Important services in the field of IPR, Patent, Trade Mark:
- Global IPR Registration Services: Filing of applications, transfers, licensing and modifications of patent, copyright, company name, trademark, and domain name.
- Licensing of IPR: including reviewing of licensing contracts, assessment on licenser and licensee, review of practice of licensed IPR, evaluation of royalties, and other relevant legal opinions.
- Consultation on IPR Transactions: including transaction planning, drafting and reviewing of contracts for technology transfer and licensing, strategy planning, negotiations and legal due diligence for IPR valuations.
- IPR Protection and Management Services: including trade secret protection and management, prevention of damage from IPR infringement through corporate restructuring and transaction rearrangement, and IPR audit, litigation services for IPR infringement.
- • IPR Taxation Planning Services: including corporate restructuring for taxation planning purposes and rearrangement of IPR transactions for taxation planning purposes.
- IPR Dispute Resolution and Litigation: providing administrative remedies, civil or criminal proceedings, securitization proceedings, accusation with Fair Trade Commission and preparation work for warning letters.
- Legal advice and all other services pertaining to IPR laws.
- Services pertaining to registration of copyright, trade mark, patent
- Drafting , filing and defending the patents, trade mark services.
- Brand Protection services for safeguarding your business interests.
- Legal services pertaining to IPR, WIPO process, filing defending of patent matters, copy right matters, trade mark matters. IPR legal advices, patenting services etc.
- Patent Attorneys: We have inhouse Indian Patent Attorneys who provide all the services related to the patent including the advice on patent matters, search of the patents and drafting and filing of the PCT applications online.
- * Trade mark attorney :Trade mark attorneys at our law firm provide the services related to all kinds of legal problems related to the trade mark which can be in form of legal advice of trade mark, trade mark protection services, trade mark litigation services to protect your trade mark.
- IPR protection services: Very important and essential services for the industrial and commercial houses for protecting the duplicity of their products, brands, trade marks, logo, patents etc which causes substantial loss to their business in various forms. You lose your quality marking and the pirates get away with profit margins.
- Collecting and compiling important information regarding violation of Trade mark, brand name and patent infringement of your products. Getting the information regarding the modus oprendi of the pirates involved with it.
- Getting the important information regarding the quantum of damage / loss being done to your goodwill and corporate image by such parties.
- Detection of the cases of violation of the Copy right, IPR, identifying the parties involved with it and suggesting remedial measures therein.
- Liaison with state and police authorities to curb the duplicity of your products, violation of your trade marks, logos, patents etc.
- Collecting and providing evidence and providing litigation services related to the IPR laws for protecting your valuable trade marks, patents, logo etc.
- Advising all the issues related to protection of the Brand, Trade Mark, Copy right, IPR. Coordinating with police to nab such cases and take up the matters with the courts and appropriate forums through our trained Indian advocate and IPR attorneys.
- All other ancillary services related to the protection of your brand, trademark, patent, IPR, copyright, logo etc which are very essential for the growth of your business.
- We provide all kinds of technical know how in IPR services, prior art searches& reporting of IPR matters. Drafting, filing and prosecuting the patent application, opposition of IPR application. All kinds of advice on patent Drafting and filing of patent applications, The IPR lawyers at our law firm provide the most accurate legal services pertaining to IPR with full confidence.
- We provide Indian Patent Attorneys, IPR Attorneys and Trade Mark lawyers for all kinds of IPR services.
OUR GLOBAL SERVICES IN THE FIELDS OF IPR:
• Global IPR Registration Services: Filing of applications, transfers, licensing and modifications of patent, copyright, company name, trademark, and domain name.
• Licensing of IPR: including reviewing of licensing contracts, assessment on licenser and licensee, review of practice of licensed IPR, evaluation of royalties, and other relevant legal opinions.
• Consultation on IPR Transactions: including transaction planning, drafting and reviewing of contracts for technology transfer and licensing, strategy planning, negotiations and legal due diligence for IPR valuations.
• IPR Protection and Management Services: including trade secret protection and management, prevention of damage from IPR infringement through corporate restructuring and transaction rearrangement, and IPR audit, litigation services for IPR infringement.
• IPR Taxation Planning Services: including corporate restructuring for taxation planning purposes and rearrangement of IPR transactions for taxation planning purposes.
