Contracts and Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property
Registration, defense and commercial use of trademarks, software and protected works.
A trademark is often a company's most valuable and least documented asset. Until there is a registration, use is merely tolerated; when a conflict arises, priority decides. Work in this area covers the full cycle: creating the right, maintaining it and using it.
Situations the area handles
- Trademark in commercial use with no application at the INPI.
- Registration application refused, or opposed by a third party.
- Misuse of a trademark, trade name or domain by a competitor.
- Software developed by a third party without assignment of economic rights.
- Content, database or work reproduced without authorization.
- Trademark or technology licensing with no defined territory, term or royalties.
What the work produces
- Prior-rights searches and trademark applications before the INPI.
- Handling of the administrative proceeding, oppositions, appeals and nullity actions.
- Assignment, license and development agreements with transfer of ownership.
- Cease-and-desist notices and court measures against misuse.
- Registration of computer programs and copyrighted works.
- Recovery of a domain name registered by a third party.
When to seek it
Before investing in communication under a mark that is not yet registered, and immediately upon identifying use by a third party — prolonged inaction weakens the position of the party complaining.
Talk about intellectual property
Describe the transaction and the stage it is at. The reply indicates what needs to be verified before the decision.