Intellectual Property Advisory Service

A client's most valuable property often includes its intellectual property rights such as trademark, patents, designs and copyright. Intellectual property rights confer on a beneficial owner or a licensee an edge over competitors and help in identifying and stamping out counterfeits. Our active intellectual property group possesses the expertise and experience necessary to establish, maintain and protect intellectual property rights. Our practice in this area includes:

•Performance of searches and advising on the patentability of inventions and the availability for use and registration of trademarks.

•Registration of trademarks and patents.

•Acquisition, transfer, assignment and licensing of intellectual property rights.

•Administrative proceedings such as opposition, cancellations and concurrent use.

•Policing and monitoring of patents, trade names and domain names.

•Enforcement of intellectual property rights and stamping out of counterfeits through litigation, seizure orders and forced sales.

•Advice on, prosecution and defence of allegations of intellectual property right infringements.

•Intellectual property audits for evaluation of and ensuring clients' rights in and ownership of intellectual property.

We represent corporations, multinationals and firms in diverse industries such as automobiles, fashion & cosmetics, software, computer hardware, entertainment and information, food, drugs and beverages, medical devices, public utilities, finance and insurance.