E-COMMERCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW

India has become an increasingly important hub for information technology. Our practice in this arena is highly specialized and all encompassing - right from advising clients on the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and its applicability, to rendering advise on data protecting and privacy, IPR protection, and even issues relating to e-commerce. This area of practice complements our other practice areas, and we adopt a "Start to Maturity" approach where we guide the client on Information Technology laws right from the setting up stage and continue to guide the client in the various expansion stages.

Our Information Technology practice area focuses on:

    • Advising on the location of IPRs in the very initial stage of our client's growth, in addition at this stage we also draft or review various agreements, policies and procedures for protection of the IPRs
    • Assisting or reviewing internet risk management policies which can be incorporated in the staff procedural manual
    • Advising on legal and regulatory issues which are specific to the specialized industries in the information technology segment such as internet-banking, internet-broking, telecommunications to name a few spheres
    • Advising our clients on adequately protecting their data or their customers' data by effective use of agreements and disclaimers, and drafting employee privacy policies to ensure that the company is not held liable for any breach by the employee with respect to such confidential data
    • Assisting our clients in drafting web-hosting agreements, service agreements, online trading agreements, user/subscriber agreements, technology transfer, content license agreements, distribution agreements, and any other relevant agreement
    • Advising our clients on their licensing strategy, including factors like fields of use, exclusivity, and geographic limitations, and drafting license agreements
    • Advising our clients on patent issues, disputes arising from on-line transactions, domain name disputes, copyright and trademark infringement, passing off suits and applicability of foreign laws relating to protection of IPRs
    • Our advice is a comprehensive blend of business strategy, in-depth industry specific legal and tax issues and global tax minimization

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Contact details: For further information and / or suggestions, please contact Vaibhav Parikh
Email: vaibhav@nishithdesai.com