India

Aditya & Associates is a specialty IP firm based in Mumbai led by the noted Vipul Bhuta, who serves as managing partner and leads the IP practice. The firm has worked extensively on a new patent relating to textile products with herbal composition that renders the fabrics insect-repellent without affecting its basic characteristics. It has also advised on a novel concept to making an engine run by outside air without fuel. 

ADP Law Offices opened in early 2025 after Ameet Datta left his former firm, Saikrishna & Associates. Datta, who serves as founder and managing counsel of the new firm, brings nearly three decades of extensive legal experience in the fields of intellectual property, technology, media and entertainment law. He is also noted for his work in data protection, technology, artificial intelligence, film, music, television, digital publishing, electronics, telecommunications, advertising and consumer law. Datta is engaged in policy advocacy and reform, having played a pivotal role in the development of India’s copyright laws; he advises industry groups spanning the film, music, news publishing and technology sectors on policy reform proposals. 

Ahlawat & Associates (A&A) is a member of Globalaw, which gives the firm a global network. Managing partner Uday Singh Ahlawat focusses on commercial and corporate work, including technology transfer and IT/ITES matters. Gaurav Bhalla heads the IP, technology, online gaming and data protection practice areas. His clientele includes startups, MSMEs, large multinationals including Fortune 500 companies, foreign law firms, individuals, among others. One of them is Dixon Technologies (India), a frontrunner in India’s electronic manufacturing industry. A&A assisted the company in a matter involving the unauthorized use of its brand/corporate name DIXON by an infringing UK-based entity, through the incorporation and use thereof as part of the domain name of the infringing entity. The team assisted the client in the prompt preparation and service of a legal notice to the infringing entity. The firm was named licensing and franchising firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Aishani Partners is an IP boutique handling trademarks and copyrights, designs and patents, data and privacy and IP litigation, as well as international IP portfolio management and commercial legal matters. The firm is led by managing partner Aditi Verma Thakur, formerly of Ediplis Counsels, and senior partner Vikram Pratap Singh, whose work centres on helping high-value startups and inventors convert technology and brand vision into defensible IP. The firm was named Bengaluru firm of the year and licensing and franchising firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

New Delhi-based ALG India Law Offices is a dynamic, mid-sized intellectual property law firm which works with clients of all sizes; it has been entrusted with IP portfolios of several large multinationals. Managing partner Sheja Ehtesham runs the firm’s trademarks and IP strategy practice, while partners Ashwani Balayan and Aparna Sreedhar handle the patent and IP transactions practices, respectively. The firm’s acronym stands for advocacy, logic and gnosis – gnosis referring to a type of mystical or spiritual knowledge. 

ALMT Legal is a full-service law firm with 23 partners and more than 80 lawyers in offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru. Senior partner Rakesh Prabu in Bengaluru has advised many start-up companies in developing and managing their IP portfolios. His main areas of interest are patents, cyber law, licensing and negotiation, IP enforcement and IP litigation.  

Chennai-based boutique IP firm Altacit Global has acted for Rane, a manufacturer of amplifiers and other audio processing equipment, before the IPAB, and in oppositions in support of Officer’s Choice, an Indian whisky brand owned by Allied Blenders & Distillers. The firm makes the following IP services available to its diverse roster of clientele: IP protection for patents, design, trademark, copyright, utility models and geographical indications; advisory; litigation, and; development services namely IP valuation, IP searching, registration, training; and due diligence and commercial reporting. Key team members of the firm include Sudhir Ravindran, who is also an angel investor with The Chennai Angels. 

ANA Law Group, also known as Anoop Narayanan & Associates, is a Mumbai-based full-service law firm with a strong IP and IP-adjacent practice areas, including data privacy, franchising and licensing, gaming, outsourcing, pharmaceuticals and clinical trials, retail and distribution, TMT and social media. 

Anand and Anand is one of India’s top IP firms, housing more than 200 professionals led by managing partner Pravin Anand, who was the recipient of the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) prestigious 2021 President’s Award. Senior partners Safir Anand, Archana Shanker and Vaishali R. Mittal are all excellent lawyers. Clients include Mars, Microsoft, Toyota, Louis Vuitton and Pioneer. Recently, the firm became the first to flag off corporate governance issues in an IP dispute between Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels and Lodha Developers; successfully obtained registration of a moving trademark for a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer and of a shape mark for an American biopharma company; instrumental in registering exclusivity of various Geographical Indications pertaining to textiles; and working with many homegrown unicorns including Nykaa, Flipkart, Hike, Pine Labs and Freshworks. Anand and Anand also represented Novartis in a pre-grant opposition of its patent application by Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance due to lack of inventive step, non-patentable subject matter, insufficiency of disclosure and non-compliance of Section 8 of the Patents Act. The opponent relied on six prior art documents for the ground of lack of inventive step. Novartis was able to uphold the validity of its patent application and eventually obtained the patent grant. The firm was named trademark firm of the year for India at the 2025 Asia IP Awards and won multiple awards at Asia IP’s 2025 India Awards, including national firm of the year. 

ANM Global has merged with Mumbai-based IP boutique Literati Juris, a firm founded in 2018 by Ragnini Shah and Rahul Dhote. Full-service ANM Global was established in 2009, and enjoys a pan-India presence with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai. The firm has practice areas including IP, media and entertainment, sports and gaming law, information technology and litigation. It successfully represented Applause Entertainment in a trademark infringement suit involving allegations of trademark and publicity rights infringement related to the use of the Ismail Building in Mumbai, as depicted in the series Call My Agent: Bollywood. ANM Global’s successful defence in the suit safeguarded their client’s interests and affirmed their lawful use of the Ismail Building in the series. Moreover, the case set a precedent in clarifying the boundaries of trademark and publicity rights within the context of entertainment productions, highlighting the significance of legal expertise in resolving such disputes effectively. Nidhish Mehrotra is the firm’s co-founder and managing partner. 

Amit Aswal is managing partner at anovIP, which offers a full spectrum of intellectual property services, including generation, protection, enforcement, litigation and monetization, focussing primarily on patent work. The firm handles IP filing and management, search and analytics, prosecution and opposition, litigation and enforcement. It has recently opened an office in Noida and comprises more than 250 IP professionals, including patent agents, attorneys, paralegals and technical experts. 

The TMT practice at AP & Partners advises start-ups, technology majors and venture capital firms in sectors including satellite internet, mobility, ed-tech, social media, web3, telecommunications, semiconductors, SaaS, health-tech and ecommerce. The firm, based in Gurugram, is led by senior partner Anand Prasad; partner Arjun Sinha advises a broad spectrum of TMT clients on corporate transactions, market entry strategies and cross-border structuring. 

IPR-focused boutique law firm Ashwathh Legal started operations during the height of the pandemic in December 2020. With seasoned lawyers, each having experience of over 10-15 years, the firm brings a wealth of proven expertise around IPR laws both on the prosecution as well as litigation fronts for trademarks, copyright, designs, patents, customs IP investigation & enforcement, litigation & dispute resolution. The firm today counts some of the best Indian companies as well as multinational companies among their clients apart from advising startups. It continues to grow strategically by adding new practice areas such as data privacy and protection, media and entertainment, especially around content protection and anti-piracy, among others. Prabhu Tandon is the firm’s founder and managing partner; he regularly advises clients not only in India, but also in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The firm was named IP boutique of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

New Delhi-based full-service law firm Athena Legal was established in 2012. Its 30-member in-house team and pan-India network of over 400 lawyers dedicate themselves to providing topnotch services. These include legal & business solutions for complex and cross-border transactions as well as corporate advisory services for day-to-day operations. Intellectual property and data privacy are among the practice areas. The firm is led by managing partner Rajat Prakash. 

Leading full-service firm AZB Partners has offices spread across Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Pune. The firm offers “highly client-oriented” services, says a client who entrusts it with trademark and passing off work. Apart from the traditional IP filing and prosecution work, the firm is better known for its IP transactions and licensing work. Partner Nandan Pendsey is a key contact for IP work, as well as data privacy and protection matters. The firm was named IP transactions firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Bharucha & Partners was founded in March 2008 in Mumbai; the firm has since grown to offices in three cities with 11 partners and over 80 lawyers. In addition to IP work, the firm’s expertise is in corporate and commercial practice with mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, litigation, arbitration, media laws, governance, ethics, anti-corruption, capital markets and financial regulation. Kaushik Moitra leads the firm’s regulatory, IP and TMT practice, advising on media and technology-related documentation including licensing, distribution and revenue sharing agreements. 

