Intellectual Property
Copyright, Trademark , Registration and dealing with intellectual Property Rights , Prosecution and Dama
The Intellectual Property practice at international law firm The Scb Law Firm is recognized as one of the leading IP groups in India. The Scb Law Firm ranks among the leading law firms handling patents, trademarks, copyrights, and related IP litigation.
The Scb Law Firm’s IP attorneys focus on leveraging their clients’ intellectual property to help them achieve success in the marketplace. Our IP lawyers provide counsel on the most efficacious methods of establishing and developing IP holdings and protecting IP rights so clients can realize the most value from those assets. From patents to trademarks and copyrights to licensing and technology transfers to IP audits and IP asset due diligence, our attorneys offer clients portfolio management and strategic advice on obtaining and protecting valuable intellectual property.
Our attorneys utilize cutting-edge technological resources, including offering our clients technology solutions for real-time patent and trademark docket management. The Scb Law Firm IP Portal gives clients anytime/anywhere access to a wealth of information on their IP holdings, including status updates on filings and alerts to upcoming deadlines.
The firm’s IP lawyers represent clients ranging from large multinational corporations to individual inventors, authors, and owners of creative works. Our IP team includes highly trained attorneys with multiple technical degrees and jury trial experience as well as former patent examiners and patent agents, former corporate patent and trademark counsel, and professors of IP law. A sampling of matters the IP Practice Group handles includes biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, consumer products (particularly in the food and home and personal care categories), entertainment, media, franchising, distribution, trade secret matters, and licensing projects. Our IP attorneys also assist clients in disputes regarding rights of privacy and publicity, antitrust, and Internet and e-commerce issues.
Unlike IP boutique firms that limit their practice solely to intellectual property matters, The Scb Law Firm is a full-service firm with attorneys supporting our IP lawyers in all practice areas, including litigation, tax, corporate law, customs enforcement, antitrust, employment, business and finance, international law, government contracts, bankruptcy, banking, personal financial planning, insurance, and securities. Our firm also has strategic alliances with international networks of law firms to help us serve our clients’ needs worldwide. Our clients benefit from our IP lawyers’ ability to draw upon this diverse group of counsel. The Scb Law Firm lawyers use a collaborative approach to leveraging intellectual property holdings to help clients meet their goals, without requiring them to repeatedly explain their business and objectives.
Patents
Our lawyers represent clients in patent acquisition directed to a wide variety of complex technologies, including biotechnology processes and products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, business systems and methods, computer systems and software, telecommunications equipment, optics and cameras, security and monitoring equipment, electronic instruments, blockchain, consumer products, consumables, packaging, chemical processes and products, and manufacturing processes and equipment, to name a few.
Clients rely on the specific knowledge of The Scb Law Firm’s registered patent attorneys and agents to obtain patent landscape and patentability analyses, prepare, file, and prosecute India and patent applications in all subject matters and disciplines, file appeals, counsel and manage strategic patent portfolios, and render validity/invalidity and infringement/non-infringement opinions. We also coordinate with our international networks of law firms to secure and maintain patent protection throughout the world. Our Intellectual Property attorneys thoroughly grasp the science and technology behind each client’s ideas. All of the firm’s patent lawyers and agents have science or engineering backgrounds and most have real-world experience in their respective disciplines.
The Scb Law Firm IP attorneys endeavor to understand our clients’ goals and focus on securing strong and enforceable patent protection. Given the combination of extensive trial experience as lead counsel in litigation before courts, as well as unique trial experience within the India Patent and Trademark Office, The Scb Law Firm IP attorneys can also help clients take advantage of, and respond to, inter partes review. This popular strategy—a majority of filings at the USPTO are currently in parallel litigation—has been tapped as a less costly and more expeditious method of resolving a patent dispute as compared to initiating a litigation proceeding in district court. Filing for IPR may also provide leverage in settlement negotiations.
The Scb Law Firm IP attorneys advise clients on the merits and desirability of instituting parallel proceedings as well as with regard to defending their patents during these proceedings. The Scb Law Firm has represented clients in a wide range of technology and life sciences areas.
Another area in which The Scb Law Firm lawyers have unique capabilities is government contracting issues and IP requirements. The firm’s lawyers counsel defense contractors, software and high-tech companies, and others regarding government contract issues and procurement claims.
