Practitioners and in-house counsel share their insights on India’s IP professionals and how to choose among them. James Burden reports
Choices over which intellectual property (IP) lawyers to engage in different jurisdictions are among the most important decisions facing IP owners around the world.
In India, IP owners face a bewildering array of lawyers and other professionals to choose from. They range from sole practitioners to partners at well-known law firms; from regional experts to those more accustomed to strutting their stuff on the global stage; and from technical specialists with skills in various scientific and technological disciplines to litigators whose strengths lie in winning battles in the courtroom.
The exact number of IP professionals plying their trade up and down the country is anyone’s guess. “With the number of young people entering this field in India, it is truly difficult to estimate,” concedes Dev Robinson, an IP-focused partner at Amarchand Mangaldas. “But were one to look at it from the total number of applications being filed in the Patent Office, litigation and foreign prosecution, I would hazard a guess that about 1,500 professionals could be kept busy. In trademarks this number could be double.”
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