
- Representing and advising clients involving wrongful registration of corporate name by other corporations;
- Drafting trademark user agreements and copyright licence agreements for a number of Indian and foreign companies.
