Intellectual Property

Overview

The firm is well known for its intellectual property law practice and holds a reputation for providing strategic and innovative solutions to safeguard, enforce, and monetize clients’ intellectual property assets. The firm’s intellectual property practice encompasses all aspects of intellectual property law, including the protection, management, and enforcement of trademarks, copyrights, designs, patents, and trade secrets in India and internationally. Our intellectual property resources include patent experts who are both technically and legal qualified to draft and file patent applications to protect innovative technologies and industrial applications. We offer specialized advice in both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Indicative Experience

Trademarks
  • Advising Serum Institute of India on filing, defending their trademark applications, securing registrations.
  • Advising Bharatbox DMCC on its trademark filings.
  • Advising Orhan Awatramani on his trademark filings.
  • Advising Saj Hotels Limited on its trademark filings.
  • Advising Farah Khan on her trademark filings.
  • Advising Viiking Group of Companies in its trademark filings.
  • Advising Farah Khan Fine Jewellery on its copyrigh applications India and overseas.
  • Advising Arzana Khanna Fine Jewels on its design applications.
  • Advising Farah Khan on its design applications.
  • Advised House of Gaming Private Limited for assignment of its trademark.
  • Advised and Serum Institute of India Private Limited for assignment of its trademark.
  • Advising and representing National Stock Exchange of India Limited before the Bombay High Court in a trademark infringement suit against unknown perpetrators who published and circulated content infringing NSE’s trademark and deepfake videos using the features of a senior NSE official and his AI generated likeness.
  • Advised and represented M/s. Cape of Good Films LLP before the Delhi High Court in relation to the Film ‘Ram Setu’ and successfully obtained ad-interim injunctive reliefs against several rogue websites which were preparing to infringe the copyright of the client.
  • Advised and represented Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd. in a contractual dispute with a US company in relation to claims of intellectual property theft and infringement of trade secrets. Conducted witness depositions in India in relation to suit filed against Emcure before the United States District Court for Western District of Washington, Seattle.
  • Advised and succesfully represented T-Series in a copyright infringment suit pertaining to release of the film ‘Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video’ on Netflix.
  • Advised Reliance Enterainment Studios on pre-litigation strategy for the series ‘Jubilee’ (streaming on Amazon Prime) thereby successfully mitigating legal risks and ensuring compliance with intellectual property law and regulatory frameworks.
  • Advised and represented renowned Bollywood producer Firoz Nadiadwala, in successfully resolving a protracted legal dispute with a major distribution company concerning the franchise rights of the blockbuster films ‘Welcome’ and ‘Hera Pheri’ through meticulous negotiation.
  • Adivsing and representing a Baharain based company in an international commercial arbitral dispute with an Indian conglomerate arising from the termination of a patent licensing agreement in relation to the client’s propreitary technology for dross processing.
  • Advised and represented leading artist and singer, Sonu Nigam in a suit before the Bombay High Court for infringement of his personality rights and copyright. We successfully obtained an ex-parte ad-interim order against an infringer who was violating the singer’s personality rights.

Work Highlights