Intellectual Property Services · Trademark, Patent, Design & Copyright
Trademark, patent, design, and copyright registration, plus enforcement when someone infringes your rights. My Legal Pal helps founders, creators, and businesses protect their intellectual property in India and across borders, led by qualified IP lawyers and registered patent agents.
For most modern businesses, the real value is not in physical assets. It is in the brand customers recognise, the invention that sets you apart, the design that defines your product, and the content you create. That value is your intellectual property, and unless you protect it, anyone can copy it, dilute it, or claim it as their own.
Intellectual property law gives creators and businesses exclusive rights over what they create, the right to use it, license it, and stop others from exploiting it without permission. The four pillars are trademarks (your brand and identity), patents (your inventions), designs (the look of your product), and copyright (your original creative and written work). Each protects something different, and a well-protected business usually relies on more than one.
My Legal Pal helps you secure and defend all of them. From a single trademark registration to a full IP portfolio, from filing a patent to sending a cease-and-desist when someone infringes, our IP lawyers and registered patent agents guide you through registration, protection, and enforcement across India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and beyond. We treat IP not as paperwork but as the foundation of your competitive position.
Each type of IP protects a different part of what makes your business distinctive. Here is what each covers and how we help, with links to our dedicated service pages.
A trademark protects the name, logo, slogan, or mark that identifies your goods or services and distinguishes them from everyone else’s. It is the single most important IP asset for most businesses, because your brand is how customers find and trust you. We handle trademark registration, searches, and the full process, and we also defend your mark through replies to trademark objections, opposition proceedings, and ongoing trademark watch services that alert you when someone tries to register a confusingly similar mark.
A patent gives an inventor exclusive rights to a new invention, the right to stop others making, using, or selling it without permission, usually for twenty years. Patents are how technology and product companies protect the innovation at the heart of their business. We assist with patent registration and patent searches, working with registered patent agents to draft and file applications that hold up.
A design registration protects the visual appearance of a product, its shape, configuration, pattern, or ornamentation, as distinct from how it works. For product, fashion, and consumer businesses, the design is often what customers recognise and competitors copy. We handle design registration to secure that appearance.
Copyright protects original works, writing, music, art, photography, software, and more, giving the creator control over how the work is used, copied, and distributed. While copyright arises automatically on creation, registration strengthens your position and makes enforcement far easier. We handle copyright registration and advise on licensing and protection.
Select what is closest to your situation. We will tell you which IP right applies, what protection involves, and where to go next.
IP protection is not a formality. It changes what you can do with your business and what others can do to it.
Registration converts a thing you made into a legal right you own. Without it, you may be using a brand or selling a product that someone else can register first, and then stop you from using.
Registered IP is an asset. Investors look for it in due diligence, acquirers pay for it, and a protected brand or patent can be licensed for revenue. Unprotected IP is a gap that sophisticated buyers and investors notice immediately.
A registered right is what you enforce. With it, a cease-and-desist or takedown carries real weight, and you can pursue infringement through the courts. Without registration, enforcement is far harder and sometimes impossible.
IP rights are territorial, a trademark registered in India does not automatically protect you in the US or the EU. For businesses selling or expanding internationally, we advise on protecting your rights in the markets that matter, including through international systems such as the Madrid Protocol for trademarks.
A clear path from assessing what you have to securing and defending it.
We identify what you have that can and should be protected: brand, invention, design, content, and what matters most to your business.
Searches to check your mark or invention is available and protectable, before you invest in filing.
We prepare and file the registration with the relevant IP office, drafted to give the strongest protection.
We respond to objections and examination reports and carry the application through to registration.
Watch services and opposition work to catch and challenge anyone encroaching on your rights.
Cease-and-desist, takedowns, and enforcement if someone infringes what you have protected.
They protect different things. A trademark protects your brand, the name, logo, or mark that identifies your goods or services. A patent protects an invention, a new product or process. A design protects the visual appearance of a product. Copyright protects original creative works such as writing, art, music, and software. Many businesses need more than one: a tech company might hold a patent on its invention, a trademark on its brand, and copyright in its code.
Copyright does arise automatically when you create an original work, so registration is not strictly required for the right to exist. But registration creates official, dated proof of ownership, which makes enforcement far easier and more credible if you ever need to prove the work is yours. For anything commercially important, registration is worth it.
It varies by type. A trademark can last indefinitely as long as it is renewed (typically every ten years) and used. A patent generally lasts twenty years from filing. A registered design lasts a fixed term that varies by jurisdiction. Copyright typically lasts the life of the author plus several decades. We explain the term and renewal requirements for whatever you are protecting.
Only where it is registered. Intellectual property rights are territorial, so a trademark registered in India protects you in India, one registered in the US protects you in the US, and so on, none of them automatically protects you elsewhere. To protect your rights in other markets you must register in those jurisdictions, either country by country or, for trademarks, through international systems such as the Madrid Protocol, and for patents through routes such as the PCT. We advise on the right international filing strategy for the markets that matter to your business.
For most businesses, the trademark comes first, your brand is what customers recognise and what competitors are most likely to copy or block. After that, it depends on what makes you distinctive: a product company should consider patents and designs; a content or software business should prioritise copyright. We help you sequence protection so the most important and most vulnerable assets are secured first.
If your IP is registered, you have strong options: a cease-and-desist letter, a takedown notice for online infringement, and enforcement through the courts. The first step is a quick assessment of your rights and the infringement, after which we recommend the most effective and proportionate response.
It depends on the right and the jurisdiction. IP registration generally has two parts: an official government or registry fee, which is fixed by each country’s IP office, and our professional fee for the work. Government fees vary by jurisdiction and by the type of right, and often by applicant type. For example, trademark registration in India carries a concessional government fee for individuals, startups, and small enterprises and a standard fee for others, charged per class; the US, UK, and EU each have their own fee schedules. Whatever the jurisdiction, we always give you a clear starting figure for our professional fee and a precise custom quote, with the applicable government fees confirmed, before any work begins.
Every IP service we offer, in one place. Follow any link for the full detail, process, and pricing.
Trademark registration · Reply to trademark objection · Trademark opposition · Trademark watch
Patent registration · Patent search
Design registration · Copyright registration
Cease-and-desist notices · Takedown notices · Legal notices
Not sure which you need? See our FAQs or get in touch below and an IP lawyer will point you to the right one.
Tell us what you need to protect, a brand, an invention, a design, your creative work, or an infringement you are facing. An IP lawyer from our team will assess it and respond with a clear next step and a fixed-fee quote.
We protect IP for clients in India and internationally, and we are happy to advise on the right strategy for your markets.
Prakhar Rai is an advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of India and the founder of My Legal Pal. An alumnus of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, with a Master of Business Laws, Prakhar has 10+ years of experience advising startups, technology companies, SMEs, and individual entrepreneurs across India, the UAE, the UK, and Southeast Asia.
His practice includes significant intellectual property work, helping businesses build and defend the trademarks, patents, designs, and copyright that underpin their value. My Legal Pal’s IP services are led by Prakhar and delivered by a team of qualified IP lawyers and registered patent agents experienced in registration, prosecution, and enforcement.
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