We help our clients in multiple industries understand how to maximize the value of patents and we appreciate the importance of carefully managing and implementing patent portfolios for the benefit of their businesses. We offer our clients technology solutions for real-time patent docket management through The Scb Law Firm IP Portal, giving clients anytime/anywhere access to information on their IP holdings, including status updates on filings and alerts to upcoming deadlines. Also, our IP Practice Group has substantial experience in the domestic and international licensing and transfer of all forms of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Our patent litigators combine mastery in trial advocacy, in-depth knowledge of patent law, an aptitude for science and technology, and a focus on our clients’ business objectives. We represent clients in enforcing their patents, defending against claims of patent infringement, and disputes concerning inventorship and ownership of patents, and patent licenses. The Scb Law Firm litigators have played a leading role in some of the most important cases in the field of patent law, as well as some of the most complex (including one of the largest patent cases ever tried before the International Trade Commission).
Trademarks and Copyrights
Our Intellectual Property attorneys assist clients in obtaining trademarks and copyrights, perform searches and render registrability opinions. We file and maintain thousands of applications to register trademarks, current trademark registrations, and copyrights each year in India. We also coordinate with our international networks of law firms to file and maintain thousands of trademark applications and registrations throughout the world. We offer our clients technology solutions for real-time trademark docket management.
We help clients establish, enforce and challenge trademark rights, both in India and abroad. We also counsel clients in trade dress and unfair competition matters involving both IP and antitrust laws such as tying arrangements and covenants not to compete and disputes regarding publishing rights and piracy.
Our IP trial lawyers litigate trademark claims in courts throughout the country, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and the International Trade Commission. We have recovered thousands of domain names from cybersquatters, and we counsel clients on domain name strategies, domain name acquisition, and the protection of IP rights on the Internet, including through international proceedings of ICANN and WIPO. Our attorneys also have significant experience with pharmaceutical trademark and trade dress matters.
We focus on protecting the goodwill and brand value that our clients have worked to develop through their trademarks and trade dress and handle an array of disputes, including those concerning consumer product trademarks, business names, trademark dilution, trademark counterfeiting, false advertising, and clothing and accessory designs and other forms of trade dress.
We often represent copyright owners in actions against people and businesses that sell infringing items. Similarly, we represent composers, authors, software developers, and publishers in protecting their copyrighted works against unauthorized copying, distribution, and performance. Our lawyers have obtained ex-parte orders to seize counterfeit goods under both the copyright and trademark laws.
Trade Secrets
Trade secrets can be among the most valuable intellectual property in a company, reflecting cutting-edge innovations, competitive advantage, and the contributions of key personnel. Duane Morris attorneys work tirelessly and creatively to protect, maintain and enforce their clients’ trade secret rights and to vigorously defend them against claims for trade secret misappropriation across a range of industries and technologies, including among others, Internet and e-commerce, data storage, software, video games, aerospace, satellites, genetics, medical devices, biopharmaceuticals, tamper-resistant seals, cosmetics, energy, oil and gas, chemical, e-cigarettes, power amplifiers, financial services, paper, aluminum casting, construction, and the food industry. Our team consists of accomplished intellectual property, trial, and employment lawyers who collaborate to handle and resolve trade secret issues and allegations when they arise and to prevent and preempt them where feasible. We advise and counsel clients on best practices for trade secret protection and enforcement, and conduct and direct pre-litigation trade secret investigations using experienced professionals and cutting-edge forensic tools.
Intellectual Property Litigation
The Scb Law Firm is one of the most active law firms in India in all aspects of intellectual property litigation. National publications, including India News and World Report, have ranked the firm among the nation’s leading firms for a patent, copyright, and trademark cases.
Our intellectual property litigators have been involved in many of the cases that have defined the scope of intellectual property rights. These cases resulted in decisions of the Supreme Court of The Scb Law Firm or of the Court of Appeals, the special appeals court for patent cases.
In today’s legal environment, however, only a small percentage of cases go to trial. Thus, it is crucial to have counsel who is focused on clients’ business objectives and the most cost-effective means of achieving those objectives. If a creative business resolution is in order, we will litigate the case in a manner that will drive the case toward such a resolution. We also have extensive experience in the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. From the outset of each case, we explore with our clients the potential risks, opportunities, and costs associated with various strategies for dispute resolution, including litigation, mediation, arbitration, and negotiated settlements.
