India

Firm overview

anovIP is a full-service intellectual property (IP) law firm dedicated to helping businesses and individuals protect, manage, and enforce their IP rights. With extensive experience across all areas of IP law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, and litigation, we provide tailored legal solutions to meet the unique needs of our clients. Our team of expert attorneys and professionals works closely with clients from various industries, such as technology, healthcare, biotech, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, and entertainment.

At anovIP, we understand that intellectual property is a critical asset to our clients’ success. Our approach is personalized, ensuring that we deliver strategic legal guidance and support that aligns with each client’s specific business goals. Whether it’s securing a patent, registering a trademark, or defending intellectual property rights in court, we aim to provide comprehensive, client-centered services that maximize the value of your intellectual property. Core Services includes:

1. Patent Registration: Our technically proficient attorneys help clients secure patent protection by drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications across multiple jurisdictions, including India and internationally.

2. Trademark Registration: We build strong brand portfolios by conducting trademark searches, filing applications, and handling oppositions and cancellations.

3. Copyright Registration: Our team assists in registering original works, including literary, artistic, and musical creations, to secure copyright protection.

4. Trade Secret Protection: We advise clients on trade secret management, including internal policies, employee training, and contract negotiation.

5. Licensing and Transactions: We negotiate and draft IP licensing and technology transfer agreements, providing legal support in commercializing intellectual property.

6. Intellectual Property Litigation: Our litigation team represents clients in patent, trademark, and copyright disputes, as well as trade secret misappropriation and unfair competition cases.

In addition to core IP services, anovIP offers IP portfolio management, including competitive intelligence, patentability analysis, IP audits, strategic planning, and due diligence in mergers and acquisitions. We provide customized solutions to help clients leverage their intellectual property for business growth and success.

anovIP prides itself on using cutting-edge legal technology and innovative strategies to achieve the best outcomes. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a multinational corporation, our firm is committed to protecting and maximizing the value of your intellectual property assets.

Contact us today to explore how we can support your IP objectives.

Firm overview

Fuelled with experience, expertise and energy, Beruar & Beruar focuses on offering right solutions to clients and delivers desired results with optimum speed and efficiency. Founded by Mr. Rahul Beruar and Ms. Nidhi Jain, the Firm offers a spectrum of legal services and assists domestic and international clients on contentious and non-contentious issues pertaining to commercial laws, intellectual property and technology laws inter alia. Established in January 2018, the Firm caters to a wide client base including Fortune 200 companies to start-ups. With its in-depth industry knowledge, growing team of experts and working relationships with reputed global firms, the Firm has been consistently emerging as a trusted partner of clients across varied industry sectors.
The firm advises leading companies, institutional organisations as well as government entities on a wide array of general corporate as well as intellectual property and technology related issues, ranging from commercial transactions and due diligence, projects, infrastructure and energy, regulatory as well as intellectual property and technology disputes, litigation and policy.
The firm offers following IP services:
A. IP Registration & Prosecution: Trademarks, Copyright, Design and Patents: prosecution and litigation; Trademark & Design portfolio management; Brand Management and Enforcement,
B. Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Initiating and defending civil & criminal cases before judicial and quasi-judicial fora across the country, including Supreme Court of India, Delhi High Court, State High Courts, District Courts, tribunals and commissions inter alia;
C. IP Enforcement Border enforcement of intellectual property rights and coordinating anti- counterfeiting and anti-piracy actions; co-ordinating investigations, market watch and market surveys in identifying infringing content/work and taking appropriate legal measures to curb the infringement;
D. Domain Name disputes: Initiating actions for cancellation of domain name before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as well as before the .IN Registry in India.
E. IP advisory and Consultancy: Comprehensive transaction support, including due diligence, negotiations, structuring, drafting and reviewing contractual documents;
(i) Negotiating, drafting and vetting contracts pertaining to IPR and technology transfer, licensing, assignment and brand management;
(ii) Advising clients on general corporate & commercial laws;
(iii) Assisting clients and providing regulatory and compliance support across industry sectors;
(iv) Advising clients on data transactions and data security concerns, including assistance in data localisation for cross jurisdiction compliance and regulatory compliance requests for data disclosure.

Firm overview

Established in 1989, SS Rana & Co is a full-service law firm, with its expertise spanning across diverse areas of law. The firm has been globally recognised for its outstanding legal and advisory services by reputed journals and publications such as IAM Patent 1000, Asia IP, WTR, Managing IP, IBLJ, Chambers and Partners, Legal 500. The firm is also registered as an advocate-on-record with the Supreme Court of India and is equipped to represent from the lower courts to the Apex Court of the country.

