Certificate Course on
Intellectual Property
Law and Practice
In collaboration with the Intellectual Property Practice at Fox Mandal & Associates
Intellectual property is no longer peripheral to legal practice. It is central to how businesses are built, valued, protected and transacted. This course teaches you how IP actually works inside a Tier-1 firm – from prosecution and enforcement to transactions and portfolio strategy.
Internship recommendations for top performers
From reading IP law
to practising it
Most law students can explain what a trademark is. Far fewer can conduct a clearance search, respond to a Registry examination report, draft a licensing agreement, build an enforcement strategy, or advise on IP in a transaction.
This course is designed to provide participants with an understanding of how IP matters are handled in practice – from initial client instructions to prosecution, transactions, and litigation. Across 8 live Sunday sessions, taught by the IP Practice team at Fox Mandal & Associates.
"This is not a course on IP theory. It is training in how IP is actually practised, argued, and resolved inside a Tier-1 firm."
Eight sessions.
One complete picture of IP practice.
CALSTAR,
MNLU Mumbai
Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai – established in 2014 – is one of India's premier National Law Universities, offering advanced legal education with exceptional industry exposure in corporate and commercial law.
The Centre for Advanced Legal Studies, Training and Research (CALSTAR) is MNLU Mumbai's dedicated body for academic, research, and training activities. Its partnership with SimuLegum as Centre Partner brings academic recognition to the programme and to the certificates issued on completion.
Your faculty for
this course
The course is taught by practitioners from Fox Mandal's Intellectual Property practice – lawyers who handle trademark filings, patent prosecution, IP transactions, enforcement, and client advisory as their daily work.
Legal 500 Next Generation Partner 2025 for Intellectual Property in India, and listed among Asia's Top 15 IP Lawyers by Asian Legal Business. With over 15 years of IP experience, Mathews focuses on trademark, copyright and design matters, and is recognised for being commercially minded, cost-effective and consistently accessible to clients.
Senior Associate in the IP Practice at Fox Mandal with hands-on experience in trademark prosecution, IP licensing, and transactional IP work. Advises clients across sectors on registration strategy, enforcement options, and IP protection in commercial arrangements.
Associate in the IP Practice at Fox Mandal, working across trademark, copyright, and patent matters including prosecution, opposition proceedings, and IP advisory for startups and technology-driven companies.
IP Associate at Fox Mandal working on trademark registration, IP agreements, and client advisory matters. Also leads SimuLegum's standalone webinar on key IP agreements – giving participants direct insight into how IP documentation is handled in practice.
Associate in the IP Practice at Fox Mandal, with experience in trademark and copyright matters, IP prosecution, and client-facing advisory work across sectors including technology and media.
Eight modules.
Eight Sundays.
Every session on Sundays at 3:00 PM IST covers a distinct area of IP practice, taught live by the IP Practice team at Fox Mandal & Associates. Starting 4 October 2026.
- Structure of an IP team across prosecution, litigation and transactional advisory
- How client instructions are received and triaged
- Building and maintaining an IP portfolio tracker
- Fee structures and engagement models
- What a first-year associate handles in the first six months
- Conducting a trademark clearance search and advising on filing risk
- Drafting and filing a trademark application
- Responding to an examination report
- Handling opposition and rectification proceedings
- Managing a multi-jurisdictional portfolio through the Madrid Protocol
- Advising a fintech or hedge fund client on clearing and filing a trademark for a fund name, strategy brand, or investor-facing product
- Assessing a suspected infringement and gathering evidence
- Drafting a cease and desist notice
- Structuring an anti-counterfeiting raid
- Advising on litigation versus coexistence
- Drafting and arguing an interim injunction application
- Advising an alternative investment firm on protecting its brand identity and trade dress across jurisdictions
- Advising on ownership across a production chain
- Drafting copyright assignment and licensing agreements
- Copyright issues in software and AI-generated content
- Advising on fair use defences and structuring royalty terms
- Advising a technology client on IP ownership in AI-generated content – who owns output, what can be registered, and how to draft agreements that survive regulatory scrutiny
- Copyright protection for proprietary algorithms, trading models, and research reports
- Working with a patent agent to scope a patentable invention
- Drafting patent claims and understanding claim construction
- Managing office actions from filing to grant
- Freedom-to-operate analysis before a product launch
- Patent versus trade secret decisions for R&D output
- Advising on freedom-to-operate analysis before a hedge fund or AI company deploys a technology product built on third-party IP
- Structuring an IP due diligence workstream
- Reviewing IP ownership chains for red flags
- Drafting IP representations, warranties and indemnities
- Advising on IP conditions preceding and closing deliverables
- Handling IP carve-outs and licence-back arrangements
- Conducting IP due diligence in a hedge fund or PE acquisition of an AI-first or IP-heavy target – identifying ownership gaps in training data, model weights, and datasets
- Building an IP protection roadmap for early and growth-stage clients
- Advising on IP licensing and monetisation
- Structuring IP holding arrangements for tax and risk efficiency
- Managing an IP portfolio through restructuring or rebrand
- Advising a board on IP risk
- Advising an AI company or quantitative investment firm on building an IP moat – what can be protected, what should remain trade secret, and how to structure licensing for revenue
- Drafting a plaint or petition in an IP infringement matter
- Preparing a client for a hearing
- Managing a dispute through settlement versus continued litigation
- Advising a client through an unfavourable order
- What Tier-1 IP teams look for in a fresher or lateral hire
- Emerging practice areas – IP counsel to AI companies, fintech, and alternative investment firms, and what skills differentiate candidates
Everything you need to go
from knowing to practising.
Direct access to practitioners who are actively handling trademark filings, patent prosecution, IP transactions, and enforcement matters – every Sunday at 3:00 PM IST on Zoom.
Merit-based recommendations to the IP Practice Team at Fox Mandal & Associates for top scorers in the final assessment. Eligibility requires attending a minimum of 5 out of 8 sessions and completing the assessment. Please check the course brochure for full details on internship eligibility.
Every live Sunday session is recorded. You keep access permanently with no expiry – for revision, reference, and continued learning at your own pace.
All registered participants receive a Certificate of Participation. Complete the assessment to earn a Certificate of Appreciation with your percentage scored.
All 8 sessions on Sundays at 3:00 PM IST – designed around your existing academic or professional commitments without compromise.
Direct interaction with one of India's most decorated IP teams and a cohort of peers who are serious about intellectual property as a career path.
What you need
to know
8 Sundays.
3:00 PM.
Starting 4 October.
Live sessions with the IP Practice Team at Fox Mandal & Associates. Certificate on completion. Internship recommendations for top performers.