Beruar & Beruar’s practice areas include copyright, trademarks, patents, design, geographical indications, dispute resolution, corporate advisory, investigation and enforcement. Partner Rahul Beruar co-founded the law firm and heads its IP practice. Heading the dispute resolution team is partner and co-founder Nidhi Jain. The firm has its head office in New Delhi and has additional offices in Mumbai and Ranchi. The firm successfully represented India Today Group, the media brand operating the leading national news channel AAJ TAK. Beruar & Beruar initiated trademark infringement proceedings against a news platform which operated under the infringing mark AAJ TAK WATCH. The firm secured an injunction against the defendant restraining them from using the infringing mark and secured removal of the infringing website and social media platforms. The firm was named copyright firm of the year for India at the 2025 Asia IP Awards in Kuala Lumpur, and enforcement firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

New Delhi-based Chadha & Chadha delivers high-quality work covering patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, plant varieties, emerging IPs, licensing and transactional IP for a diverse range of sectors – from electronics, IT, metallurgy and healthcare to fashion and education. It has successfully represented Cremo, a major Swiss dairy company, in a suit for passing off, unfair competition and dilution of trademark; brought an action for patent infringement in the U.S. against Royal Enfield North America for Flash Electronics (India) Private Limited and settled post negotiations with the defendant; and successfully assisted PRADA in the protection of its reputed trademark and trade name PRADA. Key contacts include Sonal Madan, Shivarpita Nailwal, Tarun Gandhi, Gopal Trivedi and managing partner Chetan Chadha. 

Chandrakant M. Joshi is an IP specialist in Mumbai, where the firm has practiced since 1968. Today, the firm is run by Hiral Chandrakant Joshi, and has specialists in chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, electronics and mechanical patent law, as well as trademarks, designs and copyright law. The firm advises clients from across South Asia, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Maldives, and other countries around the world. 

CIP Legit, based in Gurugram, covers the full spectrum of IP services including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, semiconductor layout designs, geographical indications and domain names. However, its general expertise lies in patent work. The firm bring extensive knowledge and experience in IP law to provide strategic and effective solutions to client. It also offers robust IP enforcement and litigation services to protect clients’ rights. 

Mumbai-based Clove Legal is a full-service law firm with a business-centric approach. Its IP team, composed of professionals with well-rounded experience from some of India’s best law firms, stands out for its creative thinking, allowing it to sail through complex issues relating to intellectual property rights. These include trademarks, copyright, licensing, assignments and franchising. The firm particularly focusses on applying IP laws to new-age products and services that are digitally serviced and catered to as an enriching experience. 

Full-service law firm Indus Law joined the CMS legal network in May 2025 and is now known as CMS IndusLaw. has offices in Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad. The firm advises on IP protection, advisory, cross-border IP registration, litigation and dispute resolution, anti-counterfeiting actions, transactional IP, commercialization and valuation support. Suneeth Katarki, one of the firm’s four founding parters, is a key contact for IP matters, while Avimukt Dar, another founder, advises on data protection, ecommerce and fintech. The firm was named Bengaluru firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas traces its lineage to Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. The firm has more than 625 lawyers, including 100 partners. Swati Sharma is a partner and head of the firm’s IP practice; over the years, she has been involved in prestigious IP re-branding, brand adoption, IP strategy, tie-ups, IP mergers and acquisitions, IP disputes, business set up and commercial transactions involving IP for Fortune 100 clients. The firm has offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City at the International Financial Services Centre in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The firm was named IP transactions firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Dentons has launched its combination with leading Indian law firm Link Legal. Dentons is the first global law firm to combine with a law firm in India. Through this combination Dentons now has an established presence New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Noida and Hyderabad, as well as in GIFT City, an emerging financial and IT services hub near Ahmedabad. Dentons Link Legal Indian lawyers will represent clients inside India and Dentons lawyers will represent Link Legal’s clients outside of India. Senior partner Sidhartha Srivastava in Mumbai is an important IP contact at the firm. 

Strong IP player DePenning & DePenning is known for its non-contentious work. The Chennai-based firm handles IP searching, investigation, drafting, registration and enforcement as well as opposition procedures. Its services also cover domain names, geographical indications and portfolio management. DePenning & DePenning is a popular firm for multinationals doing work in India. With offices in Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, the firm has been serving clients for more than 165 years. The firm was named patent firm of the year for India at the 2025 Asia IP Awards in Kuala Lumpur and pharma, biotech and life science firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Legal practitioners at Dhairya Shah & Associates (DSA) have a knowledge and understanding of laws of different countries that enable them to effectively handle international IP prosecution matters. The team is armed with expertise in filing trademark applications and successfully handling trademark matters in Australia, the U.S., Canada, the UK, the UAE, and Europe. Patents, copyright and industrial design make up the other core services. Recently, the firm opened its domain dispute resolution practice to help clients protect their online presence. 

Based in New Delhi, Dodd & Co. is a law firm founded by Pooja Dodd in 2016. Dodd, formerly a partner with Fox Mandal and LexOrbis, provides intellectual property services to clients in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The firm provides a range of services including commercialization, cross-border measures, due diligence and audits, enforcement work, conducting extensive market surveys, detailed investigations, filing criminal complaints and civil suits. The team also boasts of substantial experience in the area of anti-counterfeiting of diverse products ranging from high-end luxury goods to FMCG goods. In addition to Pooja Dodd herself, Shilpi Jain and Rishika Aggarwal are key IP practitioners. 

Kolkata-based IP specialist D.P. Ahuja & Co. boasts more than 20 attorneys, five litigating counsel and five technical associates. With over 50 years of experience, the firm is known for its prosecution work, especially in the areas of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, telecommunications, material sciences, chemistry, textiles, space and rocket technology, and armaments. Its 2,700 clients around the world are mostly multinational corporations and universities. The firm has an extensive community service programme through which it feeds some 3,000 people daily and awards monthly scholarships for students from low-income families. 

DSK Legal was established in 2001, and today has more than 300 fee-earners, including 66 partners and associate partners. Based in Mumbai, the firm has offices in Pune, Bengaluru and New Delhi, as well as in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Anand Desai, Chandrima Mitra, Nakul Batra and Parag H. Khandhar are key IP contacts at the firm, which was named pharma, biotech and life science firm of the year and TMT firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

DuxLegis Attorneys, based in Mumbai, offers end-to-end IP services in India, Pakistan, the Middle East and African jurisdictions, covering a wide range of businesses, including patents, trademarks, industrial design and copyright. In 2020, the firm led efforts in which Indian customs authorities seized a large shipment of counterfeit Adidas shoes at the Nhava Sheva Port in Mumbai estimated to be valued at over US$800,000. Divyendu Verma is the firm’s managing partner; in the high-tech sector, he has handled a variety of issues including protection of software patents in India and has advised on issues related to SEPs, technology standards and indemnification for patent/IP infringement. 

Chennai-based Eshwars | House of Corporate and IPR Laws has a staff composed of five partners, 15 associates and one legal professional. Led by managing partner Eshwar Sabapathy, the firm provides the following services: IP audits, IP portfolio advisory, national and international filings and prosecution, litigation, domain name protection, distribution and franchising protection. N.V. Saisunder is a key IP practitioner. 

Excelon IP is a Gujurat-based firm which offers a one-stop solution for all intellectual property related matters including patents, trademarks, patents and designs. Its team of attorneys, analysts, chemists, pharmacists and engineers ensure these services are topnotch and delivered on a timely basis to its clients which range from startups to multinational companies across multiple industries within India and beyond its borders. Kinjal Joshi and Sanjaykumar Patel are the firm’s key practitioners. The firm also has offices in Mumbai and New Delhi. 

Full-service legal advisory firm Ezy Laws has three offices in Mumbai. Its IP practice offers a full range of services. Ankur Srivastava is the firm’s founder and managing partner. 

