We promote intellectual property rights, representing our Clients in:
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Disputes over infringement of Trademark, Patent, Utility Model and Industrial Design, Business Name rights – for many years, our Office deals with our Clients‘ industrial and intellectual rights protection. We have substantial experience in dispute proceedings before Registration Offices and Courts. We represent Clients in disputes before the Czech IPO as well as in disputes concerning infringement of registered or unregistered rights and also offer quality services in asserting these rights abroad in cooperation with credible foreign partners.
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Unfair competition disputes – unfair competition practices are often used in business competition relations. In these cases we represent Clients in negotiations with infringers with the aim to cease their unlawful practices as well as in court proceedings. The most frequent cases concern a risk of confusion, living on another’s reputation, false advertising etc.
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Copyright disputes – representation of authors in court and out-of-court proceedings for asserting their claims according to copyright regulations.
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Disputes over protection of personality – legal action for protection of personality, for good reputation of legal and physical persons.
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Domain disputes – nowadays, with regard to growing importance of internet, the number of domain disputes is on the increase. Domain names can often collide with another’s rights to sign. In this field, we provide full service to our clients in representing them before Common and Arbitration Courts.
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Fight against counterfeiting - we represent Clients in all cases concerning fight against counterfeiting, such as elaboration of expertise reports on goods seized within the scope of customs control, filing a request for adopting a customs measure to industrial rights protection, conducting court proceedings for a declaration of infringement of intellectual property rights and further steps within the Customs proceedings, including representation of the injured in penal proceedings.
We provide complex legal aid and consultancy in the field of intellectual property rights:
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Copyright law – author’s work protection (literary, artistic, musical, scientific, computer program etc.), employee-work, consultancy, elaboration of expertise reports and analyses, relations to collective administrators of copyright, publishers‘ and database producers‘ rights etc.
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Contract for author’s work, licence – support and help in dealing with all contract agenda in the field of author’s works, including licences and sublicences.
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Business secret, know-how, data privacy contract.
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Databases, software a legal relations connected with providing thereof.
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Industrial rights licence, industrial property rights assignments (transfers).
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Media law, advertising law.