Mediation Before Litigation : India’s Quiet Shift in IP Dispute Resolution

Introduction In India, intellectual property (IP) protection has always been synonymous with litigation. The owners of trademarks, copyrights and patents have traditionally used court and tribunal adversarial proceedings to protect their rights. In spite of the importance of judicial enforcement, the number of cases has been increasing at a rapid pace, litigation is becoming more and more costly and litigating is taking so much time that policy makers and stakeholders have raised the...