The Founding Partners of the Firm have specialization and expertise in IP litigation for almost 55 years each and have represented some of the well-known brands in cases of infringement and passing off suits all over India.

Our 2800 plus global client plus global client include several Fortune 500 corporations, Multinationals, Indian companies, Individuals, as well as grass root innovators. We work with clients across various industries such as Aviation, Automobile, Bio Medical, Pharmaceutical, Consumer Goods, Real Estate, IT & Technology, Ecommerce, Heavy Machinery, Media and Entertainment, Sports and Gaming, Electronic & Communication, Mobile Computing & IoT, Hospitality, FMCG, Luxury Goods Industry, Education etc.

The firm has been assisting in drafting, filing and prosecuting IP applications and assisting them in successfully securing their IP rights in India and globally. Apart from India, we have a strong network of qualified IP professionals and associates in countries such a Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Maldives, Mauritius, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore etc.

The Firm has assisted more than 250 start-ups in creation, protection and enforcement of their IP rights in India.

The Firm is also empanelled law firm with several Technical Universities, Design Institutes, Government & Private Institutions as well as Innovation Foundations for advising, filing & enforcing their IP rights including Patents, Trademarks, Copyright & Designs in India.
The firm’s corporate team has expertise and in-depth knowledge in all areas of corporate practise, which is combined with an astute understanding of the business and commercial agreements. The firm’s legal practices are highly acclaimed in the areas of technology laws, gaming law, commercial contracts and agreements, real estate and infrastructure, packaging and legal metrology, company law practices, dispute and conflict resolution, insolvency and bankruptcy, advertisement laws, data protection, criminal laws as well as labour and employment laws including a robust practice of POSH (Prevention against Sexual Harassment at workplace) practices.

Diversity, equality and inclusion

Since its founding, the firm is committed to diversity and inclusion (D&I) along with equity and accessibility. It is noteworthy to mention that one of our Founding Partners, Mrs. Bindra Rana has been in the legal practices since 1967. DE&I has been achieved in the firm by formulating and reworking policies to achieve trust and commitment and to promote representation from all sections, by acknowledging all contributions, appreciating our presence and taking into consideration different perspectives. This has created an environment where all are valued with equal opportunities to contribute to and influence aspects of the workplace.
Certifications

Having embraced technological advancements and changes in legal practices, the firm is one of the select few in the country to be awarded certifications, namely ISO 9001:2015 (the global standard for quality management principles) and ISO 27001:2013 (the global standard for information security management system).

The firm has also been recognised as a “Great Place to Work” in 2017 ,2023 as well as 2024, certifying a high-performance culture in an organisation. The Firm has also been recognized as India's Best Workplaces for Women (Mid-size) 2023 by the Great Place to Work® Institute (India).

The Firm has recently been bestowed with the Award of “Best Employer for Women” (Small Category) by ASSOCHAM.

Firm overview

SMCO was founded in 1993 which has since established itself as a leading Intellectual Property Firm in India, manned with professionals in diverse areas of technology starting from engineering, telecommunications, software, electronics, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and not to mention lawyers with expertise in all areas of IP, authorized to represent clients across all judicial and quasi-judicial forums.

SMCO’s patent proficiency extends to novelty searches, drafting patent specification, filing and prosecution of patent applications in India and abroad, oppositions, revocations, patent journal monitoring, interface with the inventors, patentability and infringement opinion; freedom to operate (FTO) analysis. The firm has filed the maximum number of patent oppositions both pre-grant and post-grant under the 2005 statute and the success rate is about 80%. SMCO also has a dedicated team handling design matters.

SMCO’s trademark proficiency extends to availability searches and opinion on adoption, filing and prosecution of trademark applications, trademark watch services, oppositions and rectifications, investigations and other related matters.

SMCO also efficiently handles copyright matters for its clients.

SMCO has also successfully handled several Domain dispute cases before the WIPO and the local authorities. The firm also has expertise in handling matters relating to Assignment and Licensing of IPR.

SMCO is also efficient in handling recordal and enforcement of IPR with the Customs Office.

SMCO also has a robust litigation team which is active in areas of civil suits, writ petitions and criminal actions relating to all kinds of IPR.

SMCO also successfully represents its clients in the neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Last updated 13th June 2016