Delhi-based IP law sole proprietorship Singh & Singh takes law firm Singh & Associates (S&A) to Delhi high court in a suit for trademark infringement. Advocate Pratibha Singh alleges that S&A is trying to mooch off her firm Singh & Singh’s “immense popularity and goodwill" through its deceptively similar name.

She alleges coming across various instances where S&A founding partner Manoj K Singh indulged in misrepresentation and made unsolicited approaches to her firm’s foreign associates and clients, starting in October 2010 when two S&A lawyers wrote an analysis of a patent infringement case argued by her. The article was published in an international magazine.

She bases her claim on the fact that her firm’s name was a registered trademark in 1997, whereas S&A became a registered trademark only in 2002, but Manoj Singh alleges that Pratibha Singh’s trademark application was only made in 2005.

Singh & Associates did not respond to Legally India's request for comment [Bar&Bench]