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Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP is a full-service Intellectual Property and Technology law firm focused on rendering business friendly legal advice. The firm was formed in 1992 and merged with a law practice set up in 1956. Ever since, the firm has been navigating complex intellectual property and techno-legal issues for its diverse client base. To keep pace with the growth of its business and be ever present for its clients, the firm has about 170 people spread across offices in the



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Managing Intellectual Property

Ranked Firm - Patent and Trademark Prosecution

Managing Intellectual Property

PCT Leaders: Leading Firm

Asian Legal Business

ALB Ranked Firm

India Business Law Journal

Award Winning Law Firm 2020

AsiaLaw

Ranked Highly Recommended Firm

Chambers Asia-Pacific APAC Insider Legal Awards

Best IP Litigation and Law Firm

IAM Patent

‘Recommended Firm’ for Litigation, Transactions and Prosecution

WTR 1000

‘Recommended Firm’ for Enforcement, Litigation, Prosecution and Strategy

Global Law Experts Annual Awards

Trade Mark Prosecution Attorneys of the Year in India

Leading Adviser Awards – AI Global

Intellectual Property Litigation Law Firm of the Year, India

Corporate Intl Global Awards

Trade Mark Prosecution Attorneys of the Year in India

Legal 500 Asia Pacific

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Legal 500

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Managing IP Stars

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Tier 2

Media Law International

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WTR 1000

Recommended Firm

Chambers and Partners

Leading Firm

FORBES INDIA LEGAL POWERLIST 2020

Top Law Firm

GLE Handbook 2022 - Recommended Expert

GLE Handbook 2022 - Recommended Expert

GLE Handbook 2022 - Recommended Firm

GLE Handbook 2022 - Recommended Firm

  • Patent
  • Trademark
  • Design
  • Copyright
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Transactions
  • Anti-Counterfeiting
  • Trade Secrets & Confidential Information
  • Healthcare & Life Science Regulatory
  • Data Protection
  • Anti-Trust & Competition Law
  • Plant Variety
  • Geographical Indications
  • Semiconductor Design
  • Sports Law
  • Fashion & Luxury Law
  • Media & Entertainment Law
  • Information Technology Law

Practice Areas

Patent

Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP offers a complete range of services for harnessing, protecting and monetizing inventions and innovations through the patent system. Our team of patent attorneys and patent agents hold advanced degrees in different engineering and scientific disciplines and are collectively competent to advise on all types of technologies. Some of our team members have also spent years in research and product development, which helps provide a very industry-specific

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Trademark

Attorneys at Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP recognize the importance that trademarks can play as valuable assets in day to day business transactions. Our approach to trademark protection, litigation and advisory matters is holistic and tactical, backed by a deep understanding of the underlying commercial intent, to achieve the best possible outcome for our client. We offer business friendly solutions to our clients enabling them to vigilantly protect and enforce the rights associated

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Design

Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP provides comprehensive advice on industrial design protection, enforcement and monetization. Our design team consists of attorneys who have acquired enormous experience in identifying new and original designs, drafting and filing domestic and convention design applications, successfully prosecuting them at the Patent & Designs Office, and obtaining enforceable registrations. This team is adequately supported by competent paralegal staff that

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Copyright

The world has progressed from an agricultural and industrial economy to a knowledge driven economy within a span of a century. With the advent of technology, the intellectual spectrum is expanding due to the emergence of new competitive markets as well as the limitless territory that the internet provides. This economy has created innumerable forms of copyrightable material and today, numerous technologies also fall within the purview of copyright. Copyright covers literary works (including

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Dispute Resolution

Our core expertise lies in resolving complex intellectual property and related commercial disputes. For several decades, our large and enormously experienced team has obtained best in class results for our clients in a creative and innovative manner. Our approach to each case is bespoke and crafted in close consideration of our client’s commercial needs. We always keep the bigger picture in mind, and devise solutions that are culturally acceptable and workable for our clients. Our team

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Transactions

Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP has a dedicated team that has years of experience in representing clients on different kinds of commercial and IP transactions that have a transformative impact on their operations. Our attorneys have advised domestic and international companies, small and medium enterprises, start-ups, investment firms, investors, financial institutions, international law firms and entrepreneurs. Our work has involved conducting due diligence, negotiating key deal

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Anti-Counterfeiting

The growth in technology and liberalization in the country over the past couple of years has resulted in an increase in the sale of counterfeit products across the globe. This is a big problem in India and results in illegal commercial exploitation of someone else’s intellectual property. One of the major services provided by Krishna and Saurastri Associates LLP includes tackling of counterfeits from different industries by availing both civil and criminal remedies (where

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Trade Secrets & Confidential Information

Protection of trade secrets is key to retaining a competitive edge in several industries including food and beverages, consumer goods, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, textiles, heavy engineering, and high technology. Although trade secrets are very important, they can be very difficult to define and protect. To further complicate matters, India has no statutory framework for governing trade secret issues. To assist clients, our trade secrets practice group focuses on various

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Healthcare & Life Science Regulatory

India has traditionally been an important market in the healthcare and life sciences space. Both products and services in this area have seen major growth over the years. Although, India offers a unique value proposition to a manufacturer, distributor or service provider in this industry, the regulatory and compliance framework can be daunting unless navigated with complete knowledge. Moreover, as the Indian market matures, to ensure compliance companies need to be up to speed with the evolving

