In particular, we secure registration proceedings concering trade marks and designs directly with the Czech and Slovak Intellectual Property Offices, as well as with EUIPO and WIPO. Due to the long-standing co-operation with attorneys from other jurisdictions we can provide the Clients with the trade mark/design protection in any country worldwide.
Within the area of designation rights we are offering the following services:
- Consultations regarding an assessment of the registrability of a trademark, or the registerability of an industrial design concerning its novelty and individual nature;
- Co-operation with graphic designers when creating new trademarks;
- Performance of research in the system and Monitoring® in trademark and design databases in the Volters Kluwer® system;
- Representation of clients in proceedings on the registration of trademarks, industrial designs and designations of origins of products, including classification of trademarks and designs;
- Monitoring of renewal terms of registered rights to designations, including payments of renewal fees;
- Monitoring valid documents for our clients in the Patrawin® system, offer of additional IPR Control® service;
- Registration of changes in the register (change of name and address, transfer of rights, registration of licence);
- Expert reports on valuation of rights to designations;
- Representation of clients in all types of dispute proceedings in connection with trademarks, unregistered designations and/or designs, such as objections to registration of a trade mark, deletion and cancellation proceedings, proceedings on a designation whether an industrial design falls within the scope of protection.