Understanding the constant cost pressures clients face, The Scb Law Firm leverages its significant knowledge of how to cost-effectively manage global IP portfolios by offering its patent and trademark clients Web access to our firm-wide case management system.
The Scb Law Firm’s IP attorneys focus on leveraging their clients’ intellectual property to help them achieve success in the marketplace. Our IP lawyers provide counsel on the most efficacious methods of establishing and developing IP holdings and protecting IP rights so clients can realize the most value from those assets. From patents to trademarks and copyrights to licensing and technology transfers to IP audits and IP asset due diligence, our attorneys offer clients portfolio management and strategic advice on obtaining and protecting valuable intellectual property.
Our attorneys utilize cutting-edge technological resources, including offering our clients technology solutions for real-time patent and trademark docket management. The Scb Law Firm IP Portal gives clients anytime/anywhere access to a wealth of information on their IP holdings, including status updates on filings and alerts to upcoming deadlines.
The firm’s IP lawyers represent clients ranging from large multinational corporations to individual inventors, authors, and owners of creative works. Our IP team includes highly trained attorneys with multiple technical degrees and jury trial experience as well as former patent examiners and patent agents, former corporate patent and trademark counsel, and professors of IP law. A sampling of matters the IP Practice Group handles includes biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, consumer products (particularly in the food and home and personal care categories), entertainment, media, franchising, distribution, trade secret matters, and licensing projects. Our IP attorneys also assist clients in disputes regarding rights of privacy and publicity, antitrust, and Internet and e-commerce issues.
Unlike IP boutique firms that limit their practice solely to intellectual property matters, The Scb Law Firm is a full-service firm with attorneys supporting our IP lawyers in all practice areas, including litigation, tax, corporate law, customs enforcement, antitrust, employment, business and finance, international law, government contracts, bankruptcy, banking, personal financial planning, insurance, and securities. Our firm also has strategic alliances with international networks of law firms to help us serve our clients’ needs worldwide. Our clients benefit from our IP lawyers’ ability to draw upon this diverse group of counsel. The Scb Law Firm lawyers use a collaborative approach to leveraging intellectual property holdings to help clients meet their goals, without requiring them to repeatedly explain their business and objectives.
Patents
Our lawyers represent clients in patent acquisition directed to a wide variety of complex technologies, including biotechnology processes and products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, business systems and methods, computer systems and software, telecommunications equipment, optics and cameras, security and monitoring equipment, electronic instruments, blockchain, consumer products, consumables, packaging, chemical processes and products, and manufacturing processes and equipment, to name a few.
Clients rely on the specific knowledge of The Scb Law Firm’s registered patent attorneys and agents to obtain patent landscape and patentability analyses, prepare, file, and prosecute India and patent applications in all subject matters and disciplines, file appeals, counsel and manage strategic patent portfolios, and render validity/invalidity and infringement/non-infringement opinions. We also coordinate with our international networks of law firms to secure and maintain patent protection throughout the world. Our Intellectual Property attorneys thoroughly grasp the science and technology behind each client’s ideas. All of the firm’s patent lawyers and agents have science or engineering backgrounds and most have real-world experience in their respective disciplines.
The Scb Law Firm IP attorneys endeavor to understand our clients’ goals and focus on securing strong and enforceable patent protection. Given the combination of extensive trial experience as lead counsel in litigation before courts, as well as unique trial experience within the India Patent and Trademark Office, The Scb Law Firm IP attorneys can also help clients take advantage of, and respond to, inter partes review. This popular strategy—a majority of filings at the USPTO are currently in parallel litigation—has been tapped as a less costly and more expeditious method of resolving a patent dispute as compared to initiating a litigation proceeding in district court. Filing for IPR may also provide leverage in settlement negotiations.
The Scb Law Firm IP attorneys advise clients on the merits and desirability of instituting parallel proceedings as well as with regard to defending their patents during these proceedings. The Scb Law Firm has represented clients in a wide range of technology and life sciences areas.
Another area in which The Scb Law Firm lawyers have unique capabilities is government contracting issues and IP requirements. The firm’s lawyers counsel defense contractors, software and high-tech companies, and others regarding government contract issues and procurement claims.