Established in 2008, Fidus Law Chambers is a boutique IP law firm in Noida. Its client portfolio includes Fortune 500 corporations and multinationals as well as small and medium enterprises and startups. The firm offers services for searching, filing, prosecution, oppositions and cancellations, renewals/ payment of annuities, multi-jurisdictional counselling on trademark law. Its IP coverage includes trademarks, patents, copyrights and designs, with its litigation practice encompassing internet laws, media, entertainment and telecommunication laws, trade secrets, advertising and unfair competition and regulatory laws. The firm has advised on NFTs, drafted contracts to factor in rights over NFTs and also advised on and applied for trademarks intended to be used in the metaverse. Founder and managing partner Shwetasree Majumder is a litigator of note in India, having appeared in more than 500 matters before the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India; she is also an active member of the International Trademark Association (INTA). Litigator Diva Arora divides her time between the courtroom and leading the firm’s commercial IP vertical, where she strategizes complex, cross-border and high-volume litigations for some of the firm’s key clients. The firm was named licensing and franchising firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Established in 1896, Fox Mandal possesses an unparalleled legal tradition of being the legal advisor for the East India Company and the successive Governments of the Presidency of Bombay. The firm has offices in India, the UK and Bangladesh with representative offices in important cities in India. It has 400 lawyers including 50 partners in its legal team. The firm has been assisting Samsung Electronics in prosecuting patent applications in India on various technologies such as telecommunication and mobile technologies as well as in its complex IP issues. Fox Mandal has also been advising Emmvee Photovoltaic Power, a famous solar solutions producer, in protecting, registering and maintaining its IP portfolio and providing assistance in filing international trademark applications (Madrid Protocol) in over 20 countries. The firm was named Kolkata firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Gagrats is engaged in regulatory work covering trademark, copyright and patent registrations, assignment and licensing work. The Firm has considerable experience in contentious IPR matters, including passing off and infringement work, and has recently represented Indian and European corporates in IPR-related disputes. It boasts of a pool of legal professionals who are products of some of the most eminent academic institutions in the world including Harvard, Cambridge, The London School of Economics and the National Law School of India. Some of these lawyers are qualified as Solicitors in England. 

Groser & Groser was founded in 1994 with a desire to help clients from abroad better understand India’s nascent intellectual property regime. Today, the modern firm is run by Francis Stewart Groser and Robin Mark Groser, along with several other other skilled professionals delivering premium quality legal services in the areas of patents, trademarks, designs, copyright and domain name protection. The firm is based in Gurugram.  

Groverlaw, founded in 2013 by former Remfry & Sagar lawyer Vikram Grover, is a Gurugram-based corporate, commercial and litigation practice which has established itself as an important player in Indian legal circles. The boutique law firm offers a wide spectrum of IP services – from protection, portfolio management, enforcement, prosecution, opposition and cancellation to search, clearance and monitoring.  

G&W Legal is able to combine the expertise of the prosecution and disputes team with commercial IP and tech/media seamlessly, ensuring across-the-board expertise in all aspects of intellectual property. Its IP practice covers copyrights, trademarks and industrial designs, enforcement, anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy; brand protection and prosecution; transactions and commercial IP; searches; advisory and strategy. The firm acted successfully for GoFundMe Inc. when its corporate namesake and flagship brand/mark GOFUNDME was refused registration by the Indian Trademarks Office. G&W Legal went on appeal against this refusal and succeeded, eventually getting the client’s application reinstated and accepted for registration by the Trademarks Office. 

H.K. Acharya & Company was established in 1977 in Ahmedabad and is one of the region’s most visible firms. Led today by the personable Rajeshkumar Acharya, the firm has a reputation for quality work. Acharya holds an M.S. in chemistry and a doctorate in pharmaceutical chemistry and is registered to practice before the Indian and Canadian patent and trademark offices. Harsha R. Acharya is the firm’s managing partner; she brings an in-depth understanding of business strategies. The firm was named Ahmedabad firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Located in New Delhi, illuminIP delivers filing and prosecution support services in multiple jurisdictions. The firm’s focus areas are trademarks, patents, copyright, design, geographical indications, fashion, technology, media and entertainment, sports law and competition law. Founding partner Kangan Roda heads the firm’s IP prosecution and litigation practices; she has represented clients in FMCG, F&B, pharmaceuticals, IT, banking, insurance and fashion sectors, among others, including Fortune 500 companies. Co-founder Rahul Govind left the firm in early 2025 to launch IP Ahead. 

New Delhi-based Inttl Advocare is a full-service IP firm, which was established in 1991 by noted litigator Hemant Singh. The firm’s clientele includes leading brands in foods and beverages, liquor, garments, cosmetics, FMCG, computer software, pharmaceuticals and other sectors. Co-managing partner Mamta Jha has built a reputation for her exceptional expertise in patents, trademarks, designs, copyrights and emerging technologies, including AI, NFTs and blockchain. The firm has represented Novartis in various suits. In one of these, the firm achieved a significant milestone by securing a final interlocutory injunction order against a generic drug manufacturer concerning a selection patent for the compound Ceritinib for Novartis. This noteworthy accomplishment not only highlights the firm’s legal prowess but also underscores its ability to navigate complex patent litigation successfully. Inttl Advocare has likewise acted for Nestlé, for which it filed close to 100 national phase applications in India, among numerous other clients. The firm was named enforcement firm of the year and TMT firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

InventIP Legal Services has built reliable relationships with quality patent attorneys and agents across the globe, giving it the capability to facilitate IP filing and prosecution across multiple jurisdictions. Its clients are based in India, the U.S., the UK, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Australia. Among these are multinationals, foreign law firms, startups, individual inventors, universities and NGOs. Also included in the clientele are three of the top five patent filers among IT companies. The firm has drafted more than 500 patents over the last five years and prosecuted twice as many. Ankush Bedi and Rahul Parmar are the firm’s founding partners; both came from CPA Global, where Parmar was an assistant vice president and Bedi was a senior manager. Before CPA Global, Parmar was lead IP professional and General Electric, Bedi was an engineer at Punj Lloyd. 

Delhi-based IP Ahead offers end-to-end services covering trademarks, copyrights, design protection, IP strategy, and litigation with a focus on practical advice and personalized solutions. Founder Rahul Govind launched the firm in early 2025 after leaving illuminIP, a firm he had co-founded. Govind focusses on trademark copyright and design prosecution, opposition and cancellation proceedings as well as infringement and litigation.  

IPHorizons in Bengaluru is a small and focussed patent boutique firm offering services of global standards. Aside from securing patent applications in India and U.S. patent offices, the firm’s services also include drafting of specifications in the complex areas of software, semiconductors and biotechnology. To date, the group has drafted about 50 specifications for filing in the U.S. and India, 30 granted patents in the U.S. and around 200 patents in India, and represent about 100 active patent cases in U.S. and 1,500 in India. The firm was founded by Naren Thappeta, a patent attorney in the U.S., patent agent in India and expert in IP laws in both countries. 

Ira Law was established in July 2018 by former Anand and Anand senior partner Binny Kalra and four other lawyers, all of whom were previously lawyers at Anand and Anand: Abhilasha Nautiyal, Aditya Gupta, Kruttika Vijay and Raunaq Kamath. The firm focuses on intellectual property laws, litigation and dispute resolution, insolvency and winding up, transactional advice, competition law, consumer protection laws, data privacy and protection, and media and advertising. It represented Google in a Google Ads litigation and a trademark proprietor in relation to infringement of a certification trademark relating to barcode numbers. The firm also defended Vistara (Tata SIA) in trademark litigation for an alleged mark “Fly Higher”. It also represented Burger King in litigation against a party which claimed to have been using the Burger King trademark for more than four decades. After detailed arguments were addressed by the parties, the matter was eventually settled in favour of Burger King. The firm was named TMT firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Jupiter Law Partners’ IP & IT teams cumulatively bring more than 80 years of experience. Areas of specialization are banking, retail, automobile, heavy vehicle, real estate, sporting goods, fashion and luxury and others. The firm embraces technology and continuously innovates; from the beginning, it has taken the paperless route. It also boasts its own invoicing software and uses professional video-conferencing facilities, among others. Co-founding partner Meera Chature Sankhari has been empanelled by WIPO as a domain name neutral. 

