Intellectual Property Rights

We have particular expertise in complex IPR litigation and also provide a full IP service in the areas of patents, trademarks, copyright, design, branding, trade secrets and unfair competition.

We act for financial, commercial and industrial clients in communications, software, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, broadcasting and entertainment, publishing, mechanical engineering, energy, consumer products and financial and banking services.

We deal with the structure, ownership and management of IP rights with a view to exploiting their commercial value. We draft assignments and licenses of design rights, copyright and trademarks to realize that value.

We also deal with patent and technology licensing and patent clearance advice as well as the drafting of confidentiality agreements.

We cover all forms of IP disputes including:

  • Copyright disputes like securing copyright for their works and drafting agreementsrelated to the transfer of such rights, while considering both Contract Law and the Copyright Law.
  • Design right infringements.
  • Trademark disputes and passing off.
  • Domain name disputes such as Cybersquatting, Typo-squatting, Domain Name Warehousing, parking of domain names and further related issues.
  • Classifying products as patent and/or copyright intellectual property, or as a trade secret, conducting trademark, patent and copyright searches, counselling on ways to design products around existing patents to avoid infringement.
  • Pitfalls associated with premature publication or disclosure of their ideas or inventions.
  • Applying for registration of trademarks, follow up, prosecuting registration applications in respect of copyrights, designs, trademarks and patents.
  • Defending (for and against) trademark and patent infringement claims including cease and desist, reply notices, handling all types of litigation both civil and criminal before the Courts for Infringement Suits and Criminal remedies for infringement.
  • Determining whether an invention is indeed new and patentable (patentability), drafting patent specifications relating to a wide array of technologies, and filing for national and international patent registration.

Our IP litigators offer the full range of dispute resolution services from High Court and Supreme Court proceedings through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.