• IPR Dispute Resolution and Litigation: providing administrative remedies, civil or criminal proceedings, securitization proceedings, accusation with Fair Trade Commission and preparation work for warning letters.
IPR Law:
Intellectual property rights (IPR) are all forms of commercial activities and artistic creations which are used for the commercial purposes of creating, marketing and selling a product with distinct characteristic and identity. IPR can be broadly seen under two categories Industrial properties and copyright. Industrial property includes a diversity of rights such as patents (which protect inventions), trade marks, geographical indications and designs. Copyright – or authors’ rights -protects literary and artistic works (books, plays, films, musical works, paintings, photographs, sculptures, maps etc.). Copyright also includes related or neighboring rights such as those of performers, producers of films and sound recordings, and broadcasters.
IPR provides their owners the means to decide, for a specific and limited time, how their inventions and creations are to be used, reproduced and commercialized. IPR rewards innovation and creativity and promotes the dissemination of goods and services. For many industries and sectors, well-managed intellectual property rights are a core element of their business strategy and a key factor for their global competitiveness. Products and services based on IPR can be difficult and expensive to create but cheap to replicate and reproduce. Organized and large-scale infringement of IPR has become a global phenomenon and is causing worldwide concern. Still, it is very difficult to produce exact figures, as counterfeit and pirated goods fall outside the mainstream economy.
Over the last few years, there has been an alarming expansion in the types of products being infringed. They range from luxury items such as sportswear, watches and jewellery, to more ordinary items that have an impact on personal health and safety such as pain killers, razor blades, baby milk, children’s toys and car parts. Asia emerges as the largest source for counterfeited and pirated products, with China being the largest source.
IPR Industrial property rights:
Patents
Trade marks
Geographical indications (GIs)
IPR as copyright:
Registering the right of the creator
Payment of the royalties
Creating uniform copyright code
Stricter enforcement of the copyright laws
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The Paris Convention: The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is one of the oldest intellectual property treaties in the world. The Convention mandates the signatories to recognize applications for trademarks, designs or patents from other signatory countries in the same way as it recognizes applications from its own nationals. The Convention also stipulates that, once the applicant becomes the owner of a patent, design or trademark, the owner will have the same protection and the same remedies against an infringement as a national owner. The Convention is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the UN. The Convention currently has 173 signatory countries – including all EU Member States, China and the United States.
The Berne Convention: The Berne Convention for the protection of Literary and Artistic Works is an international agreement that governs the internationalization of copyright. The Convention requires its signatories to automatically recognize the copyright of works of authors from other signatory countries in the same way as it recognizes the copyright of its own nationals. In addition, the Convention requires the signatories to provide strong minimum standards for copyright law, including on the duration of protection. The general rule is that protection must be granted until the expiration of the 50th year after the author’s death. The Convention is also administered by the WIPO and currently has 164 signatory countries – including all EU Member States, China and the United States.
The TRIPS Agreement: The 1994 Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) introduces for the first time intellectual property law, including the provisions of the Paris and the Berne Conventions, into the international trading system. It is administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and sets down minimum protection standards for a number of intellectual property rights, such as copyright, geographical indications, patents and trademarks. The Agreement also lays down certain general principles applicable to all IPR enforcement procedures and contains provisions on civil and administrative procedures, remedies and provisional measures. It also contains special requirements related to border measures and criminal procedures, which specify, in a certain amount of detail, the procedures and remedies that must be available so that right holders can effectively enforce their rights. The agreement also makes disputes between signatories about the respect of the TRIPS obligations subject to the WTO’s dispute settlement procedures. All of the 153 WTO members are members of the TRIPS agreement and includes all EU Member States, the United States and China.
The WIPO Copyright Treaty: In the light of the rise of information technology, this 1996 Treaty provides additional protection for copyright as it covers in particular on-demand, interactive communication through the Internet. It forms a special agreement under the 1886 Berne Convention and ensures that computer programmes are protected as literary works as well as the arrangement and selection of databases. The Treaty also enables authors to have control over the rental and distribution of their works, prohibits the circumvention of technological measures for the protection of works and the unauthorized modification of rights management information contained in works. It entered into force in 2002. There are 89 signatory countries, including all EU Member States, China and the United States.