Key practice areas: Patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs, geographical indications, plant variety, biological diversity, trade secrets and IP audits and licensing.

Our services: Founded by Advocate Sunita K Sreedharan in 2007, SKS Law Associates is a professional organization of lawyers and patent agents providing services in the area of intellectual property law to Indian and foreign clients. The practice specializes in the prosecution, litigation and licensing of patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial designs, geographical indications and plant variety protection. The SKS team has expertise in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, robotics, the internet of things, artificial intelligence and telecommunications.

The firm has advised on a number of high value license deals involving technology transfer and trade secrets. It is well-known for conducting IP audits and competitive intelligence. The book An Introduction to Intellectual Asset Management, authored by Sunita Sreedharan and published by CCH-India, part of Wolters Kluwer, has become a necessary addition to IPR law libraries.

In recognition for its services to the healthcare sector, the SKS team was awarded the “MEDCON 2016 Healthcare Legal Consultants of the Year Award”.

The SKS team specializes in advising on biodiversity laws and has been advising Indian and foreign clients, as well as the government, on biodiversity-related issues and traditional knowledge. The SKS team is part of two major ongoing biodiversity litigations and has successfully defended clients before the National Biodiversity Authority and the State Biodiversity Boards.

On policy matters the SKS team has drafted the legal framework for the regulation of access to traditional knowledge relating to genetic resources and benefit sharing for the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India.

Sunita Sreedharan has advised the Ministry of Health in Bhutan and has drafted the country’s National Health Law. She has also been commissioned by the World Health Organization to conduct two consecutive legislative assessments of IPR laws and biodiversity laws, including the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Mechanism in Public Health and its impact on research and product development in traditional medicine systems.

The SKS team has contributed a number of articles highlighting various issues and solutions to streamline the practice of IPR and the implementation of the National IPR Policy, besides preparing courseware for the Masters’ Programme on IP law for the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.