CLG’s Trademark team counsels clients in structuring trademark portfolios so that their marks and the goodwill the marks symbolize can be understood and managed as a coherent, consolidated and corporate asset. Our Trademark team works closely with our litigation practice to craft litigation strategies that take into account the benefit of ‘first strike’ to get ex-parte interim orders that are crucial in Trademark infringement suits. For the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, we have developed an effective network for policing, intelligence gathering and enforcement by judicial process as well as through police and other lawful measures. In Brief, CLG’s Trademark Practice can be summarized as under:-

TM Registry Practice

Search Opinion and Consultation Services

It includes conducting computerized search & official TM search. It also includes providing opinion upon registrability of the work on the basis of searches.

TM Filing

It includes filing applications with & without convention priority, National filing of application & International filing of the TMs all over the world including but not limited to Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt, Turkey, Argentina, Malaysia, China etc

TM Prosecution with the Registry

It includes opposition, rectification, revocation/cancellation proceedings, renewal of trademark etc.

Maintenance of TM portfolio

It includes conducting regular TM watch, timely reporting about the client’s TMs and taking necessary actions such as filing for opposition of similar & identical marks, etc.
Apart from the above, our practice also includes as under:
• Trademarks Due Diligence
• Assignment & Licensing
• Trademarks passing-off and infringement investigation, action, suits for damages, rendition of accounts, delivery up etc. before courts of law
• Counterfeit goods detection and Investigation services
• Trademark Enforcement and Execution Procedures
CLG, through its affiliate/associate law firms around the world, regularly provides its professional services to its various clients across various jurisdictions.