Rahul Chaudhary & Partners is an IP specialist firm and its experience stretches back four decades – it was first known as Lall Lahiri & Salhotra. The team spans three offices in Delhi, Gurugram and Mumbai, and comprises 57 lawyers and 16 partners. The firm services a diverse and large set of domestic and global clients on contentious and non-contentious matters relating to various IP assets such as trademarks, copyrights, patents, geographical indications and design, and plant varieties and biodiversity. Its offering includes IP analytics, strategy, innovation management and protection, IP and non-IP litigation, operational strategies and data protection, domain name disputes, third-party negotiations and investigations, due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures, anti-counterfeiting and anti-infringement actions, global filing strategies and corporate IP transactional agreements. Apart from Indian IP laws, the firm also assists its clients on the protection of their IP rights in other neighbouring jurisdictions such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bhutan and Myanmar.
The litigation team has represented a wide range of rights-holders from across the globe in multiple industries. The anti-counterfeit and enforcement team is also highly active. The disputes team has handled more than 1,000 cases and claims a success rate of 97%. The key contacts for contentious IP are managing partner Rahul Chaudhry, founding partner Anuradha Salhotra and senior partner and trademarks expert Veena Poolakal.
Work highlights
Engaged by ModernaTX to consolidate its trademark portfolio.
Assisted Lupin and its subsidiaries on an audit of its international trademark portfolio.
Assisted Walmart Apollo in getting its iconic trademark Walmart being declared as well-known in India by the Trade Marks Registry.
Represented Novartis AG during negotiations of a co-existing arrangement with Olympus Therapeutics.
Successfully acted for US Green Building Council in an opposition to the registration of a similar mark.
Key clients
Aiwa, Authentic Brands Group, Cosmo First, Marico, Nike Innovate, QBO Coffee.
