Trademarks
CloseLaw Office Kopacz brings its expertise to all facets of trademark law, offering the following services:
Protection of your marks:
- legal audit of your marks
- implementation of surveillance so as to be able to act quickly against possible attacks on your marks
- determination of filing strategies in terms of territories and products and services covered
- prior art searches to identify and limit potential risks associated with the use and filing of a trademark
- national trademark filings
- European Union trademark filings
- filing of international trademark registrations
- management of registration procedures, including preparation and filing of responses to formal and substantive objections of intellectual property offices (INPI, EUIPO, WIPO)
- renewal of trademark registrations
- recordals with the intellectual property offices (change of name, change of address, transfer of property ...)
Exploitation and valuation of your trademarks:
- negotiation and drafting of assignment contracts
- negotiation and drafting of licensing contracts
- negotiation and drafting of coexistence contracts
Defense of your trademark rights in all disputes:
The Cabinet tries above all to resolve disputes amicably. One of the great strengths of the Office is to solve the majority of cases it handles amicably, which saves you time and money.
If an amicable resolution of the dispute proves impossible, the Office assists and represents you in the following procedures:
- administration procedures before the National Trademark Office (INPI), such as opposition procedures
- administration procedures before the European Trademark Office for Intellectual Property (EUIPO), in particular opposition procedures, invalidity procedures and cancellation procedures
- legal procedures before national civil and criminal courts, in particular to respond to acts of counterfeiting
- procedures for notifying trademark infringement on online sales platforms and social networks