S.S. Rana & Co

Firm Overview:
S.S. Rana & Co. is a full-service law firm with a focused IP rights practice, with its corporate office in New Delhi and associate offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Noida and Kolkata. The firm is dedicated to its vision of proactively assisting its Indian and Fortune 500 clients worldwide, as well as grassroots innovators, with the highest quality of legal services.

The firm was established in 1989 and is one of the leading law firms in the area of IP rights in India. With a dedicated team of over 170 professionals and staff, for more than three decades the firm has been representing many Fortune 500 companies in the areas of trademarks. patents, copyright, designs, domain names, IP licensing, IP audit searches, anti-counterfeiting, enforcement, litigation and corporate laws, anticipating their business requirements and offering proactive, timely and qualitative solutions. It is also one of the few firms in India which is a single point of contact for the SAARC region.

The firm has 8 partners, assisted by a team of Managing Associates and Senior Associates and a total strength of over 50 attorneys and 20 patent professionals. The firm’s IP professionals comprise experienced and qualified advocates, patent attorneys, patent agents and engineers from technical fields such as electronics and communication, IT, biotechnology, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, automotive and mechanical engineering, as well as the applied sciences industry.

The firm provides legal advice across various industry domains including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, consumer goods, real estate, technology, banking, e-commerce, heavy machinery, media and entertainment, aviation, sports and gaming, and represents clients in all aspects of IP prosecution, enforcement, litigation, licensing and transaction matters in India, the SAARC region and worldwide.

The firm manages a portfolio of several thousand trademarks, patents and designs, both in India and the SAARC region, and globally assists over 800 clients across 100-plus countries. The founding partners of the firm, with combined experience of over 100 years of specialisation and expertise in IP litigation, have represented the world’s leading brands in several IP infringements and passing-off suits in India. Every client benefits equally from the firm’s knowledge pool and its expertise, and can be assured of high-quality legal advice and service.

The firm carries out legal research and provides thought leadership through its brainstorming sessions, which regularly discuss and deliberate various current legal topics and problems, as well as publishing legal research papers and publications.

The firm’s value proposition of being proactive and customer centric, offering quality assurance and being committed to maintaining and delivering cutting-edge legal services in an ethical and professional manner is supported by its various quality certifications, namely ISO 9001:2015 (the global standard for quality management principles) and ISO 27001:2013 (the global standard for information security management system).

Practice Areas:
· Searching, drafting, filing, prosecuting, renewing and maintaining trademark, patent, design, copyright and geographical indication applications
· Patent drafting, patentability searches (freedom to operate, prior art, landscape), pre and post-grant opposition, rectification and invalidation
· Brand protection, watch, enforcement actions, border measures, IP audits, licensing, franchising, acquisitions
· Cancellations, recovery and acquisition of domain names (actions through the .IN Dispute Resolution Policy and UDRP)
· IP enforcement actions, civil and criminal raids, custom and border seizures, commercial litigation, alternate dispute resolution, banking and insolvency, insurance and consumer matters, legal metrology (packaging and labelling) and food safety, service matters, real estate, construction and energy disputes
· Company law and compliance, labour and employment law, information technology (cyber security, data privacy, etc), environmental law, competition law, policy framing, dispute management, business licences (BSI, ISI, FSSAI, health), contract and negotiations, gaming law, e-commerce, food law, consumer law, taxation, banking, foreign direct investment, M&As

Awards and Accolades:
·WTR 1000 Recommended Firm for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021
·Managing Intellectual Property’World IP Survey 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020 – IP Star
·Chambers Asia Pacific 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 – Leading Firm
·The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020 – Leading Firm
·IAM Patent 1000- Recommended Firm- 2020 and 2021 Edition
·‘Excellent Contribution in the Field of Patents’ by Social Talks – SS Rana & Co, 2020
·‘Excellent Leadership in the Field of Patents’ by Social Talks – Vikrant Rana, 2020
·India Business Law Journal’s A Star List – Leading Individual – Vikrant Rana, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021
·‘IP Gems of India 2019’ and ‘IP Excellence in India 2019’ at the Questel IP Executive Summit – awarded to Vikrant Rana and SS Rana & Co, 2019
· Kaizen Competition Award, 2019 in Service Sector Organisation by Confederation of Indian Industry – SS Rana & Co