Our practice is devoted to protection of Clients’ rights to IP objects, including consultancy in all matters of development, use and protection of IP objects, negotiations, representation of Clients’ interests in courts and before administrative bodies.
We use all opportunities to settle a matter amicably at a pre-trial stage, while in the legal action we aim at speedy, efficient and result-oriented proceedings.
We represent successfully interests of biggest foreign and Russian companies, in particular in appealing decisions of state bodies, suppression of infringers’ activities, recovery of damages caused to holders of rights.

OUR SERVICES

• mediation in settling disputes relative to rights to IP objects in pre-trial process;
• termination and invalidation of trademarks, service marks and appellations of origin;
• evaluation of damage resulting from unlawful use of IP objects;
• consultancy in the matters of inclusion of IP objects in a nominal capital of companies;
• protection of Clients’ rights to IP objects at reorganization of companies, including takeover raids;
• representation Clients’ interests in courts and before administrative bodies (Chamber for Patent Disputes, Federal Antimonopoly Office, Customs, Services Of Domestic Affairs and others) in the matters of:
• use of trademarks, inventions
• legal protection of authors’ rights and allied rights
• legal protection of domain names
• protection of honor, dignity and business reputation
• protection against unfair competition and unfair advertising
• representing of Clients’ interests before authorities of domestic affairs, customs and other law-enforcement bodies for revealing counterfeited goods, producers and distributors thereof, suing infringers, custom seizure of goods with illegally used trademarks;
• drafting:
• agreements and contracts on transfer of technology and know-how
• confidentiality contracts
• authorship contracts
• producers’ contracts
• contracts in fashion industry, including distributors’ contracts, franchise contracts, agents’ contracts, commission agreements, supply agreements, sales agreements, as well as legal support of agreements
• license agreements and trademark assignment agreements.