JITENDRA KUMAR SHARMA

Intellectual Property Attorney with around 11+ years of legal experience in procuring, maintaining and protecting intellectual assets for diverse companies and organizations. Creative legal researcher and strategic client advisor with excellent written, interpersonal and verbal communication skills.

In rapidly transforming digital & technology landscape, I function as "legal engineer"- leading & managing team to accomplish legal transactions for compliant & strategic commercialization of software products & services, spanning domains of Intellectual Property, licensing, IP contracts & online usage.

Intellectual Property Protection timely advice with proposed strategy for filing Trademarks globally.

Unit Manager – Legal (IP Attorney), MetLife, Noida

Develop, establish and maintain an enterprise-wide strategic intellectual property policy, including the creation of an executive-level innovation group responsible for reviewing new concepts and making strategic decisions regarding protection.

Serve as legal liaison with digital marketing, social media and mobile application development business teams, providing legal support and coordinating with other subject matter experts in the Law Department and the enterprise.

Negotiate and draft vendor and customer-facing agreements as they relate to all aspects of intellectual property, including license agreements, master services agreements and development agreements.

Provide intellectual property legal support to mergers and acquisition transactions, including due diligence reviews of intellectual property assets and drafting and negotiating transitional services agreements.

Manage intellectual property litigation, including coordinating with outside litigation counsel. Monitor legal cases pertaining to brand violation and investigations and enforcement actions against entities infringing trademarks.

Managing legal projects relating to implementation of Brand Protection policies and strategies.

Trademarks & Copyrights

Discussions/Web meetings/email exchange with internal/external stakeholders across globe including Legal Counsels, SMEs and Third-Party Suppliers.

Managing Trademark/Domain Names portfolio.

Handling registration, examination, opposition of IPR related matters in house with appearance before TM Authorities. Prepares Trademark Office filings through coordination with affiliates, including applications, responses to office action, assignments, declaration, Oppositions and renewals.

Interaction with Foreign Attorney’s for the purpose of reporting performance, escalation handling, clarifying concerns, and seeking feedback and support.

International trademark portfolio management and online brand protection for MetLife, including internet policing for trademark infringement and domain name disputes/recovery actions.

Filing and registration of Trademark, domain names, applications, handling opposition applications and rectification matters.

International searches, trademark watch, renewals, instructions to attorneys.

Conducting trademarks searches and giving opinion on availability of a mark for adoption as trademark, trademark filings.

Handling drafting of legal contracts/ agreements/ documents/ notices/ replies/ oppositions/ evidence/ written statements/ counter statements/ submissions.

IP Litigation handling.

Brand Protection

Online brand protection for MetLife, including internet policing for trademark/copyright infringement and domain name disputes/recovery actions/Enforcements, Trademark Search Reports.

Identify and analyze legal issues in a fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment and World Wide Web environment and on various Social Media platforms. Removing various contents from Social Network sites which infringe our trademarks and Copyright.

Social Media Account Management including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, managing online social media community calls and working groups with Global Brand and Marketing and insights to Digital teams and collaboration with IT Risk and Security teams.

Closely monitoring online scams including social media and introducing new protocols as per new technology/Social media frauds like Recruitment frauds, Phishing, Impersonation etc.

Managing Domain Name portfolio including registering; blocking, buying, protecting and transferring domain names.

Sending cease & Desist letters to third parties.

Domain Recovery

Cost-effective trademark recovery options are an important component of any effective brand protection strategy, boost revenues and enhance online security by recovering misspelled and "cybersquatted" variants of brand names from third-party infringers.

Enforcement Services

In those instances where the trademarks are being exploited online by cyber squatters and typo squatters, I help with the ICANN's Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) which offers an effective means to win them back.

Handling UDRP Proceeding in WIPO including drafting and filing cases under Universal Disputes Resolution Policy with WIPO and NAF.

CPA Global, NOIDA, India

Assisting senior attorneys in various functions which includes preparing for filing and filing drafted trademark applications, maintaining file histories, handling PTO correspondence, client reporting, managing global filing requests and coordinating associate correspondence.

Filing Trademarks in Indian Patent and Trademark Office

Trademark Search

Infringement Analysis for Trademarks, copyrights and Design Patent

Legal Vistas, Law Offices, New Delhi, India

Due Diligence of Commercial Properties for Banks.

Assisting Senior Councils in various functions which include preparation for filing Civil Suits under Labour Laws, Legal Research, Drafting Legal Notices and Reviewing Contracts.

Litigation Support in Delhi High Court and District Courts.

Achievements:

Inventor for an invention for “SYSTEM FOR LOCATION BASED SERVICES TO RAILWAYS AND ROADWAYS PASSENGERS AND METHOD THEREOF” and filed a Patent Application No. 201********* A at Indian Patent Office, India which is published now.

Created several value stories which help the organization to save legal cost in enforcement services.

Sagacious Research, Gurgaon

Worked as an IP Consultant to solicit legal advice for protection of Intellectual property for their clients and have introduced different strategies which help Sagacious to maintain Patent and Trademark portfolio for their clients.

Appointed as a Facilitator for Trademarks with Startup India Project under Ministry of Commerce and Industry appointed by Indian Patent and Trademark Office.

Tri - Parulex Fire Protection System

Worked as an IP Consultant to solicit legal advice to the organization to protect their technology by granting their first Patent in India and PCT (International Filings) on pro-bono basis.

Conferences and Seminars

Upcoming Online Masterclass by World Trademark Review (WTR EVNTS) on managing Social Media and Online Brand Protection to global organizations https://web.cvent.com/event/41f2b10d-90db-429e-96e1-e140900360f9/websitePage:4a9f1ae7-fd5e-40ea-a47b-8748de11f650?RefId=WTREvents.

Eminent speaker for the upcoming event by World Trademark Review at Taj Lands Mumbai for Brand Strategy India.

Eminent Speaker for 'National Conference on IPR: Intellectual Property as a strategic tool for Startups and Innovators in IT and Electronics sector ' on 4th May 2017 organized by PHD Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Eminent speaker for IPR Awareness Programme for the Industry Members of Ghaziabad on 30th December 2016 at Fortune Inn Hotel by Indian Industries Association.

Faculty Development Programmes for Trademark Awareness for B.Tech and M.Tech Faculties.

Certified on Contract Management from IACCM, US

Contract Management at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Management Development Program for “Excellence in Leadership” at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights at Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Tripura

Bachelor of Law (B.A.LL.B. 5 years) from Institute of Management Education (Law College).

Trained on Six Sigma Yellow Belt and Lean Methodology.

Member of International Trademark Association

Name

Jitendra Kumar Sharma

Date of Birth

October 22, 1986

Sex

Male

Nationality

Indian

Marital Status

Married

Work location

Noida, India

Email ID

adhu5c@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile Number

+91-783*******

Passport Status:

US Visa till May 2026

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