New Delhi-based Juriskps Law Offices serves its clients in the courts and tribunals at Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The firm has handled trademark cases for the Indian Badminton League and the Indian Post Office Bank, among others. Co-founder Amrita Chanchal is noted for her IP litigation work. 

Kan and Krishme handles a variety of media, entertainment, sweepstakes, promotions and intellectual property law matters, as well as a variety of technical matters, from its base in New Delhi. The firm has satellite offices in Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata, and representative offices in Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and the Maldives. Sharad Vadehra and Saurabh Kumar Gautam are key contacts. 

Boutique IP firm K&S Partners made its name through prosecution work. The firm has offices in Bangalore, Gurugram, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi. With over a decade of experience, Menon has been working with clients all over the world to protect their trademarks and branding in India and its sub-continent. The firm acted for Ashirvad Pipes Private Limited (APPL), the proprietor of the registered trademark Ashirvad. The company filed a suit before the City Civil & Sessions Court in Bengaluru against Singla Traders and its proprietor, Mr. Harsh Kumar, seeking, inter alia, a permanent injunction against the sale of infringing products (water storage tanks) bearing identical and infringing marks “Ashirvad” and “Ashirwad”. The court granted an ex parte ad interim injunction in favour of APPL, which remained in force during the pendency of the suit. The suit was uncontested by the defendants, and based on the evidence led by APPL, the court decreed the suit in favour of APPL. Latha R. Nair heads the firm’s trademark practice, Anupam Trivedi its patent practice and Sanjeev Tiwari its litigation practice. The firm won multiple awards at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards, including national firm of the year runner-up. 

Commercial law firm Khaitan & Co. has a respected IP practice with offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Gurugram and Singapore. Partners Adheesh Nargolkar, Nishad Nadkarni, Shailendra Bhandare and Smriti Yadav are key contacts. The firm’s clients include Tata Group Companies, Novartis, Amazon, Godrej Group, Menarini Asia-Pacific Holdings, CK Birla Corporate Services and Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL). The latter owns and controls the public performance rights of over 400 music labels, with more than 5 million international and domestic sound recordings. The firm represented PPL in a writ petition filed by PPL to quash a letter issued by the Additional Police Commissioner in Jaipur. In the letter, the police had interpreted certain provisions of the Copyright Act relating to the use of copyrighted works in marriages and related events in clear excess of their authority. The Rajasthan High Court, keeping in view the rights of the client as a copyright owner, stayed the operation of the letter during the pendency of the writ petition and clarified that the same would not be treated as permission by any person to play music without obtaining an appropriate license. The firm was named Mumbai firm of the year runner-up and IP transactions firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Khurana & Khurana delivers end-to-end IP prosecution, litigation and commercial law and licensing services. Its local (Noida, New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Indore, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Punjab, Chennai and Ahmedabad) and international offices (New York, Dubai, Dhaka, Hanoi, Yangon, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Jakarta, Manila and Bangkok) allow its 150 or so professionals to provide the needs of its more than 3,000 corporations that make up the firm’s clientele. 

King Stubb & Kasiva has been a player in the Indian intellectual property arena for more than a decade. The results-oriented firm also has key food; health care, pharma and life sciences; IT; and TMT practices which complement the IP practice. The team has stellar reputations for TMT sourcing and disputes, intellectual property litigation and brand protection as well as data protection work. Its clients include parts of the Tata group, Johnson Controls, Make My Trip, Aviva and Lenovo. Bengaluru-based managing partner Jidesh Kumar is noted for his technology transfer, due diligence and corporate work.  

Chennai-based senior partner Savitha Kesav Jagadeesan leads the IP practice at Kochhar & Co, one of India’s leading commercial law firms. The firm has represented footwear maker Bata in sending an infringement notice to the creators of the movie Jolly LLB 2 for using the name of the company and “damaging its reputation.” The firm has also advised Amaraja Batteries, tubing manufacturer Roll-Kraft and Godrej-Boyce. Senior partner Tarvinder Singh is a key contact at the firm. The firm was named Chennai firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Established in March 2021 in Chennai, KRIA Law prides itself on being a fully digital firm with cloud-based internal and external interactions and transactions and top-of-the-line software for IPR portfolio management, among others. Its practice areas include IP and information technology, litigation & dispute resolution, commercial, taxation, competition and anti-trust and general civil disputes. M.S. Bharath, a seasoned litigator, strategist and counsellor in the field of IP and the firm’s founder, is a key contact. Mentor R. Parthasarathy and partner Akshaya P. Sachin are leading practitioners. The firm was named Chennai firm of the year and IP boutique of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Krida Legal is a boutique firm specializing in laws regarding sports – krida means “sports” in Sanskrit – gaming, art, IP rights and agro-chemicals. Managing partner Vidushpat Singhania is one of the country’s top sports and gaming lawyers, and is noted for his advisory and consulting work on betting and gambling laws, league formation and rights structuring, tax implications, related commercial transactions and anti-doping disputes. He has represented the Commonwealth Games Federation and the Athletic Federation of India before Court of Arbitration for Sports, a renowned cricketer before the BCCI’s Anti-Doping Panel, and has assisted the National Sports Development Code Committee and Asian Football Confederation’s Governance Task Force. 

A full-service IP law firm, Krishna & Saurastri Associates delivers its services to all major industries. Among its practice areas are IP counselling, prosecution, litigation and transactions covering patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, geographical indications, plant varieties, domain names and semiconductor IC layouts. Managing partner Anshul Sunil Saurastri and partner Manish Saurastri are key contacts at the firm. The firm was named Mumbai firm of the year and licensing and franchising firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Krishnamurthy & Co., also known as K Law, is a full-service law firm with more than 85 lawyers. Senior partner Nikhil Krishnamurthy heads the firm’s intellectual property and media and entertainment divisions at K Law; he has considerable experience in IP litigation, prosecution, licensing and enforcement matters and has managed the IP enforcement campaigns of leading luxury and pharmaceutical brands and software companies. He has represented a wide array of clients in the media and entertainment and IT industries, including music publishers, collecting societies, authors and composers, radio stations, film production houses, record labels, actors, performing artists, fashion designers, models, intermediaries, and internet market platforms. The firm was named Bengaluru firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

From its humble beginnings as a one-room office in 1985, commercial firm Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is now a full-service law firm with 14 offices, 400 professionals and a sizeable IP team. Renowned litigator V. Lakshmikumaran is a founding partner and also a key contact. Life sciences group leader Malathi Lakshmikumaran works on pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnological patent applications, advises clients on plant variety protection and registration and is actively involved in the area of biodiversity and traditional knowledge. The firm’s services are anchored on technology, investing heavily on tech and infrastructure to allow its professionals and clients to work and collaborate with each other more efficiently and effectively. 

Managing partner Nancy Roy leads the team at Lall & Sethi in Delhi, which was named New Delhi & NCR firm of the year at Asia IP’s 2025 India Awards. The firm focuses on trademarks, copyrights, designs, patents, confidential information and trade secrets, entertainment and sports laws and information technology laws. The firm prides itself on having a top-notch IT system; its IP Management Software, developed in-house, ensures that timely responses are sent and deadlines are strictly adhered to. The firm was founded in 1994 by Chander Lall and Sandeep Sethi, both of whom have been elevated to senior advocates. Partners Anju Khanna, Raghav Malik, Tia Malik and Jyoti Kaur are key contacts.  

Over the past year, Mumbai-based Lex Mantis has witnessed notable growth and diversification in its practice areas, says founder Anuradha Maheshwari, who attributes the growth to the firm’s commitment to providing holistic legal support to clients. In addition to strengthening its core expertise in intellectual property, the firm has expanded into new and complementary practice areas, including corporate and commercial law, data protection and privacy, employment advisory and regulatory and compliance matters. Clients include Fun and Joy at Wrok, Crayboard, GroupM, Caymus Technology Ventures and Ctrl M Print Management. 

