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Sai & Mehta provides full-spectrum intellectual property legal counsel, including Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyrights, Domain Name Disputes, Trade Secrets, and Customs border recordals. Our practice spans initial clearance searches, filing and prosecution, oppositions, commercial transactions, and contentious litigation before Indian courts.

Under modern digitised procedures at the Indian Trade Marks Registry, an unopposed application without formal objections generally proceeds from filing to registration within 6 to 12 months. When examination objections or third-party oppositions are raised, our team drafts targeted legal responses and represents clients at official hearings to expedite registration.

Yes. We act as local India counsel for multinational enterprises, overseas counsel, and international law firms. We provide streamlined coordination for PCT national phase entries, Madrid Protocol designations, Indian trademark prosecution, anti-counterfeiting campaigns, and border enforcement with clear reporting and transparent fee schedules.

Patents can be filed as provisional or complete applications, convention applications claiming Paris Convention priority, or PCT national phase entries within 31 months of the earliest priority date. We assist with patentability searches, specification drafting, examination requests, response to First Examination Reports (FER), and representation before the Controller.

We implement proactive multi-tiered anti-counterfeiting programmes. This includes intellectual property recordals with Indian Customs to intercept fake goods at ports, physical and online market investigations, formal cease-and-desist notices, and prompt civil enforcement suits seeking ex-parte ad-interim injunctions and search-and-seizure orders.

To initiate a consultation or conflict clearance, please share the full legal names of the applicant or entity, the relevant trademark mark/logo or patent technical field, and any impending official registry deadlines. Our desk acknowledges all new inquiries promptly with next-step guidance.