The core disputes speciality at Tandon & Co is intellectual property, though it does offer a range of services in the areas of commercial litigation, real estate, product liability and recall, and contentious banking and project finance matters. This year the firm climbs up a notch in the commercial, government and regulatory, and insolvency rankings. The firm has offices in Delhi and Mumbai. In addition to representing clients before all national court levels, the firm has also appeared before the Delhi International Arbitration Centre, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration. Last year, the firm was very busy acting on multiple insolvency-related matters for national clients.
Founding partner Kunal Tandon is the main contact.
The firm continues to represent Bennett Coleman & Company to enforce its intellectual property rights in the series mark “Times” in relation to its television channels, print and digital media. The opposing party, Brand Value Communications, sought to misuse and encash the mark by adopting a similar name for a similar genre of television channel.
Sony Pictures Networks engaged the firm to challenge the Telecoms Regulatory Authority of India on its amendment to the new regulatory regime that was implemented in 2019. The changes as introduced were challenged by the client and various other broadcasters before the Bombay High Court on the ground of lack of transparency, violation of fundamental rights of the broadcasters and other grounds.
Tandon and his team are assisting Fullstack Education on an IP rights case. The client’s mark is “INSAID”, while the petitioner’s mark is “INSEAD”. The firm argued on behalf of the client that there is no deceptive similarity between the two marks and defended the client against the grant of any kind of stay in the matter. The matter is pending before the Delhi High Court and it was the first matter lodged in the IPD division before the high court after the abolition of Intellectual Property Appellate Board.
Key clients of the firm include Bank of Baroda, Central Bank of India, HDFC Bank and Step by Step Junior School Society.
