Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Partner

J.V. Abhay is a partner at the Firm and part of the Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Abhay advises international and domestic clients on the full range of trade mark, domain name, copyright, design and breach of confidence issues. He acts for a wide array of innovation led high profile clients, including in the fashion and luxury products, hotel, telecommunication, media and entertainment and pharmaceutical industries. He specializes in enforcement, litigation and dispute resolution before Courts, adversarial proceedings before tribunals and strategic counselling. He manages the trade mark prosecution practice of the Intellectual Property Practice Group and also advises clients on IP aspects of corporate commercial transactions.

Abhay was admitted to the bar in 2004 and has over the years represented several clients in litigation and cancellation actions before various courts and tribunals in India and in other jurisdictions. During his career, Abhay has been a part of one of India’s largest trade mark litigation matters. He regularly provides advice to clients on branding issues and commercial exploitation of their IP rights.

He is member of the Bar Council of Delhi and is licensed to practice at all courts and trade mark offices in India. He is also a member of the INTA non-traditional trade marks committee. He is fluent in Hindi, English and Kannada.

English, Hindi