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Data Protection

With the constant increase in collection, access and use of data by companies from their employees and customers, new legal and regulatory challenges related to data privacy and breaches have emerged and continue to do so. Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP employs lawyers who have handled several complex issues in this area and have years of experience counseling companies of all sizes from all different sectors. Our advice has involved compliance with collection, use and disclosure of

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Anti-Trust & Competition Law

Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP has used its techno-legal capabilities to navigate competition law issues for large and medium sized companies including merger control, anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant positions, intersection of IP and competition law issues, CCI inquiries and investigations, and regulatory compliance. Our litigators have represented both complainants and respondents before the CCI, NCLAT and different Courts in India on competition law disputes. Our

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Plant Variety

India has adopted a sui generis system for protection of plant varieties as Plant Breeder’s Rights (PBRs) under the Plant Variety Protection and Farmer’s Rights Act, 2001. Given the unique complexity of the rights to be protected under this system, clients have come to rely upon our firm’s focused experts who have cross domain knowledge and experience in this area. In fact, our firm is one of very few in India who handles such matters. Our advice has included providing

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Geographical Indications

Geographical Indications or GIs are signs that designate the origins of goods from a particular geographical location. Generally, GIs are obtained for agricultural products, food stuffs, wine, spirits, artisanal products, handicrafts, and so on. Some famous examples are the Darjeeling Tea, Banaras Saree, Champagne, and several others. India is one among a short list of countries, that has GIs in abundance. Accordingly, to regulate GIs India introduced a special legislation viz. the under the

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Practice Areas

Semiconductor Design

Integrated Circuits (ICs) form an integral part of all electronic devices. The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Design Act (SICLD), 2000, was introduced to provide legal protection to layouts of ICs. Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP has a team of experts who have valuable experience in electronics, chip designing, testing and manufacturing of ICs, IC packaging, fabrication, and IC designing. As such, our team is adept in handling all issues related to protection of IC layouts

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Sports Law

The sport sector is not limited to just the games. It includes sporting goods and equipment companies, broadcasters, leagues, teams, governing bodies, athletes, commentators, video game developers, online and mobile application game developers, sporting venue and stadiums etc. Some of Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP’s major clientele include individuals who play, promote or engage in cricket, football, soccer, tennis, basketball, baseball, golf, volleyball, cycling, wrestling,

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Fashion & Luxury Law

With the growth of the economy and increase in spending power, India has become a very important market for fashion houses and luxury goods manufacturers. Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP is proud to represent some of the most recognizable brands in the world who market clothing (haute couture, luxury, affordable luxury, mass prestige labels), footwear, leather goods, unstitched textiles (wool, linen, cotton, silk, polyester), neckwear, fragrances (perfumes and colognes), grooming

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Media & Entertainment Law

Over the last decade there has been a robust growth in the media and entertainment sector in India. The paradigm shift in advertising, media and entertainment sphere characterized with unprecedented advancements such as rapid growth in technological know-how, has necessitated the need for solution–oriented well-structured legal advice. Krishna and Saurastri Associates LLP works alongside its clients in the media and entertainment industry to provide strategic solutions within the legal

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Information Technology Law

The complex legal issues relating to Information Technology (IT) and Cyberspace require careful handling. The experienced attorneys at Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP have counseled and provided valuable assistance to leading e-commerce providers, IT consulting firms, BPOs, KPOs, ISPs, Telecom operators and other related entities. More specifically, we provide comprehensive advice on data protection, online privacy, telecommunication regulations, e-commerce, internet intermediary

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Our People

KSA's lawyers provide legal advice across all major industries and sectors. We have been ranked among the top tier Indian IP law firms consistently by leading domestic and international legal publications.

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News

Mon, 05 Apr 2021

APPELLATE BOARD/TRIBUNAL NO MORE

On April 04, 2021, the Government of India through the Ministry of Law and Justice published The

Mon, 05 Apr 2021

INDIA NOTIFIES COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) RULES, 2021

The amendments to Copyright Rules 2013 have been notified by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry,

Thu, 25 Mar 2021

IPO TO COMPUTE LIMITATION PERIOD IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUPREME COURT ORDER

The Office of the Controller General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks on 24th March, 2021 issued

Publications

Thu, 22 Dec 2022

L’oreal’s trade mark Hair Spa held to be prima facie descriptive

In Pornsricharoenpun Co Ltd & Anr v. L’oreal India Pvt Ltd & Anr, the IP Division of the Delhi High Court, while sitting in appeal, held that L’oreal’s mark HAIR SPA is descriptive, common to

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Thu, 08 Dec 2022

IP Rights Over Pre-Litigation Mediation – Key to Bolt’s Win

In a recent judgment, the Hon’ble Delhi High Court while hearing Bolt Technology OU. vs. Ujoy Technology Private Limited & Anr., clarified the contours of Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act

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Fri, 11 Nov 2022

Shikara row to Makhana GI tags - long journey ahead?

Geographical Indication are undoubtedly one of the most crucial assets which afford importance and reputation to the country of origin and help in protecting products traditionally originating from

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