Trademarks
Taking into account growing interest of the Clients in professional and highly specialized services, we have focused our law firm’s development on issues related to trademarks, trade names and other distinctive signs. We concentrate on disputes before state authorities and administrative courts, and also on the disputes arising from unfair competition before common courts.
We advise how to effectively protect trademarks and other distinctive signs both in Poland and worldwide. We take all indispensable actions and complete all formalities to obtain such protection. We help to discover potential infringements of trademarks and other protected signs, and collect necessary evidences. We conduct all proceeding aimed at ceasing infringements and restraining infringer from using a protected sign.
We offer the following trademark services:
- registrations
- disputes
- searches
- management
Trademarks registrations
- applying for a protection of trademarks at Polish Patent Office (PPO), the EUIPO and the WIPO
- preparing lists of goods and services
- conducting trademarks clearance searches (see: below)
- monitoring application procedure
Trademarks disputes
- defending trademarks in proceedings before the PPO, the EUIPO and the WIPO
- invalidities of third parties trademarks
- revocations of third parties trademarks
- oppositions against third parties trademarks
- litigations including infringement actions
- appeals from adverse judgments and decisions
Trademark searches
- trade marks clearance searches on territories of European countries
- clearance searches of distinctive signs, i.a. company names, trade names, domain names in order to eliminate a likelihood of confusion with trade marks
- clearance searches of press and books titles, software names, titles of TV and movies productions in order to eliminate a likelihood of confusion with trade marks
- examination of copyrights being trademarks
- trademarks infringement searches in the Internet
- searches of proofs of use for trademarks
Trademarks management
- drafting contracts related to trademarks, inter alia licensing, franchising, transferring of rights
- renewal of trademarks registrations
- conduct trademark audits
- developing and implementation of trade mark protection strategy
- maintaining and monitoring trademarks
