The team understands how intellectual property (“IP”) assets can best be created, valued, rights therein protected, and used or acquired to produce a competitive advantage. The team provides advice and assistance to its clients with respect to due diligence (routinely uncovering issues in chain of title, encumbrances, obligations, or enforcement/prosecution deficiencies often left undetected), IP valuation, acquisition, and related agreements and partnerships or joint ventures with an aim to transfer, share, or develop IP assets.

The team advises and assists clients on:

• Protection and prosecution of IP rights (including patents, trademarks, design rights, copyrights, geographical indications, domain names, proprietary know-how, and business processes)
• IP due diligence and audits
• IP valuation
• IP acquisition and transfer and related agreements
• Drafting and negotiating license agreements, assignment deeds, IP development agreements, etc.
• Representing clients before various authorities, courts, and forums on issues relating to registration and protection of IP rights.