Trademark Strategy & Filing

A trademark is the legal form of a brand's identity. This practice area covers the selection, clearance, registration, and long term maintenance of word marks, device marks, and related rights across jurisdictions.

Work in this area typically includes availability and clearance searches, filing strategy across classes and territories, prosecution before the Indian Trade Marks Registry and, through associates, before the USPTO, UKIPO, and CIPO, replies to examination reports, opposition and rectification proceedings, and renewals.

Portfolio work continues after registration. That includes watch and monitoring arrangements, recordal of assignments and licences, coexistence and consent arrangements, and enforcement correspondence where a mark is being used without authority.