Intellectual Property

ANA Law Group has a distinguished intellectual property practice and represents a niche clientele. The Firm’s IP clients include top multinational corporations including a large number of pharmaceutical companies, universities and educational institutions, etc. The Firm manages the trade mark portfolios for prestigious and valuable brands across India and the nearby Asian countries. The Firm’s IP team comprises of Indian and internationally qualified and experienced attorneys and former senior officials of Indian IP Offices who have vast statutory and practical knowledge and exposure in all areas of IP laws. The solution-driven pragmatic IP advice coupled with speed, consistency, quality and ability to deliver under pressure are the unique attributes of the Firm’s IP practice.

The practice consists of searches and clearance opinions, trade mark prosecution, oppositions, trade mark litigations and also a variety of counseling and other assistance on brand building and brand management in India. We assist many international clients on border protection registrations with the customs authorities in India.

We also assist clients in filing and prosecuting patent applications, obtaining design registrations, geographical indication (GI) registrations, and on all aspects of intellectual property.

We handle intellectual property litigation across different Indian cities and have been extremely efficient in litigation management, right from selecting the most suitable attorneys and in ensuring that the hearing of the cases do not get delayed for trivial reasons. Further, we have an excellent network of lawyers in all the Indian cities, which adds to our litigation practice’s efficiency. We provide personalized attention to the clients and unlike many other competitors, we do not believe in driving volumes which compromises quality.

We handle trade mark work in India and in the neighboring countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Myanmar, etc., through our local associates.

Additionally, our team has significant experience in franchising / licensing matters. We have done several of such transactions (pure technology, trade mark, franchise, etc.) for numerous clients across a variety of industries. As we are a full-service law firm, we bring significant value to such transactions because our corporate and regulatory team provides assistance in the exchange control and other legal issues also with respect of such transactions.

The specialties of our intellectual property law practice, which makes us different are:

• We deliver high quality services in a timely manner across various IP practice areas in the Firm, and benchmark ourselves as an international quality law firm. Many of our attorneys have international experience. Although not in size, based on the quality of our services, we would be one of the best law firms in the country.
• We do not treat intellectual property law practice as a process.
• We assess each instruction received in a holistic manner, and advice our clients considering the commercial and legal aspects.
• We provide the first response and the subsequent responses at the same speed.
• We provide partner level attention to the matters we handle and do not let paralegals handle everything.
• Our intellectual property practice team includes associates with international education and experience, former senior employees of the intellectual property offices, and associates recruited from the premium law schools in India.
• Our intellectual property practice is highly result-oriented and not a file and forget practice. This is very relevant as the intellectual property registration offices suffer from significant backlog and delay.
• We distinguish ourselves from our competitors in the intellectual property practice, based on the eye for detail on every aspect of a client assignment, the efficiency and the holistic nature of the services rendered in a manner to assist the client’s commercial requirements.