IP

AT Law Firm’s IP practice lawyers offer clients effective strategies for acquiring, managing, using and protecting intellectual property rights. The IP practice team includes experienced specialists and patent attorneys, as well as litigation lawyers with extensive experience in intellectual property disputes, including before the Russian Patent and Trademark Office and the Intellectual Property Court.
The focus of the practice is structuring the rights to use exclusive intellectual property rights in M&A transactions. We support a significant number of such projects, including on behalf of international investment and futures funds that plan to acquire assets in the IT and digital economy.

Practice services include, but are not limited to:
  • Advice on the protection of intellectual property, the protectability of objects.
  • Audit of intellectual property objects, including for the purpose of investment.
  • Registration of rights to intellectual property.
  • Granting rights to use, exclusive rights to intellectual property objects in the framework of M&A transactions.
  • Drafting agreements on the use of intellectual property: license, copyright, franchise agreements, etc.
  • Advising on issues of advertising and labeling of goods.
  • Protection of rights on the Internet.
  • Resolution of disputes in relation to intellectual property.

Examples of projects

IP

Defending the interests of a software developer who entered into a software license agreement with a Russian legal entity. The licensee attempted to artificially create grounds for early termination of the contract and return of funds. The lawyers collected evidence confirming the licensee’s use of the software and protected the developer’s rights in court.

IP

Defended the interests of the client in a project for early termination of legal protection of a trademark. The lawyers advised the client on establishing the evidentiary basis to support the use of the trademark in the Russian Federation and represented the client in court. The client uses the trademark for individualization of goods and services in the Russian Federation and EU countries.

IP

Drafting a trademark license agreement providing for a complicated system of royalty payment.

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