Patents, Design and Plant Varieties

K&S Partners was the pioneer in building a practice focused on specific technology and science disciplines in India. Some of the significant areas of technology where K&S Partners has dedicated resources include Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Crystallography, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Plant Genetics, Plant, Natural Products, Molecular Science, Organic Chemistry, Polymer Technology, Nanotechnology, Software, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Semiconductors, Telecommunications and Integrated Circuits.

The services rendered by K&S Partners patents team extend to rendering freedom to operate, invalidity opinions, conducting prior art searches, providing due diligence, drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications, patent litigation and licensing. The team is equipped to handle complex patent litigation and all aspects of contentious matters including oppositions, invalidity actions, revocations, opinions regarding validity and infringement.

Trademark, Copyright & Geographical Indications

The modern concept of brands encompasses trade marks, trade names, corporate names, domain names and geographical indications. Keeping pace with these changing times, K&S Partners advises its clients on these broader concepts of brand protection. While trade marks and domain name protection is a major part of its practice, a niche area of practice is that of geographical indications.

K&S Partners is one of the few firms in India that focuses on this highly specialized area and takes pride in representing in India and overseas some of the most well known International Geographical Indications. The firm has extensive experience and expertise in the area of border enforcement of trade mark rights and represents the interests of several overseas clients in this area. K&S Partners also advises on copyrights in the areas of software, motion pictures, literary and artistic works, photographs and musical works both in the physical and digital contexts.

The practice in the areas of trade marks, domain names, geographical indications and copyright as described above includes filing and prosecution of registrations and enforcement before courts and tribunals, advisory and transactional work. Read More

Patent Litigation and Ip Litigation

The Patent Litigation and Ip Litigation team provides high quality and reliable solutions for patents, designs and plant variety litigation to both international as well as domestic clients.

The team has handled several IP litigations successfully in India and is specialized and equipped in handling complex patents, designs & plant variety litigations and all aspects of contentious matters including oppositions, invalidation actions and revocations. Currently, the Patent Litigation team is involved in several litigation matters in the High Courts at New Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Chennai.

As a standard operating procedure for any litigation matter, we form a virtual team which includes not only our litigators but also patent attorney (s) from the patent prosecution team with the relevant domain expertise. For any contentious matter, depending upon the field of technology involved, we bring on board one or more patent attorneys from that technology practice area.