Trademark
Your Strong Brand Deserves Stronger Legal Protection
A brand is more than a name or logo—it represents identity, reputation, and long-term business value. Sai & Mehta helps businesses, entrepreneurs, and international organizations secure, protect, and enforce trademark rights through strategic legal solutions under Indian and international trademark laws.
Trademarks & Brand Protection
We help businesses choose, clear, register, maintain, and enforce brands in India. Our trademark practice covers searches, filings, prosecution, oppositions, cancellations, renewals, assignments, licensing, domain disputes, brand watching, and enforcement against misuse or counterfeiting.
Trademark Search, Filing, and Prosecution
Our trademark services cover the complete prosecution lifecycle in India. We advise on registrability, classification, specification drafting, filing strategy, examination objections, show-cause hearings, renewals, and ownership changes.
- Pre-filing searches and clearance opinions
- National trademark applications in India
- Madrid Protocol designations into India
- Responses to examination reports
- Hearing representation
- Renewals, assignments, mergers, and recordals
- Portfolio reporting for in-house and foreign counsel
Trademark Opposition, Cancellation, and Enforcement
Trademark protection has little value unless it can be defended. We represent rights holders in oppositions, cancellations, rectifications, infringement actions, passing-off claims, and negotiated resolutions.
- Notice of opposition and counterstatement drafting
- Evidence strategy and affidavit preparation
- Rectification and cancellation actions
- Cease-and-desist notices
- Settlement and coexistence agreements
- Court actions for infringement and passing off
- Marketplace and social-media enforcement
Anti-Counterfeiting and Brand Enforcement
Counterfeiting damages reputation, revenue, consumer trust, and distribution channels. We assist rights holders in developing practical enforcement programmes in India using investigations, civil action, criminal complaints, customs recordal, and online enforcement.
- Market investigations and evidence collection
- Cease-and-desist programmes
- Civil raids and injunction support
- Criminal enforcement coordination
- Customs recordal and border measures
- E-commerce and marketplace takedowns
- Repeat-infringer monitoring and reporting
Customs Recordal and Border Protection
We assist clients in recording IP rights with Indian customs authorities to help prevent import or export of infringing goods. Customs strategy is especially valuable for global brand owners, product manufacturers, fashion businesses, electronics companies, and consumer goods businesses.
- Eligibility and document review
- Preparation and filing of customs recordal applications
- Coordination with customs authorities
- Support for detention and seizure communications
- Training and product-identification material coordination
- Renewal and maintenance of customs records