Singh & Singh
Internally sometimes called the youngest legal head of India’s largest and oldest biscuit maker, Britannia Industries head of legal Burhan Khalid has litigation on his platter, and a lot of it.
IP powerhouse Singh & Singh & Lall & Sethi (SS&LS), just over two years after it was created in the merger of IP firms Singh & Singh and Lall & Sethi, will be breaking into two again after SS&LS managing partner Chander Lall is expected to get designated this year as a senior advocate by the Delhi high court.
Saikrishna & Associates won today for Micromax in the Delhihigh court against Ericsson, which had challenged the validity of a CCIinvestigation into its grant of patents contemporaneously with otherlegal challenges against it.
The dispute resolution team of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) acted for YuTeleventures and its three directors, Rahul Sharma, Sumeet Kumar and Vikas Jain before a division bench of Delhi high court where they appealed against the order of a single judge of the Delhi high court issuing bailable warrants against them in a contempt of court case.
Boutique intellectual property (IP) firms Lall & Sethi and Singh & Singh have merged to form the nine-partner, 27-lawyer firm SIngh & Singh Lall & Sethi effective 1 April, reported Bar & Bench.
Lall & Sethi managing partner Chander Lall told B&B that “the new firm can now handle both IP litigation and prosecution. We have truly become a composite boutique powerhouse in intellectual property. We can now cover all areas of intellectual property with a litigation experience, which is unmatched”.
Singh & Singh was founded by Pratibha Singh and her husband Maninder Singh in 1997. Both are now senior counsel, with Maninder Singh having been appointed additional solicitor general last year. In 2012, as the sole proprietor of the firm had sued Singh & Associates in the Delhi high court for passing off her firm’s name.
This is the third reported law firm merger in 2015, after Dhruva Vox and V Law and DH Law.
Kumar is the "key associate involved in all the patent matters" at Singh & Singh Law Firm LLP and has worked on cases in the pharmaceutical and technology fields, on matters such as the Novartis dispute and cases relating to fair, reasonable and non discriminatory (FRAND) patents, according to a statement from the firm.
Kumar graduated in 2007 with a business management degree, followed by a law degree from Bharati Vidyapeeth University Pune in 2010 and a Masters in IP law from University College London. The firm has three other senior associates and four partners.
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Singh & Associates (S&A) has responded to Delhi-based advocate Pratibha Singh’s Delhi high court claim of passing off her firm’s name Singh & Singh Advocates, asserting that she misrepresented facts, had no exclusive rights to the name “Singh”, and that her firm stood to gain from S&A’s reputation, and not the other way around, in the event of firm name confusion.
S&A also filed an application for rejection of her plaint, for lack of cause of action.
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]