LexOrbis has developed legal and technical experience in media and entertainment, food and beverages, fashion, sports and publishing, automotive, aerospace, biotechnology, biosimilars, computers, chemical, consumer products, defence equipment, electrical and electronics, information and communication technology, software and mobile apps, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and seeds and agro-chemical products. Key IP practitioners include Manisha Singh and Abhai Pandey. In late 2023, the firm opened an office in Chennai, and in 2024, it opened one in Ahmedabad. The firm was named IP prosecution firm of the year and pharma, biotech and life sciences firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Link Legal has joined with Dentons, the first global law firm to combine with a law firm in India. Through this combination Dentons now has an established presence New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Noida and Hyderabad, as well as in GIFT City, an emerging financial and IT services hub near Ahmedabad. Dentons Link Legal Indian lawyers will represent clients inside India and Dentons lawyers will represent Link Legal’s clients outside of India. Senior partner Sidhartha Srivastava in Mumbai is an important IP contact at the firm. 

Little & Co., a 160-year-old firm, provides both contentious and non-contentious services relating to the laws of patents, trademarks, copyright and design. The firm also handles domestic and cross border acquisitions/transfer of IPR, software development, transfer of business that includes IPR, contracts in respect of media and entertainment industries, distribution and franchise arrangements and issues relating to restrictive and unfair trade practices. Among its partners are Jayendra P. Kapadia who has been practicing as an advocate since 1976. The firm counts government and semi-government-owned entities, multinationals, public and private sector banks and players in the power and infrastructure, pharmaceutical, mining and shipping industries. 

L.R. Swami Co. is a Chennai-based IP boutique. Founded in 1925, the firm provides advice and assistance in relation to patents, trademarks, copyrights and designs. In particular, its services include the following: trademark registration services, drafting of patent specifications, patent registration, copyright registration, design registration, trademark and patent searches, filing and prosecuting of national phase applications in India, enforcement of intellectual property rights and allied services. Key clients include the Raj Group, American Megatrends, Double Horse, Bharathi Cement, Royal Sundaram, TV9 and the Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Centre chain. 

Luthra and Luthra Law Offices is a full-service firm based in New Delhi, with offices in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai. The firm represented Médecins Sans Frontiéres (Doctors Without Borders) (MSF) in an action against Nadiadwala Grandsons Entertainment, whose motion picture Phantom portrayed MSF in a negative light by indicating that the NGO maintained links with fanatic groups. Harminder “Harry” Chawla joined the firm as managing partner. Chawla was managing partner Atlas Law Partners, which merged with Luthra & Luthra; much of his experience came at the hands of the Rajiv Luthra, who founded Luthra & Luthra. Abhishek Ghai in New Delhi has represented a global technology public company in its disputes enumerating out of its investment in a tech start-up. 

Founded and headquartered in Kolkata, L.S. Davar & Co. is a full-service intellectual property law firm founded in 1932; it operates today as one of the oldest IP law firms in India, led by managing partner Joshita Davar Khemani. The firm protects and enforces portfolios for a wide variety of clients, including Fortune 500 companies across many sectors, and the Indian government and government entities. The firm provides services throughout South Asia with a network of associated firms. The firm was named Kolkata firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

With offices in Ahmedabad and Mumbai, M&P IP Protectors has built strong relationships across India and beyond, including other countries in Asia, the European Union, the United States and with the UAE. Its practice covers intellectual property counselling, prosecution, litigation, and transactions concerning patents, copyright, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs and legal drafting. 

Maheshwari & Co. Advocates and Legal Consultants has advised an array of local and international businesses in the following sectors: automotive, F&B, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, startups, ecommerce, banking and finance, infrastructure, real estate, information technology, power and telecom. Aside from its New Delhi office, the firm also has network offices in Mumbai and New York. 

Full-service law firm Majumdar & Partners in Mumbai and Bengaluru has more than 100 lawyers in 13 practice areas, including IP and TMT. The firm has filed trademark applications for Horseware Products and Eddie Bauer; handled a passing-off matter on behalf of Foodcare; represented Woolmark Services India before the Trademark Registry in infringement matters; and advised Temple Wellness Ventures on IP and regulatory issues with reference to a distribution contract for neutraceutical and wellness products in India. 

Mansukhlal Hiralal & Co. in Mumbai assists clients in the following: trademark advisory, searches, filings, prosecutions, registrations, and renewals; international registration of trademarks through the Madrid System and in the ASEAN Region; copyright advisory, filings, prosecution and registrations; design advisory, filings, prosecution, registrations and renewals; advisory, prosecution and registration with regard to protection of plant varieties and geographical indications; domain name searches, registrations and renewals; contentious matters; enforcement actions, due diligences, assignments and licensing agreements, among others. Partners Bhushan Shah, who leads the corporate team, and Meeta Kadhi, who focusses on IP, dispute resolution and real estate, are key practitioners. The firm is celebrating its 115th anniversary. 

The team at Mason & Associates is led by managing partner Neel Mason, a highly-regarded IP practitioner who has been involved in a number of groundbreaking IP decisions, particularly in trademark and copyright matters. The firm has recently acted for Ace Vector Limited, formerly Snapdeal, against Twitter on account of several URLs available on Twitter which are infringing AceVector’s trademark and copyright. An injunction order was passed in favour of Snapdeal directing Twitter to take down the infringing URLs. Other clients include Perrigo, Google India, Super Cassettes Industries, YouTube and Oxford University Press. In 2026, the firm will celebrate its 20th anniversary. 

Mehta & Mehta Associates (Mehta IP) in Gurugram assists both national and international clients on all IP related-issues, both contentious and non-contentious. Clients include MNCs, institutions, organizations and individuals. The firm is recognized for its techno-legal inputs, and cost-effective approach. A client notes that it has “close to 100% success in prosecution outside India.” 

Founded in January 2020, Mettle Legal is a boutique practice offering dynamic and innovative legal solutions in the field of intellectual property and information technology laws. The firm provides services in filing and prosecution strategies, protecting brands from counterfeiting and dilution, enforcing rights against squatters and intransigent misusers, handling complex cross-border commercial transactions and takeover of portfolios, and resolution of disputes. Ranjan Negi and Rekha Yadav are partners at the firm. 

MS Law Partners is a patent specialist. Established in 2018, it offers advisory and litigation services to its client base, from startups to multinationals including NFT marketplaces, AI and internet/IoT sectors. The firm’s practice also covers unfair competition, trade secrets, internet/computer software protection and IP transactions. MS Law Partners acted for Sahajanand Technology Private, from the diamond processing / mechanical industry, in pre-grant opposition proceedings against its pending patent applications. The firm was able to prove that the application was patentable, with India’s patent office rejecting all grounds of opposition: lack of inventive step, not an invention, lack of disclosure. 

General practice firm Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe has offices in Mumbai, New Delhi and Bengaluru. Established in 1895, the firm is one of the oldest in India and boasts of strong litigation and dispute resolution practices. The firm’s IP team is active advising clients in the media and entertainment industry, including singer Lata Mangeshkar and best-selling author Amish Tripathi. Multinational firms, large Indian companies and Fortune 500 companies make up the rest of its client base. 

MV Kini Law Firm, which has served clients for 35 years, has a network of more than 20 offices across India and the support of associates in Europe and the U.S. Its team of IP professionals has the capability to handle IPR issues for post-merger or acquisition or technology/IPR license negotiations and other challenging IP matters involving blockchain, driverless cars, AI and other cutting-edge technologies. In fact, the team has successfully defended clients in several high-stake litigation matters. Principal associate Raghavendra Bhat is a key contact for IP matters. 

Full-service Naik Naik & Co. is based in Mumbai, offering advice on IP, dispute resolution, finance and corporate matters. Founder and managing partner Ameet Naik is a litigator across a host of sectors, with a spotlight on media and entertainment work. Deputy managing partner Madhu Gadodia heads the firm’s media and technology practice; she has worked on prominent media, technology, gaming, sports and data protection advisory and contentious matters. The firm was named IP transactions firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Consulting firm Naxcent delivers branding, communication and business development solutions to lawyers, law firms and legal institutions. Siva Sankar Santhosh serves as director of the firm. Santhosh advises lawyers, law firms and other enterprises engaged in professional services on how to maximize the use of digital technologies in their business operations. In particular, he has assisted various law firms in their implementation of branding guidelines, social media strategy, SEO strategy, video marketing strategy and others. The firm’s office is in Mumbai. 

