7 Circles began with a pattern we kept seeing from the other side of the table: strong Indian businesses arriving at a dispute, an acquisition or a funding round only to find their intellectual property had been filed carelessly, filed late, or never filed at all. The law had been followed. The strategy had never been written.
So the practice was built the other way around. Every engagement opens with an audit rather than a form — what the business owns, what it thinks it owns, and where the gap between those two will eventually cost money. Filings come after, and only for the assets that earn them.