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Our Services

What makes us different from other law firms is the attention we give to details.
Paul Cosmovici, Managing Partner

IP Portfolio Creation and Management

  • Worldwide trademark availability researches, including opinion on the registrability;
  • Worldwide trademark filing and prosecution, directly or indirectly through carefully selected network of partners;
  • Trademark maintenance services: change of owner’s name and / or address; transfer; limitation; renewal;
  • Trademark monitoring services.

  • Patent searches (prior-art, freedom-to-operate, patentability);
  • Patent specification drafting;
  • Patent filing and prosecution;
  • European patent validation and registration of services address in all contracting states, directly or through our carefully selected network of partners;
  • Unitary Patent related actions;
  • Patent maintenance services: change of owner’s name and / or address; transfer; patent annuity service.

  • Design searches;
  • Design filing and prosecution;
  • Deferment of publication;
  • Design maintenance actions: change of owner’s name and / or address; transfer; renewal.

  • Domain name strategies adapted on specific needs;
  • Acquisition of domain names, also available in countries with special requirements;
  • UDRP proceedings;
  • Tailored recovering proceedings where UDRP is not available;
  • Security measures and implementation;
  • Renewals;
  • Transfers;
  • Monitoring.

  • Copyright filing strategies;
  • Copyright applications in front of multiple intellectual property offices;
  • Computer software copyright consultancy and protection.

Intellectual Property Disputes

  • Consultancy and strategies concerning refusals, oppositions, cancellations, appeals and other similar actions related to trademarks, designs and patents;
  • Filing and responding to refusals issued by intellectual property offices;
  • Assistance and representation in opposition proceedings, cancellation actions, appeals or any other types of IP disputes;
  • Assistance and representation in UDRP cases, domain name recovery actions.
  • Negotiations;
  • Settlement Agreements.

Online protection

  • Online brand monitoring in multiple modules: marketplaces, web-sites, social media, mobile applications;
  • Take-down actions of infringing materials (web-sites, posts, marketplace listings, social-media profiles, etc).

  • Web-site copyright claims and statements;
  • E-commerce: legal guidance, data protection, personal data flows, etc;
  • Online brand use tips and tricks;
  • Terms and conditions: due diligence, drafting of terms and conditions in social media, marketplaces and web-sites;
  • Market surveys.

Intellectual Property Strategy and related IP expert services and Best Practice

  • Start-up Intellectual Property legal advice and “must have” criteria;
  • IP portfolio analysis on scope, strengths and weaknesses;
  • Legal opinions concerning Intellectual Property protection strategies, various Intellectual Property matters, know how and confidential information;
  • Tailored Intellectual Property filing strategies featuring territorial coverage, proposal of goods and services and competitive all-inclusive cost estimate.

  • Assistance and consultancy related to Intellectual Property acquisitions and divestments;
  • Assistance and consultancy related to technology Services agreements;
  • Preparation and drafting of assignments, licensing, franchising, technology transfers.

IP assets and technology improvement

  • Intellectual Property portfolio improvement for cost efficiency and full protection coverage;
  • Intellectual Property trends protection – Metaverse, NFT, Crypto, blockchain technology.

  • Advising on the main global trends in the patent and trademark fields
  • Advising on application of most up-to-date patenting strategies and directions taken by the main market competition
  • Advising on valuable elements that are considered as next steps in a specific industry

Innovation, Universities R&D, and Start-up communities

  • Regular IP training of entrepreneurs and start-ups;
  • Support through large library of IP contracts and model-clauses;
  • Start-ups analysis of IPRs;
  • Strategies for IPR protection during the various investment rounds;
  • Assisting entrepreneurs achieve their investment target through a cost-effective IP strategy.

  • Advising on established university hubs, involving university R&D departments, professors and students
  • Assisting spin-off entities during the entire business creation and research activity process
  • Research and identification of common grounds, and assistance in smooth use of subsequent IP assets, for the involved entities and entrepreneurs

  • Efficient strategies for complete IP protection (ex: software protection as copyright at the right moment, trademark protection, etc);
  • Software and IP contracts with developers and sub-contractors;
    Advising on patentability of new projects;

Investment funds, Venture Capital and Private Equity

  • IP audit related to target companies, before investment or acquisition;
  • Assisting target companies in preparation for acquisition of financing phase, reviewing and fixing IP gaps;

  • Fast paced review of the IPR weak points of target companies, through specific tools.
  • Assisting investment management teams in relation to the daily IP management of the portfolio companies.
  • Training of the acquisition or investment teams in key IP fields

Specific IP expert services

  • Advising on brand, patent valuation, software and additional IPR valuation

  • Consultancy and best practices;
  • Key labeling regulation;
  • Regulatory labeling compliance services.

  • IP clauses and contracts;
  • Set-up of contractual structures in multiple fields (ex.: licensing, franchising, etc);
  • Software contracts;
  • Joint-venture agreements;
  • Non-disclosure agreements;
  • Other specific, on-demand types of contracts.

Data Protection

  • Data Protection Policies (e.g. Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy);
  • Companies Data Flows (e.g. Data Mapping);
  • Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA);
  • Company internal documentation drafting (e.g. NDAs, Privacy Policy for
  • Recruitment, Privacy Policy for Employees, Standard Processing Agreement).

Litigation

  • IP disputes in Court cases and hearings attending;
  • Customs applications and court cases concerning custom-authorities actions;
  • Counterfeit actions;
  • Unfair competition cases;
  • Out-of-court settlement;
  • Intellectual Property enforcement.
COSMOVICI IP

4, Rue du Commerce
CH - 1204 Geneva
Switzerland

office@cosmovici-ip.com
+41 22 531 00 05

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