Our Intellectual Property practice offers strategic and commercially-focused advice on IP rights management, protection, and enforcement, with deep expertise in cross-border IP transactions, IP diligences. Our expertise lies in advising on disruptive technology-driven IP challenges, such as IP issues involving generative AI.
Our team has advised clients with structuring, negotiation and execution of IP-focused transactions, such as licensing arrangements, technology transfers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Our team is well-versed with industry-specific IP issues in the media, entertainment, advertising, gaming, education, and FMCG spaces, amongst others.
Copyright
We advise clients on protecting, enforcing, and commercialising their copyright across a wide range of industries, including technology, media and entertainment, publishing, edtech, and consumer products.
We specialize in advising on copyright matters in emerging technologies, including generative AI, machine learning models, and other emerging technologies. Our work spans assessing ownership rights in AI-generated content, and addressing novel questions of authorship, ownership, and infringement in the context of AI tools. We have also advised businesses on copyright infringement risk mitigations while deploying AI tools.
Our work spans copyright registration, ownership structuring, and advising on complex questions around authorship, joint works, commissioned works, and employee-created IP. We routinely clients assist with commercial agreements including software development, content production, licensing, publishing, and IP assignment deals ensuring clear ownership and enforceability.
On the enforcement side, we support clients with takedown strategies, cease-and-desist notices, online piracy actions, and copyright infringement litigation. Our team has handled disputes involving unauthorised reproduction of software, video content, educational material, and music. We also advise on fair use exceptions, moral rights, and performer's rights, and increasingly, on copyright issues involving AI-generated content, derivative works, and content moderation on digital platforms.
Patent
We advise clients on the full lifecycle of patent protection from assessing patentability and conducting prior art searches to drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications before the Indian Patent Office. Our team comprises registered patent agents with technical and legal expertise. We also work closely with technical experts in various fields. We assist with both standalone Indian filings and coordinated international portfolios, helping clients develop robust and commercially-aligned patent strategies.
Beyond prosecution, we advise on patent licensing, assignments, and monetisation strategies in R&D collaborations, tech transfers, and cross-border IP transactions. We also support clients with freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis, responses to office actions, and managing oppositions and revocation proceedings.
Trademark
We advise clients across industries on end-to-end trademark protection starting from brand clearance and filing strategies to enforcement and portfolio management. Our team handles trademark filings, oppositions, rectifications, and renewals before the Indian Intellectual Property Office, and coordinates with foreign counsel on global portfolios. We help clients develop forward-looking brand protection strategies tailored to their commercial and expansion plans, including for digital-first brands, tech startups, and global consumer businesses.
Our trademark enforcement work spans cease-and-desist actions, infringement and passing off litigation, online brand abuse, and domain name disputes. We represent clients in disputes involving cybersquatting and misleading domain registrations that dilute or misuse their trademarks. We regularly advise on trademark assignments and licensing arrangements, with a strong focus on ensuring contractual quality control mechanisms to preserve brand integrity and avoid invalidation risks. Our team also supports clients in negotiating co-branding deals, franchise agreements, and brand monetisation strategies, ensuring trademark rights are secured, leveraged, and maintained across jurisdictions.