United & United

India

Analysis

Overview

Intellectual property boutique United & United has been established for over 70 years, covering the full spectrum of IP legal work including trademarks, copyrights, patents, designs, and information technology law. The team specialises in IP litigation, prosecution and enforcement. Its clients span startups to SMEs and Fortune 500 companies. In the past 12 months, the firm conducted 153 criminal raids, filed 228 IP cases, conducted 60 seizures of infringing goods, filed 1,200 trademark applications and filed 17 copyright applications. Senior partners Sheel Kumar Bansal and Shravan Kumar Bansal are the key contacts.

Intellectual property

Work highlights

Advised appellant Polo/Lauren Company in an appeal against an order passed by a district judge in Delhi vacating the ad-interim injunction restraining the defendant, Home Needs, from exporting, manufacturing, marketing, using, selling, soliciting and advertising trademarks too similar to those owned by the client.

Acting for Girdhar Khadi Industries against Khadi and Village Industries Commission in a trademark infringement case.

Key clients

Bvlgari Spa, Coty Germany, Fybros, Hugo Boss, Mcnroe Consumer Products.