S Majumdar & Co

Principal/Managing Partner: Mr Subhatosh Majumdar

Total number of professionals:53

Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil

S. Majumdar & Co. was founded in 1993 and 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, qualified to represent clients across all judicial and quasi-judicial forums.

The firm has represented in a large number of patent oppositions and has been mostly successful in such proceedings. S. Majumdar & Co. has successfully handled several domain dispute cases before the WIPO and the local authorities. The firm has independent functional offices at strategic locations like Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai with services extending to all other foreign countries.

Intellectual Property Rights Protection in areas including:

·Patents

·Trademarks

·Designs

·Domain Names

·Copyright

·Geographical Indications

·Litigation

·Customs Enforcement

·Plant Variety Protection

Services in Areas of Practice:

Patents:

■ Drafting of provisional and complete specifications (Ordinary/PCT/Convention applications)

■ Filing and prosecution of applications outside India through local attorneys (including Attending to the technical objections raised by foreign Patent offices)

■ Maintenance of Patents (post registration services)

■ Oppositions and invalidation

■ Searches and opinions including patentability, invalidity and infringement/ freedom to operate (FTO) searches

■ Patent analytics including landscape studies, competitive intelligence, patent portfolio analytics

■ Licensing and assignment agreements, due diligence and all other related activities

Trademarks:

■ Searches

■ Filing and prosecution of applications (including Madrid route)

■ Monitoring Trademark Journals

■ Infringement and validity opinions

■ Opposition proceedings, rectification and cancellation proceedings

■ Civil and criminal suits based on infringement action and passing off

■ Post registration services (renewals)

■ Registered user agreement

■ Licensing, assignment, transmission and franchise agreements, due diligence and investigations

Designs:

■ Searches including novelty searches and infringement/ freedom to operate (FTO) searches

■ Filing and prosecution

■ Registration and post registration services

■ Cancellation proceedings

■ Infringement suits

■ Assignment and licensing agreements

■ Due diligence

Copyright:

■ Filing, prosecution and registration

■ Cancellations proceedings

■ Infringement actions under the civil and criminal law

■ Assignment and licensing agreements

Geographical Indications:

■ Filing and prosecution

■ Opposition and cancellation proceedings

■ Infringement actions

Litigation:

■ Litigation involving IP rights across all forums

■ Conducting pre-litigation investigations

Domain Names:

■ Dispute resolution before the WIPO Arbitration Centre, .IN Registry and other forum

Customs Enforcement:

■ Recordal of IP rights before the customs office

■ Enforcement of IP rights before the customs office

Plant Variety Protection:

■ Filing and prosecution of applications

■ Oppositions

■ Post Registration

■ Filing and prosecuting National phase entry (through associates) in all PCT designated states

■ Dispute resolution before the WIPO Arbitration Centre

■ Filing and prosecution of TM application in all countries through associates

■ Filing and prosecution of TM application through Madrid

Contact:

Name: Amrita Majumdar

Tel: +91 33 2455 7484/85/86

Email: [email protected]