We help our clients in multiple industries understand how to maximize the value of patents and we appreciate the importance of carefully managing and implementing patent portfolios for the benefit of their businesses. We offer our clients technology solutions for real-time patent docket management through The Scb Law Firm IP Portal, giving clients anytime/anywhere access to information on their IP holdings, including status updates on filings and alerts to upcoming deadlines. Also, our IP Practice Group has substantial experience in the domestic and international licensing and transfer of all forms of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Our patent litigators combine mastery in trial advocacy, in-depth knowledge of patent law, an aptitude for science and technology, and a focus on our clients’ business objectives. We represent clients in enforcing their patents, defending against claims of patent infringement, and disputes concerning inventorship and ownership of patents, and patent licenses. The Scb Law Firm litigators have played a leading role in some of the most important cases in the field of patent law, as well as some of the most complex (including one of the largest patent cases ever tried before the International Trade Commission).
Trademarks and Copyrights
Our Intellectual Property attorneys assist clients in obtaining trademarks and copyrights, perform searches and render registrability opinions. We file and maintain thousands of applications to register trademarks, current trademark registrations, and copyrights each year in India. We also coordinate with our international networks of law firms to file and maintain thousands of trademark applications and registrations throughout the world. We offer our clients technology solutions for real-time trademark docket management.
We help clients establish, enforce and challenge trademark rights, both in India and abroad. We also counsel clients in trade dress and unfair competition matters involving both IP and antitrust laws such as tying arrangements and covenants not to compete and disputes regarding publishing rights and piracy.
Our IP trial lawyers litigate trademark claims in courts throughout the country, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and the International Trade Commission. We have recovered thousands of domain names from cybersquatters, and we counsel clients on domain name strategies, domain name acquisition, and the protection of IP rights on the Internet, including through international proceedings of ICANN and WIPO. Our attorneys also have significant experience with pharmaceutical trademark and trade dress matters.
We focus on protecting the goodwill and brand value that our clients have worked to develop through their trademarks and trade dress and handle an array of disputes, including those concerning consumer product trademarks, business names, trademark dilution, trademark counterfeiting, false advertising, and clothing and accessory designs and other forms of trade dress.
We often represent copyright owners in actions against people and businesses that sell infringing items. Similarly, we represent composers, authors, software developers, and publishers in protecting their copyrighted works against unauthorized copying, distribution, and performance. Our lawyers have obtained ex-parte orders to seize counterfeit goods under both the copyright and trademark laws.
Trade Secrets
Trade secrets can be among the most valuable intellectual property in a company, reflecting cutting-edge innovations, competitive advantage, and the contributions of key personnel. Duane Morris attorneys work tirelessly and creatively to protect, maintain and enforce their clients’ trade secret rights and to vigorously defend them against claims for trade secret misappropriation across a range of industries and technologies, including among others, Internet and e-commerce, data storage, software, video games, aerospace, satellites, genetics, medical devices, biopharmaceuticals, tamper-resistant seals, cosmetics, energy, oil and gas, chemical, e-cigarettes, power amplifiers, financial services, paper, aluminum casting, construction, and the food industry. Our team consists of accomplished intellectual property, trial, and employment lawyers who collaborate to handle and resolve trade secret issues and allegations when they arise and to prevent and preempt them where feasible. We advise and counsel clients on best practices for trade secret protection and enforcement, and conduct and direct pre-litigation trade secret investigations using experienced professionals and cutting-edge forensic tools.
Intellectual Property Litigation
The Scb Law Firm is one of the most active law firms in India in all aspects of intellectual property litigation. National publications, including India News and World Report, have ranked the firm among the nation’s leading firms for a patent, copyright, and trademark cases.
Our intellectual property litigators have been involved in many of the cases that have defined the scope of intellectual property rights. These cases resulted in decisions of the Supreme Court of The Scb Law Firm or of the Court of Appeals, the special appeals court for patent cases.
In today’s legal environment, however, only a small percentage of cases go to trial. Thus, it is crucial to have counsel who is focused on clients’ business objectives and the most cost-effective means of achieving those objectives. If a creative business resolution is in order, we will litigate the case in a manner that will drive the case toward such a resolution. We also have extensive experience in the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. From the outset of each case, we explore with our clients the potential risks, opportunities, and costs associated with various strategies for dispute resolution, including litigation, mediation, arbitration, and negotiated settlements.
Understanding the constant cost pressures clients face, The Scb Law Firm leverages its significant knowledge of how to cost-effectively manage global IP portfolios by offering its patent and trademark clients Web access to our firm-wide case management system.
