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Search and Monitoring

We have the in-house ability to conduct searches for the Czech and Slovak Republic, European Union and most worldwide regions. We also search, utilizing experienced search firms in all countries.

Through searches, watching services and private investigations, the firm is often able to detect infringers and counterfeiters at an early stage, thus permitting swift action to prevent the pirating of valuable trade mark rights, both in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Should you desire to use a mark, with or without registration, a professional trade mark search is recommended to determine whether your mark is eligible for use and registration. A trade mark search could also alert you to whether your use of the mark would infringe upon another party’s trade mark rights. It will help you find out whether your mark is available and whether or not you can claim exclusive rights for it.


Patents as source of information

Using modern online patent databases, a huge amount of information can be obtained selectively and very rapidly. For example, the following searches of patent literature can be performed, and are of great strategic interest to companies.

In all fields of competition, in particular in the areas protected by special rights (patent right, trade mark right, etc.) it is advisable to conduct a search, prior to going on the market, for the existence of prior rights in order to avoid possible collisions.

 

Monitoring

Our firm monitors maintenance fees and prosecution for patents, and other IP rights worldwide.

Monitoring your competitors

We also carries out competitor monitoring. This monitoring provides continuous information about the patent activities of others, and can provide indications of, for instance, future competing products or possible patent infringement.

We can:

  • conduct industry sector monitoring for clients in patents, designs and trade marks,
  • advise on patent citation watches where a client’s patents are cited in third party applications,
  • maintain watching services to identify applications to register trade marks anywhere in the world, which may conflict with our clients’ own trade marks. The Watch Service is also made available to other firms in the trade mark field who do not have this capability.
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Patents

The patent-related services we provide to our clients include:

  • Developing and executing prosecution strategies not only to protect a client’s products, but also to analyse those of its competitors to help ensure that the client realizes value from its intellectual property assets;
  • Patent, Europatent, PCT and SPC Application Preparation and Prosecution;
  • Advise on whether a patent can be granted;
  • International patent protection and national phases;
  • Civil litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, including infringement and dilution cases, counterfeiting, grey-market goods, false advertising, and cyber squatting;
  • Industrial Property Office and European Patent Office litigation, including oppositions and cancellation proceedings;
  • Preparing and negotiating licenses, assessing the licensing value of competitors’ patents, and guiding the client in the decision to license;
  • Monitoring the field to know when a client needs a clearance opinion or has a potential interference issue. These efforts can help direct the client in research and development areas that minimize patent obstacles;
  • Providing counsel on business-related matters, including antitrust and competition issues;
  • Advising on potential litigation strategies, and, when necessary, deploying experienced trial and appellate teams;

Our major area of endeavor is patent application work, including patent searching, preparation and filing of patent applications in the Czech Republic Industrial Property Office in the European Patent Office and through Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter or any new and useful improvement thereof may obtain a patent.
Inventions which are new, involve an inventive step, and are suitable for industrial application” may constitute the object matter of a patent.

It is generally only through patent protection that others can be prevented from copying one’s inventions. Our goal is to obtain the best possible patent protection for our clients at a reasonable cost.
Our firm have the technical expertise in many diverse areas of today and tomorrow to help our clients protect their intellectual property.
We can file for patents abroad. We also do a significant amount of work for patent firms and other clients in foreign countries who need patent representation in the Czech Republic or in the European Community

We will work with you to determine the optimum strategy for obtaining protection. This includes advice concerning the use of the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in order to defer costs and maintain the maximum flexibility in selecting the countries where protection is to be sought. We also offer a full “national phase” service in all member states of the EPC for clients seeking patent protection through that Convention.
We have technical specialists in virtually every field where patents may be obtained. We can also advise on analogous rights and know-how in such areas as computer software, bio-tech, plant patent, utility model, copyright and design right issues.

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