NovoJuris Legal is a new-age law firm based in Bengaluru and the Philadelphia area. In its decade-long history, the firm has worked with high-impact technology companies, large corporations, high-growth startups and disruptive business models. Its practice areas are in venture capital and private equity, technology laws, alternative investments and funds, intellectual property, cross-border transactions and compliances, M&A, privacy and data protection, corporate advisory, startups and accelerators, employment laws, real estate, dispute resolution, mediation and settlements; its clients include businesses involved in investment funds, SaaS, big data, analytics, fintech, health-tech, artificial intelligence, BFSI, automated driving, media and entertainment, ecommerce, web3, real estate and more. Sharda Balalji is the firm’s founder and managing partner and an angel investor. 

Led by founding partner Essenese Obhan, Obhan & Associates represents clients from various industries, most notably the technology (including mechanical, life sciences, software and electronics), publishing and media and real estate sectors. While it was established as an IP boutique, the firm has also set up a corporate department led by Ashima Obhan, who also handles M&A, finance and real estate matters. Its IP team consists of seasoned professionals in IP prosecution and contentious proceedings before IP offices and courts across India. Among its clients are TATA Chemicals, AGFA Group, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Aditya Birla Science & Technology Co., Steer Group, Pine Labs and MakeMyTrip (India). 

IP specialist Parker & Parker was the first ISO 9001:2008 Intellectual Property Law Firm in India, an award the firm attributes to its commitment to achieving professional excellence, reliability, thoroughness, consistency, transparency, fairness, and timeliness in providing services of the highest quality. Managing partner Dinesh Parmar specializes in trademarks, patents and corporate law; senior partner Amee Parmar specializes in trademarks and copyright law. The firm was named Ahmedabad firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Sanjay Kumar is the founder of Noida-based Perfexio Legal. The firm focuses largely on IP matters, including entertainment and media law, IP licensing and competition, as well as litigation and dispute resolution. In additional to more usual litigation matters, the firm has also handled a large number of high stake and unprecedented litigation matters, including representing innovation-based clients on issues pertaining to compulsory licensing and the Bolar exemption under the Indian Patent Law. 

Preetika Singh helms Preetika Singh Law Chambers, where she handles corporate law matters, including advising on IP, cyber laws, packaging laws, licensing and franchising, corporate affairs regulation, governance and policy. In addition to 13 years in private practice at Inttl Advocare, she spent 23 years as an in-house lawyer at Hindustan Unilever, plus an additional two years on retainer for the company. 

Fast-growing intellectual property firm Prism IP taps on the power of research and analytics to be able to deliver quality service for patent, trademark and design protection. Its team includes highly qualified PhD and Master’s degree holders from the country’s top universities who have hands on experience with different technologies. Satish Rana is the firm’s managing partner; it benefits from the mentorship of senior counsel Prem Lata and Devendra Nath. 

Priya Rao and Associates is a boutique law firm focusing on copyright, patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, litigation and information technology laws. The firm’s partners have decades of local and global experience in these fields under their belt as well as in-depth knowledge of markets and enforcement procedures, assuring clients around the world of premium end to end legal solutions to their intellectual property issues. Founder Priya Rao, who has over two decades or experience advising and representing Fortune 500 Companies in India and internationally, is a key contact. The firm was named IP boutique of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Prosoll Law provides services for trademark, copyright, design and patent prosecution. It excels in conducting searches, drafting and filing applications and steering the registration and post-registration processes. The firm also specializes in providing strategic counsel on IP portfolio management, IP enforcement and litigation. It also offers proactive IP counselling and is committed to empowering its clients with the knowledge and tools including licensing, technology transfers and dispute resolution. 

Protect IP India is a Gurugram-based firm that focuses on copyright and trademarks. Focussed on risk mitigation, the firm provides end-to-end solutions to intellectual property rights infringement, anti-counterfeiting investigations and enforcement with related services comprising business intelligence, market surveys, due diligence and supply chain investigation services. The firm has teams in India’s critical cities for a pan-Indian presence as well as associated lawyers around Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.  

Gurugram-based Rahul Chaudhry & Partners is led by managing partner Rahul Chaudhry. The firm offers reliable, business-centric legal counsel to both national and international clients. It assisted Info Edge (India) in filing two domain name complaints with WIPO to seek the transfer of the domain names www.naukri.ai and www.naukri.io from their respective registrants. In 2024, WIPO ruled in favour of the complainant and ordered the transfer of the domain name www.naukri.ai from the respondent to Info Edge. Similarly, WIPO also ruled in favour of the complainant and allowed the complaint, resulting in the transfer of the domain name www.naukri.io to Info Edge. The firm was named enforcement firm of the year and New Delhi & NCR firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Chennai-based Rajendra Law Office handles client matters related to licenses, patents, trademarks, distribution, copyright, technology transfers, franchises and trade secret projects. The firm was Chennai firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

New Delhi-based Rajeshwari & Associates is a full-service law firm specializing in intellectual property. The firm’s specialist teams cover a large range of industries, from pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, insecticides and biotechnology, to software, electronics, physics and engineering. Rajeshwari Hariharan brings a combination of command in trial advocacy and an aptitude for science and technology. Hariharan has argued numerous patent and trade secret cases before the Supreme Court of India and various high courts. Her achievements include winning the first-ever compulsory license for Natco, litigating the issue through the Supreme Court. 

IP powerhouse Remfry & Sagar, is a go-to firm for multinationals in India. As it approaches its 200th anniversary – it was founded in Calcutta in 1827 by Henry Oliver Remfry – the firm has undergone many changes, including its restructuring as a partnership in 2001. Managing partner Ashwin Julka leads a team of accomplished professionals, including trademark chair Samta Mehra, patent chair Pankaj Soni, and partners Cyril Abrol, Debashish Bannerjee, C.A. Brijesh and others. The Supreme Court of India recently ruled in favour of the firm’s client, holding that in cases of continuing IP infringement, urgency is inherent, and therefore, the exemption from pre-institution mediation required under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, squarely applies. The court said that “each day of continuing infringement aggravates injury to intellectual property and erodes its market standing.” The firm was named portfolio management firm of the year for India at the 2025 Asia IP Awards in Kuala Lumpur, and won multiple awards at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards, including national firm of the year runner-up 

Researchwire is an ISO 27001 certified global intellectual property, innovation support and market research consulting firm. Its global clientele includes Fortune 500 companies. The firm delivers the following services to its clients: patent portfolio evaluation and monetization, patent search and litigation support, open innovation and R&D support, competitive and market insights, patent prosecution support, AI and automation and IP support services. Praveen Singh and Bikram Kumar are the group’s founders. 

Rights & Marks boasts a team of tenacious professionals with both technical and market-based experience who come highly recommended for their work against counterfeiting operations. The firm offers end-to-end solutions, including advanced physical security technologies and supply chain track and trace services. Balajanaki Srinivasan founded the firm in 2001; today, from Chennai, she leads a team of 45 full-time trademark attorneys, lawyers, patent analysts, experts and support staff spread across offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Coimbatore and Madurai. 

IP specialist R.K. Dewan & Co. handles both contentious and non-contentious work. The firm is one of the largest filers of domestic Indian patent applications. Principal Mohan Dewan has more than 40 years of IP experience; Niti Dewan heads the firm’s patent practice. The firm represents more than 4,000 clients of all sizes and most fields, including software, automobiles, heavy engineering, chemical engineering, defense equipment, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology and food packaging technology. The firm was named IP prosecution firm of the year and Mumbai firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Ranjan Narula leads RNA, Technology and IP Attorneys from its Gurugram base. The firm recently acted for Puma in seeking a permanent injunction restraining infringement of trademark, passing off, damages, delivery up before the Delhi High Court against Pasco Sports, which was engaged in manufacturing and marketing footwear and filed several trademark applications for registration of deceptively similar marks and owned the domain name www.pamasports.com. The court granted an ex parte interim injunction and appointed a local commissioner to visit the defendant’s premises, where 350 pairs of infringing sports shoes and 35 bags bearing the PAMA mark were seized. Pasco has since changed its mark to ZAMA. The firm was named enforcement firm of the year, TMT firm of the year and New Delhi & NCR firm of the year runner-up at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

The team behind Royzz & Co. is a mixture of lawyers and engineers whose combined backgrounds and expertise allow the firm to deliver services that merge the business, scientific and creative components of legal matters. The firm has its main office in Mumbai but also has a presence in Chennai, New Delhi and Ahmedabad. Its IP practice covers copyright, trademark, design, geographical indication, patent, anti-counterfeiting and IP valuation. 

