Intellectual Property
A trademark, patent or trade secret is often the most valuable thing a company owns. We protect it, from registration and licensing through to enforcement.
Where to start
The first conversation is free. Further legal work starts at CZK 5,000 excl. VAT per standalone task, typically a contract review, a licensing assessment or a letter before action.
Typical situations
A competitor is selling under your name or with a similar logo. Customers are confused and you're losing revenue.
A key person left and took along the technology, processes or recipes you spent years developing.
You have a brand, name or logo that isn't registered yet. You want to secure legal protection.
Your texts, photographs, software or graphics have appeared on someone else's website or in their product.
You want to grant or obtain a patent licence. You need a contract that protects both sides.
You share sensitive information with partners, suppliers or employees and want it legally safeguarded.
A programmer, designer, or author created a work during employment. You need to clarify who owns the rights.
A suspiciously similar product has appeared on the market. You're assessing whether your rights have been infringed and how to respond.
A key developer or an outside supplier holds the repository, the credentials or the know-how, and the company cannot be sure it can safely keep developing the product.
Your product contains GPL, MIT, Apache or other open-source libraries. You need to know whether you risk having to publish your own code or breaching a licence.
Your team develops with Copilot, ChatGPT or other AI tools. That raises questions of authorship, liability and training data, and it will come up in due diligence.
The supplier says the solution is its standard framework, yet you paid for bespoke development. You need to draw the line between a licence, ownership and the right to keep changing the product.
Practice
Trademarks: registration and protection
Patents and utility models
Copyright and licences
Trade secrets and know-how
Domain disputes
IP rights enforcement
Intellectual property is invisible, but losing it is highly visible. We protect it systematically.
Process
We map your intangible assets: brands, patents, licences and know-how. We find out what is protected and what isn't.
We design a registration strategy and contractual safeguards. Every protection must be proportionate to the asset's value.
We handle registration with the relevant offices and, if your rights are infringed, take legal action, from a cease-and-desist letter to court proceedings.
From our practice
Trademark
Our client had used its brand for 8 years without registering it. A competitor then registered a near-identical trademark. We filed oppositions with the Czech Industrial Property Office (ÚPV), with evidence of prior use and the brand's reputation. The oppositions succeeded: the competitor's mark was refused and the client finally registered its own.
Trade secret
A key developer left for a rival, taking along technology processes the company had spent 3 years developing. The employee had no non-compete, but the information was demonstrably a trade secret. We obtained a preliminary injunction barring the use of the know-how. The parties subsequently agreed on a licence fee.
Let's work it out
Call or write to us. The first conversation is always about understanding your situation, not about selling.
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