Intellectual Property
You Goals
Do you have or plan to create intellectual assets?
You might have invested a lot of time and resources in
- Branding of your business: distinctive trademark (vivid logo, resonant name, appealing packaging of goods) and a winning domain name
- Design of your products: their layout, texture, composition or ornamental appearance
- Technological patentable inventions: machines, manufacturing processes, and products
- Creative works of copyright: website design and text, marketing collaterals, photos, videos, drawings, media articles, computer software, and databases.
- Drawing up business processes, strategies, customer lists giving you a competitive advantage and forming part of your trade secrets.
Our Expertise
Our firm has extensive experience of many years in handling different aspects of intellectual property rights, throughout their lifecycle.
Consulting
If you are unsure of the existence and the full extent of the intellectual property within your enterprise, we can help you shed light on this issue
- Uncovering the potential IP assets in a discussion about your business
- Informing you about different types of IP rights and their requirements
- Suggesting additional ways of protection (non-disclosure agreements, confidentiality clauses, information security measures)
Registration
Our firm can assist you throughout the process of national European and international registration of
- Trademarks
- Designs
- Patents.
We can help you
- Verify the compliance with the requisite legal criteria
- Research the relevant registers to confirm the novelty
- Prepare the relevant applications
- Respond to the examiners’ queries
- Handle oppositions and appeals, where applicable.
IP Management
Once your IP rights come into force, we can handle
- Renewal of your registered IP rights (where applicable)
- Licensing and franchising of IP assets
- Assignment of IP rights
- Oppositions to wrongful infringements at the Cyprus Registry
- Contractual protection of your intellectual property through confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
Litigation
We are ready to fully defend your intellectual property rights in the event of infringement, through dispute resolution or, if it comes to it, in court.
We are experienced in serving our clients throughout the litigation process, including litigation strategy creation, analysis of the market, discovery, work with the witness and experts, preparing the legal briefs and appearing in court.
Useful Resources
EU Intellectual Property Office