S&A Law Offices assists clients with IP protection, enforcement, drafting, pre and post-registration transactions, franchising, advertising, internet, e-commerce, domain names, among others. The firm manages one of the largest patent portfolios before the Indian Patent Office, representing major conglomerates and blue-chip companies worldwide in a wide range of technology sectors. Its office in Gurugram is a state-of-the-art technology-enabled facility with a floor area of 120,000 sq. ft. The firm also has offices in New Delhi and Mumbai.  

Delhi-based Saga Legal assists clients with trademarks, copyrights, patents, geographical indications and industrial designs, pertaining to the protection, prosecution, infringement or revocation of the same. The past year saw the firm further strengthening its enforcement and revocation measures. With a keen understanding of the legal landscape and extensive experience in navigating enforcement proceedings, the firm employs robust measures to protect its clients’ trademarks. The past year also saw the firm extending its footprint into diverse industries such as technology, healthcare, personal care, F&B and construction. Litigator Gaurav Nair is the firm’s founder and managing partner; principal associate Shilpa Chaudhury in Bengaluru is a key IP contact. 

Sagar Chandra and Ishani Chandra lead the team at Sagar Chandra & Associates in New Delhi. Founded in 2009, the boutique intellectual property law firm handles contentious and non-contentious matters for trademarks, copyrights, patents, designs, geographical indications, domain names, trade secrets and unfair competition as well as media and entertainment laws. The Chandras each have nearly two decades of experience in the field of intellectual property. 

S&H Partners is led by founders Samuel Niranjan and Himanshu Sharma. Niranjan was previously counsel and IP lead at Khaitan & Co. in Bengaluru, while Sharma is a former trademark examiner with the Indian trademark office.  

Sai & Mehta is a boutique firm in New Delhi with core practices covering patents, designs, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, geographical indications, domain names, cyber law, technology licensing, commercialization and others. Founder and managing partner Amit Mehta is a key contact. 

IP specialist Saikrishna & Associates has worked with international clients including Microsoft, Walt Disney, Pfizer and Star India. Its service areas include patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, personal data privacy and data protection, commercial IP, dispute resolution, sports law, telecom, media and technology, among others. The firm has offices in Noida, New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Founding partner Saikrishna Rajagopal is noted for work on anti-piracy matters. Bharatvir Singh is a key contact; former partner Ameet Datta left the firm in early 2025 to form ADP Law Offices. 

Samvad Partners is a full-service law firm with offices in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi. In addition to its IP practice, the firm also provide advice on data privacy, fintech, competition law, pharmaceuticals and TMT matters, among other practice areas. Aakash Sherwal is an experienced dispute resolution specialist with who provides advice in IT and the music industry. Nivedita Nivargi provides advice on technology and data privacy, general commercial contracts and regulatory compliance. In Sanskrit, the word samvad connotes discussion, dialogue, debate and engagement. 

Scriboard Advocates & Legal Consultants specializes in technology law, intellectual property, new media and telecommunications law. Established in 2010, the firm boasts a diverse clientele that includes industry leaders, technology companies, non-profit and public organizations. Among them is Amazon India, which the firm regularly represents in different courts across the country for trademark infringement and related matters. Leading practitioners include Ravi Goyal and Rodney D. Ryder. 

Raja Selvam started Selvam and Selvam in 2007 as a boutique IP firm. With over a decade of experience, he focuses his practice on all aspects related to trademark and domain disputes including prosecution, litigation, IP transactions like licensing and transfers, IP audits and due diligence, and brand acquisition and market entry. The firm was recently involved in the consolidation of the trademark portfolio of an Indian FMCG Fortune 500 Company subsequent to their de-merger. The firm counts 24 Hour Fitness, Workday, Cartier, Fromageries Bel, Crabtree & Evelyn and Xerox among its clientele. Partner Fiona Desouza specializes in patent-related work in life sciences, biochemistry, chemistry and pharmaceuticals. 

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. is one of the surviving firms out of the 2015 dissolution of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co. Based in New Delhi, Dev Robinson is the national practice head of the firm’s IP practice, in which he advises on a host of IP matters involving trademarks, trade dress, names, goodwill, copyright, designs and transactions involving commercial exploitation of intellectual property. Robinson’s clients include Honeywell, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Sony and Ericsson. The firm advised Sony on the merger of Sony Pictures Networks India and Zee Entertainment Enterprises. 

Shekhawat Law is a New Delhi-based boutique firm specializing in technology and IP law. The firm was founded by Sudarshan Singh Shekhawat, who provides services including IP registration, litigation and advisory services to international and domestic clients. As part of his patent practice, has worked on complicated technologies including mechanical engineering, electricals, electronics, pharmaceuticals and life sciences; he has also handled numerous issues pertaining to plant breeder rights and to the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. 

Sim and San recently opened a new office in New Delhi which will serve as the firm’s headquarters, with another office in Faridabad providing support to the facility, and a third location in Dubai. The firm has now stepped out to build up a robust expansion plan in new practice areas and bring in a pool of talent across all levels. Among the key lawyers are Sangeeta Goel for trademarks, Sidhant Goel for patents and Mohit Goel for dispute resolution, corporate-commercial transactions and advisory. In February 2025, Justice Prathiba M. Singh of the Delhi High Court issued a landmark judgment against Amazon Technologies, Inc., ordering the company to pay US$39 million in damages for the deliberate and wilful infringement of the well-known Beverly Hills Polo Club logo mark, one of the highest amount of IP damages ever awarded in India. Sim and San represented Lifestyle Equities in the matter, which was later stayed by a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court; the Supreme Court subsequently dismissed an appeal to lift the stay. 

Singh & Singh was founded by Maninder Singh and Prathiba Singh in 1999, both of whom have been elevated to the position of senior advocate; Maninder Singh is a former Additional Solicitor General of India. The firm handles a variety of IP, media and telecommunications, arbitration, competition law, tax, pharma regulatory matters. The firm has five partners and four associate partners working with more than 40 attorneys and patent agents. Bitika Sharma and Sudeep Chatterjee are particularly well-regarded; Saya Choudhary is recommended for patent work. The firm was named IP litigation firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

New Delhi-based Singhania & Partners is a leading full-service law firm, with branch offices in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The firm provides advice in IP, dispute resolution, corporate and commercial, M&A and other areas. Clients include large and medium Indian and foreign businesses, multinational corporations, and Fortune 500 companies, as well as ministries, government authorities and public sector undertakings. Senior partner Dipak Rao heads the IP and food laws practice at the firm. 

IP boutique SKS Law Associates is led by managing partner Guriqbal Singh Jaiya, who brings the firm 45 years of experience at both the Government of India and at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva; he focuses particularly on giving SMEs the tools and knowledge they need to navigate the global IP landscape. Partner Daisy Sharma specializes in life sciences and pharmaceuticals work. The firm was named pharma, biotech and life sciences firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. The firm mourned the passing of its founder, Sunita K. Sreedharan, in 2024. 

S.K. Srivastav & Co. was founded by Satish Kumar Srivastav in 1985. Srivastav earned a certificate to practice as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of England and Wales and was awarded a Fellowship by the International Bar Association. Among the firm’s areas of expertise are civil, corporate and commercial litigation; arbitration and dispute resolution; mergers and acquisitions; intellectual property; commercial contracts; IT and ecommerce; entertainment and media; telecommunications; human resources, employment and labour; foreign collaborations and joint ventures and several others. The firm has offices in Mumbai and New Delhi plus associates in India’s major cities. 

Kolkata-based S. Majumdar & Co. has acted for generic drug makers Natco Pharma and GM Pharma in patent proceedings against AstraZeneca before the Delhi High Court. Founding partner S. Majumdar is a well-praised practitioner and an expert in patent matters. Aside from patents, the firm also handles trademarks, industrial designs, copyright and trade secrets and has ventured into domain disputes, licensing, investigations and litigation. The firm was named Kolkata firm of the year and IP litigation firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

Mumbai-based Solomon & Co. was founded in 1909. With offices in Mumbai and Pune, its clientele includes government entities, local and multinational companies, banks, non-profit organizations and individuals. The firm provides support in the following areas: building and creating intellectual property portfolios, advising clients on maximizing returns from their IP assets, and on acquisition of IP rights, licensing agreements, technology transfers and JVs, collaboration research and developments agreements. The team also provides strategies and means of defending and enforcing IP rights, among others. Managing partner Aaron Solomon is a key contact. 

