Practice areas
Support for individual matters or for ongoing portfolio and workflow requirements, across trademarks, copyright, designs, patents and legal process outsourcing.
The precise scope of each engagement is agreed with the client and delivered subject to applicable law, professional rules and any required local-counsel involvement.
Trademarks
Trademark Search & Clearance Support
Preliminary and comprehensive search support to help identify identical or similar marks, review relevant records and organise findings for decision-making.
Search results are not a guarantee of registrability or freedom to use; legal assessment depends on the facts, jurisdictions and applicable law.
Trademark Filing & Prosecution Support
Assistance with preparing filing information, coordinating applications, monitoring examination and office-action deadlines, tracking application status and maintaining prosecution records in India and other jurisdictions, as instructed.
Oppositions, Cancellations & Disputes Support
Procedural and administrative support for opposition, cancellation, rectification and related matters, including docketing, evidence and document organisation, deadline monitoring and coordination with the client’s appointed counsel.
Renewals, Assignments & Recordals
Management support for renewal schedules, ownership changes, assignments, name or address changes, licences and other recordal processes, including document coordination and status tracking.
International Trademark Portfolio Management
Coordinated support for international trademark portfolios, including Madrid System-related administration where applicable, local filing coordination, portfolio reports, deadline monitoring and liaison with overseas associates.
Copyright & Designs
Copyright
Support with copyright registration processes where available, ownership and chain-of-title records, documentation, permissions, licensing materials and copyright portfolio administration.
The availability and effect of registration differ by jurisdiction and type of work.
Industrial Designs
Support with design searches, application documentation, filing coordination, prosecution tracking, renewals where applicable and design portfolio records, subject to local requirements.
Patents
Patent Administration & Filing Coordination
Administrative and workflow support for patent-related matters, including docketing, deadline tracking, document coordination and liaison with patent counsel.
Patentability opinions, drafting and prosecution will be undertaken only within the appropriate professional scope and jurisdictional requirements.
Portfolio & Commercial IP
IP Agreements & Commercialisation Support
Document and process support for IP assignments, licences, confidentiality agreements, coexistence arrangements, research or development arrangements and other IP-related commercial documents, with legal review provided where appropriately authorised.
IP Portfolio Audits & Docketing
Organisation and review of portfolio records, key dates, renewal requirements, ownership details and status information to help clients improve visibility and maintain consistent internal processes.
Legal Process Outsourcing
LPO for the United States & International
Structured legal support for law firms, in-house teams and legal service providers in the United States and other jurisdictions. Depending on the engagement, services may include legal research support, document review, contract abstraction, data extraction, document organisation, case or matter management, due-diligence support, drafting assistance and workflow administration.
Work is performed under agreed instructions, confidentiality safeguards, supervision arrangements and applicable professional and data-protection requirements.
Legal Research & Document Support
Research assistance, case and statute compilation, chronology preparation, document summarisation, citation and source organisation, and preparation of first drafts or working materials for review by the responsible lawyer.
Contract Lifecycle & Document Management Support
Assistance with contract intake, clause or data extraction, repository maintenance, version control, obligation tracking and document workflow administration, tailored to the client’s systems and protocols.
How LPO engagements work
We work with overseas clients through a clearly defined scope of work, agreed turnaround times, secure document-handling procedures, quality checks and designated points of contact.
Where a task involves the practice of law reserved to locally authorised professionals, the engagement should be structured for review or supervision by appropriately qualified counsel. We do not represent that we are authorised to practise law in every jurisdiction.
Defined scope
A clear scope of work agreed before anything begins.
Agreed turnaround
Timelines set for each task and workflow.
Secure handling
Confidentiality safeguards for every document.
Quality checks
Work reviewed before it reaches you.
One point of contact
A designated person for each engagement.
Let’s discuss your requirements
Share a brief overview of your matter, the jurisdictions involved and your preferred timeline, and we will consider the appropriate next steps.