Intellectual Property

Intellectual property law is meant to protect one’s “creations of the mind.” IP laws protect the invention, the form of said invention, and the relationship between a business and a symbol. Intellectual property is a concept characterized by pieces of information that may be incorporated into tangible objects anywhere in the world as technology progresses at a rapid pace.

HDLC consists of experience Intellectual Property lawyers who provide counsel on the most efficacious methods of establishing and developing IP holdings and protecting IP rights, so clients can realize the most value from those assets. From patents to trademarks and copyrights licensing and technology transfers to IP audits and IP asset due diligence, our firm offers clients portfolio management and strategic advice on obtaining and protecting valuable intellectual property. HDLC represents clients ranging from large multinational corporations to individual inventors, authors and owners of creative works.

We also held clients establish, enforce and challenge trademark rights both nationally and internationally. Our main aim is to focus on protecting the goodwill and brand value that our clients have worked to develop through their trademarks and trade dress and handle an array of disputes, including those concerning consumer product trademarks, business name, trademark dilution, trademark counterfeiting, false advertising and clothing and accessory designs and other forms of trade dress. We often represent copyright owners in actions against people and businesses that sell infringing items. Similarly, we represent composers, authors, software developers and publishers in protecting their copyrighted works against unauthorized copy, distribution and performance.

The scope of intellectual property rights covered under our services is:

• Trademarks
• Patents
• Literary works
• Artistic works
• Trade names
• Designs
• Models
• Unfair competition
• Industrial designs
• Scientific discoveries
• Performances

We have also successfully secured the IP rights of our different valuable clients

• Defended Axact (Private) Limited in a case filed by Independent Media Corporation, wherein the Plaintiff got stay order against the use of Trade Mark “Bol” by Axact (Private) Limited for its Bol TV network. We successfully secured the aforesaid stay order vacated by the court.
• Filed various legal proceedings on behalf of several multinational companies for the enforcement of their intellectual property rights.
• Defended Pacific Pharmaceuticals Limited in suits for infringement of trademark “Wobenzyne” filed by Mucosemulsionsgesellshaft GMBH.
• Defended Highnoon Laboratories Limited in a case filed by M/s Rasco Pharma for infringement of trade mark of “Aerotec”.

Successfully a leading international cosmetic brand for breach of their registered trade mark by the local manufactures of beauty creams.