Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP is a full-service Intellectual Property and Technology law firm focused on rendering business friendly legal advice. The firm was formed in 1992 and merged with a law practice set up in 1956. Ever since, the firm has been navigating complex intellectual property and techno-legal issues for its diverse client base. To keep pace with the growth of its business and be ever present for its clients, the firm has about 170 people spread across offices in the major economic centers of Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, Ahmedabad and Chennai.
The firm represents clients from all major industries and sectors. The firm’s team includes specialists with niche expertise and industry experience, which is leveraged to provide clients maximum value from legal counseling. Additionally, most of the firm’s professionals have formative degrees in natural sciences, engineering, arts or business, prior to qualifying as lawyers, which is useful while navigating complex intellectual property and techno-legal issues.
Over the years, the firm has been ranked among the top tier Indian intellectual property and technology law firms consistently by leading domestic and international publications.
Founded in 1992
50 people in their team
Attorneys at Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP recognize the importance that trademarks can play as valuable assets in day to day business transactions. Our approach to trademark protection, litigation and advisory matters is holistic and tactical, backed by a deep understanding of the underlying commercial intent, to achieve the best possible outcome for our client.
We offer business friendly solutions to our clients enabling them to vigilantly protect and enforce the rights associated in their trademarks and reap commercial benefits therefrom. In India, we offer comprehensive advice on trademark law through our domestic offices. In foreign jurisdictions, we offer trademark services through a network of trusted associates and affiliates to meet our clients’ global needs.
Our firm has advised clients of all sizes and from all different industries. We have represented several major brand owners and have obtained a number of landmark decisions in the areas of registration, infringement, well known trademarks, anti-dilution (including blurring, smearing, tarnishment and free-riding) and unfair competition (including passing off, comparative advertising, defamation). We have also assisted large corporations in combating piracy, especially in the fields of cosmetics, medicines and consumer goods. Our body of work is cited regularly and has helped contribute towards the development of trademark jurisprudence in India.
Our attorneys are also members of several international and local associations which are involved in advocacy and public policy related to trademarks.
Our core expertise lies in resolving complex intellectual property and related commercial disputes. For several decades, our large and enormously experienced team has obtained best in class results for our clients in a creative and innovative manner. Our approach to each case is bespoke and crafted in close consideration of our client’s commercial needs. We always keep the bigger picture in mind, and devise solutions that are culturally acceptable and workable for our clients.
Our team of litigators is ever present to contest or defend before different commercial, civil, arbitral and criminal courts, tribunals, and other forums in India. We have among other things, tremendous experience in obtaining temporary reliefs, handling complex trials and appeals, attending to complicated arbitration proceedings, and enforcing intellectual property rights through customs, police and criminal courts.
We handle all aspects of litigation relating to trademarks, patents, copyrights, designs, unfair competition (including passing off, disparagement and defamation), trade secrets, plant varieties, biodiversity, geographical indications, domain names, license agreements, franchise agreements, contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, sale of goods disputes, consumer rights, media and entertainment disputes, competition law disputes, and international trade and tariff disputes. We have represented clients before the Supreme Court, High Courts, District Courts, Intellectual Property Appellate Board, National Biodiversity Authority, Competition Commission of India, National Company Law Tribunal, National Green Tribunal, and Consumer Fora. We also advise on domestic and international arbitrations.
Our costs are transparent, and we offer flexible fee arrangements to help suit our client’s budgetary needs. Each case is also handled by a good mix of senior and junior litigators who personally handle the entire process from conducting legal research and drafting pleadings to arguing cases and preferring appeals. This way we are able to handle a wide variety of disputes in a cost-effective manner.