Bengaluru-based Spice Route Legal is a key partner for many technology-intensive companies. The firm is a player in the healthcare and life sciences, TMT and energy, sustainability and mobility sectors. The firm brings a unique approach to legal work, focusing on industries rather than practice areas. With offices across southern India, from Mumbai and Pune to Bengaluru and Kochi, the firm is comprised of not just intellectual property experts, but also lawyers skilled at M&A, private equity, regulatory work and data protection and cybersecurity. Founding partner Mathew Chacko is a well-known expert in data protection; he heads the firm’s TMT practice, and co-heads its financial services practice. 

Boutique firm S.S. Rana & Co. is one of the very few IP firms in India registered as Advocate-on-Record with the Supreme Court. Managing partners Vikrant Rana and Lucy Rana oversee the practice. The firm acted as instructing counsel to the respondent in Lal Babu Priyadarshi v. Amrit Pal Singh, a case in which the Supreme Court of India dismissed the appellant’s appeal and ruled that no person can claim the name of a holy book – in this case, Ramayan, a holy book for Hindus – as a trademark for goods or services marketed.  

The patent attorneys of Stratjuris have experience in drafting and prosecuting patents in numerous tech domains including chemical, food technology, telecommunication, software, defense and automobile. The firm is heavily engaged in drafting, prosecuting and analysis of electric mobility domain patents. Meanwhile, its trademark and design practice assists clients with filing and prosecution, opinions and handling of other issues before the Indian IP offices. Recently, the firm was able to secure well-known trademark status for several consumer brands under the newly introduced provision for recognition of well-known trademarks under the Indian trademark rules. Stratjuris’s headquarters is in Pune. 

New Delhi-based IP boutique Subramaniam & Associates has Pfizer, F Hoffmann-La Roche and Procter & Gamble on its clients list. It specializes in patents, trademarks, design, copyright, domain names, data protection, geographical indications and provides services in drafting, filing and prosecution of applications, searches, oppositions and enforcement, among others. The firm boasts of the latest technology and sophisticated software among its tools to ensure timely delivery of services to clients. The firm is led by founding and managing partner Hari Subramaniam, who has in-depth knowledge of the medical sector. Principal Shalina Ahuja is also a key contact. 

Sujata Chaudhri IP Attorneys, a growing IP boutique firm in Noida, was founded in 2014 to provide advisory, litigation and enforcement, and prosecution services in all areas of intellectual property. The firm focuses on adding value to the firm’s clients’ businesses; it has garnered clients ranging from Fortune 500 MNCs to start-ups with limited budgets. One of these clients is Hershey, for which the firm provided counsel and representation against the defendant who was engaged in the manufacture and retail services of counterfeit and expired chocolates bearing the HERSHEY marks during the Diwali season. The court issued an ex parte order and directions to seize and seal the infringing products found at the premises of the defendants. The firm also helped the court identify the new premises of the defendants which it had operated during the pendency of the suit, owing to which the court directed local police authorities to launch an investigation into the activities of the defendants. In addition to name partner and founder Sujata Chaudhri, partner Urfee Roomi is a key contact. Roomi spearheads the firm’s litigation and enforcement practice, with experience in courts around the country. He also has experience in settling IP disputes, including through mediation. 

A full-service intellectual property law firm based in New Delhi, Sushant M. Singh & Associates is known for its patent contentious work. Indian Oil, Castrol, GlaxoSmithKline, Infosys and Crompton Greaves are clients. The firm delivers advisory, prosecution, litigation, enforcement, international registration of intellectual property services, among others. Based in New Delhi, managing partner Sushant Singh is an experienced litigator and key contact. 

Tejswi IP in Noida provides services for patents (chemical and pharma, computer and electronics, mechanical engineering), designs, copyright, geographical indications and trademark. Its team is composed of Deep Narayan Gautam, advocate, and Monika Sharma, who specializes in pharmacology and is a registered Indian patent agent. The firm was founded by Shikha Tejswi, who is noted for patent work in areas including chemistry, biotechnology, material science, computer hardware and software. 

Titus & Co. represents clients from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia, including 59 Fortune 500 companies. The New Delhi-based firm has associate offices all over India including New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata, and in other parts of the world including London, Milan, New York and Colombo. A total of 75 lawyers make up its team, with 45 lawyers working at its New Delhi office. 

TMT Law Practice has offices in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. The firm focuses on innovation, working in sectors ranging from startups to TMT, sports and entertainment to space and aviation, and software and AI to e-commerce and cyberspace. The firm provided assistance to a prominent local gaming platform in India which filed a suit to seek, inter alia, permanent and mandatory injunctions restraining the infringement of trademarks, passing off, rendition of accounts and damages against an entity that has adopted an identical trademark, using it as part of its domain name. The Delhi Court ruled in favour of the gaming platform by restraining the defendant and its affiliates from using the platform’s earlier, well-known and registered trademark. The court directed the domain name registrar to transfer the domain name in favour of the firm’s client. 

United & United is an IPR firm based in New Delhi serving global fashion brands, multinational companies, innovation centres, the Indian government and academic organizations. The firm’s senior partners are Sheel Kumar Bansal and Shravan Kumar Bansal. 

Mumbai-based Vashi & Vashi specializes in the protection of trade/service marks, copyright and domain names. Its crop of lawyers has prosecuted and defended multiple copyright infringement suits on behalf of India's largest music label and movie studio. They have filed for copyright registration of source codes, concept notes and other works. In the trademark sphere, the team has acted for a prominent international school and a globally famous coffee house in prosecuting multiple infringement and passing off suits and defending infringement and passing off suits respectively, among several others.  

Verum Legal regards itself as a firm for startups, founders, incubators, accelerators, angel investors and emerging growth companies. Its lawyers possess a firm grasp of business and technology, enabling the team to provide top-quality legal services for IP, including patents, copyright, trademark and industrial design. The firm was founded by Vasundhara Shanker, managing partner and a key contact.  

VKnow Patent Services in Mumbai boasts of a proficient and experienced team of professionals in product development and pharmaceutical R&D, business development and strategy. Among its services are patent drafting, filing and prosecution; invalidity search; identifying P-IV opportunities in the U.S.; freedom to operate search (non-infringement) and patentability analysis; trademark analysis and filing; and trademark prosecution. 

One of the oldest law firms in India, Wadia Ghandy & Co. provides high-quality IP service with a sharp business touch. Headquartered in Mumbai, the firm has branch offices in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai and Singapore. Marylou Bilawala is well-known for her IP litigation.  

W.S. Kane & Co., founded in 1942, originally specialized in intellectual property but has also branched out into dispute resolution. Leading practitioners include Ashutosh Kane, a key member of the IP prosecution and dispute resolution team, and Rahul Kadam, who has been handling trademark and copyright filing, prosecution and litigation for more than 25 years. 

Ahmedabad-based Y.J. Trivedi & Co. is noted for handling complex IP matters locally, nationally and internationally, and boasts a team with members coming from varied backgrounds, including chemistry, engineering, biology and law. The firm also has offices in Mumbai, New Delhi and Beawar, Rajasthan. Senior partner Jatin Trivedi has been practicing both as an advocate and as a patent and trademark attorney since 1999. Senior partner Gopi Trivedi leads the firm’s patent division and is a certified patent valuation analyst. The firm was named Ahmedabad firm of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards. 

ZeusIP has represented Red Bull seeking a permanent injunction against the proprietor of the Red Bull Health Club & Multi Gym in Kerala before the Delhi High Court, which granted an ex parte interim injunction restraining the defendant from using the Red Bull trademark and logo in any manner. Managing partner Gunjan Paharia heads up the practice. Senior partners Naveen Varma and Naqeeb Nawab are key contacts. The firm was named IP boutique of the year at the 2025 Asia IP India Awards.