About:
S. Majumdar & Co., founded in 1993 is a full service Intellectual Property firm. The firm specializes in the practice of Intellectual Property Laws including Patents, Trademarks, Industrial Designs, Copyright, Geographical Indications and Trade secrets. The firm has also ventured into Domain disputes, Licensing, Investigations and Litigations.
Role:
The firm is seeking an Associate with atleast 5 years PQE to join our IPR Litigation team.
Requirements:
- Language: Excellent written and spoken command of English language is essential.
- Bar Qualification: Admission with Bar Council is mandatory. Kindly indicate your enrolment ID and status of AIBE in your cover letter.
- Experience: A firm experience managing litigation in Intellectual Property disputes is highly advantageous and would be given preference. Experience in managing suits under the Commercial Courts Act is desirable. Knowledge of Civil Procedure is mandatory. Practitioners with prior Intellectual Property experience would be preferred.
- Computer skills: Experience and competency with basic programs is essential.
- Commitment: We are looking for persons with a career orientation in Intellectual Property practice. And thus, applicants with long term goals in IP sector would be given preference.
- To be ready to deliver high quality work; ability to work as part of a team spread out in different cities; to analyse and think strategically about cases; to solve problems; to share your knowledge and inputs with the colleagues and clients and to do all this with a smile.
Responsibilities:
The role includes carrying out the following functions:
(a) advising on all kinds of intellectual property disputes, including preliminary analysis and long-term expectations from a case;
(b) attending to and managing day to day issues before the Courts, including, administrative hearings before the IPO ;
(c) drafting pleadings, applications and replies thereto for ongoing and fresh matters, including, preparation of plaint, written statements, interlocutory applications, replies, etc;
(d) briefing Senior Advocates for urgent reliefs in a time-bound manner;
(e) conducting legal research to develop arguments to be presented before the Bench;
(f) case law analysis for opinion writing and guiding the direction of the proceedings;
(g) participating in the enforcement of intellectual property rights;
(h) contributing to the Firm’s blog;
(i) conducting legal research;
(j) working with the Firm’s team of IP professionals;
(k) developing and putting in place IP protection strategies for clients;
(l) reporting to the senior management all relevant and material developments in the practice and client relationships.
Remuneration:
Industry standard / Competitive (Kindly indicate your expectation in your cover letter.)
How to Apply:
Candidates can apply here (click here).
The candidates are encouraged to provide a Cover Letter along with their CVs indicating their past experience and how they are a good fit for this vacancy. Please keep your cover letter to a maximum of one page.
Please also note that the candidate will be required to work full-time at our Kolkata Office. Selected Applicants from other cities would have to relocate at his/her expense.
