OBJECTIVE :
To work in the areas of intellectual property and corporate law.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY :
Registered attorney with over 10 years experience in intellectual property covering search and registration of Trademarks, Copyrights, infringements and passing off of various international organizations.
In the Indian Supreme Court for drafting and filing Special Leave Petitions and arguing on behalf of major organizations and the Indian government.
EXPERIENCE DETAILS :
Period : 1981-1989
REMFRY & SON (Now Remfry & Sagar) in the department of trade marks and copyrights for a period of 9 years .Being on the power of attorney handled cases at different stages including :
Protection of trade marks and copyrights in India as well as in other countries.
Conducting availability search.
Maintaining watch register, examining advertisement.
Advising clients regarding registrability of the mark.
Preparing and filing applications for registration in particular class.
Application for defensive registration.
Receiving official objections and advising clients in the response.
Representing applicants in arguments.
Filing appeals against the order of infringement and passing off.
Drafting a cease and desist notice.
Filing and hearing of stay petition.
Period : 1989 -Till date
Worked as an independent consultant advising major multinational companies on patents, trademarks and copyrights as listed above. Civil and Criminal matters at the Supreme Court, various High Courts, Monopolies & Restrictive Trade Rights Commission.
Patents : Advised IPT, Austria and located collaborators and advised them on protection of their rights in India.
Trademarks : Local clients: Infringement and passing off cases. Arguing at the High Courts on various issues and disputes between traders and manufacturers which include obtaining stay orders, vacating stay orders, Settling plaints and arguing at High Courts.
Multinationals : Represent Henkel, Simms Master Memory, Fittydent, Fato GmbH, in advising, preparing and filing documents for registration, assignment, merger, change of name, change of address, settling collaboration and user agreements.
Copyrights : Advised Gemplus for protection of "Smartcard".
Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission of India. Advocate for a Private College of Alternative Medicines at the MRTPC.
In the Supreme Court of India, New Delhi under an experienced counsel of good standing and immense experience in both government and private cases.
Private Cases :
Criminal : Drafting Special Leave Petitions, Stay Petitions, Written Statements, Counter Affidavit, Rejoinder Affidavit, Review Petitions, Application for Intervention, application for Substitution and other documents required to be drafted and argued for admittance.
Preparing arguments and assisting senior counsels at the hearing.
Preparing and arguing Writs.
Panel of Cotton Corporation of India :
1989-1999 :
Drafting Special Leave Petitions.
Stay petitions.
Counter affidavits
Rejoinder Affidavits
Transfer Petition (Civil / Criminal)
Review Petition (Civil / Criminal)
Contempt Petitions (Civil/Criminal)
Wrote arguments on behalf of the government.
1989-1994 (with Mr.
Girish Chandra on Appearance panel)
Appeared in the Supreme Court with the Attorney General of India and additional Solicitor Generals of India in various government matters.
Appointed as associate counsel at D.P. Ahuja & Company, Kolkatta
Apppointed Arbitrator in corporate matters.
Deputy Director (Legal) at the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE :
Assistant Organizer and Case Worker for The Association for Social Health in India at their Head Office at New Delhi with branches in all the states of India.
The assignment included planning of setting up of homes for destitute, schools in each state in accordance with the local laws and supervising the administration, functioning and arranging finances including grants from the government and making policies for development and progress on the basis of the reports submitted by each branch.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS :
Bachelors Degree in Law
Masters Degree in Public Administration
Bachelors Degree in Political Science with Honors
ADDITIONAL COURSES : (to be able to provide better service)
Export Management : Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)
Java/HTML/SQL. (To understand the programs based on them and advise them on the legal protection thereof.)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS :
Member of the Bar Council of Delhi
Member of the Bar Association of the Supreme Court of India
Member of the Bar Association of the High Court of Delhi.
Life Member of the Institute of Public Administration of India.
Member of ICA, FICCI.
Member of FACT, FICCI.
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