International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Mahua Roy Chowdhury of Solomon & Roy Intellectual Property Services. Mahua has joined IR as our exclusive Entertainment, Media & Sports Law in India.
Mahua Roy Chowdhury is the founding Partner of SOLOMON & ROY, a boutique Intellectual Property Law Firm based in Mumbai, India. Mahua is a qualified advocate and a registered Patent Attorney with more than 16 years of experience. Mahua holds a LLM in Intellectual Property Law from Franklin Pierce (now University of New Hampshire), USA.
Prior to diversifying into IP, she practiced in Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court. Soon after joining the Bar she initiated several successful Public Interest Litigations in Delhi High Court.
As an Intellectual Property Law Attorney, Ms. Mahua has the following accomplishments to her credit:
She has been instrumental in varied nature of transactions including complex transactional matters like acquisition of IP, artist agreement, producers’ agreement, joint development by licensing, copyright license from author; and other media agreements.
She has played a pivotal role in several ongoing litigation including subject matters like use of ‘meta tags’ in ‘ad words’ for online advertisement for diverting consumers, bundling of media content in hand-held device and its alleged infringement, online cricket update rights & mobile activation rights and several trademark infringement cases including between licensor and licensee and infringement by third party.
She strongly believes in resolving disputes and adopting litigation as a last resort. She has also resolved several complex software infringement related disputes, contractual disputes (joint venture, licensing, media content creation) trademark and copyright infringement disputes.
Advent of technology has not only given rise to a parallel market space and hence created disputes on its various technological nuances but also has created several commercially viable bundle of rights. In this regard she has been proactively involved in advising and/or representing reputed foreign MNCs, ISPs as well as Indian content producers and distributers.
She also advises several group companies for their diverse business and products as well as regularly conducts audits to streamline and/or for the purpose of acquisition or as a due diligence.
Mahua has also been a speaker/moderator at several conferences and workshops and conducted lectures related to Intellectual Property including at International Trademark Association (INTA), Law Faculty Delhi University, IIT Mumbai, Faculty of Management Studies IP University and at several premier institutes and conferences. She also conducts in-house IP orientation workshops for management and Scientists of our various clients.
In recent years she has been propagating ‘extracting value out of an IP portfolio’ and ‘IP valuation’ in India at different forums as a Speaker.
If you have a requirement in this area, please get in touch with Mahua directly or with the International Referral head office for an introduction.