Practice Areas
Industrial and intellectual property
Industrial and intellectual property
Our firm offers a wide range of services in the area of patents, trademarks and service marks, designs, copyrights, software protection, domain names, including assistance and advice in the protection of rights, management, and defense of those rights, primarily in Argentina but also focusing on Latin America.
Industrial and intellectual property
Our firm offers a wide range of services in the area of patents, trademarks and service marks, designs, copyrights, software protection, domain names, including assistance and advice in the protection of rights, management, and defense of those rights, primarily in Argentina but also focusing on Latin America.
1. Trademarks
Comprehensive advisory and effective execution of filing instructions is the essence of this area.
We provide strategic management services regarding our clients’ trademark portfolios, assisting them in background searches to determine potential prior rights as well as in accurately classifying the products and services to be protected.
We join our clients throughout the registration, renewal, and monitoring process of trademarks, ownership transfers, name changes, opposition management, both nationally and internationally, also advising them regarding international agreements and treaties in the field.
2. Patents and Utility Models
We design strategies for the protection of innovations and technology, advising our clients on safeguarding their invention patents & utility models.
Patent searches in global databases, analyzing results, and generating key reports to properly assess the market and guide the decision-making process.
Drafting, filing, and prosecuting all types of patents & utility models. Handling both administrative appeals and legal actions to defend our clients’ rights.
Additionally, we conduct documentation, process, and physical and electronic facility analyses to assess and determine the security and confidentiality of information.
3. Industrial Models and Designs
We design strategies for the protection of industrial models and designs, advising our clients on safeguarding rights.
Searches in global databases, analyzing results, and generating key reports to properly assess the market and guide the decision-making process.
Drafting, filing, and prosecuting of single and/or multiple-applications.
4. Copyrights
The complexities of copyright law are escalating rapidly, in line with technological developments. Therefore, protecting copyright is a global challenge, especially since laws on the subject and procedures for enforcing rights vary from country to country.
We provide guidance to our clients for the protection of their intellectual works in Argentina and create the suitable framework for contractual relationships arising from these registered works.
Handling of software registration at the national copyright office and the argentine chamber of information technology companies, also advising our clients on their software licenses.
5. Transfer of Technology
Registration of contracts involving the transfer of technology or the licensing of industrial property rights from a foreign-domiciled company to a domestic company, for tax purposes.
6. Contracts
We assist our clients in negotiating and drafting contracts related to our practice.
Additionally, we provide legal advice in complex situations involving international trade, intellectual property, contract negotiation and drafting, consumer protection, and commercial networks.
7. Translations
Specialized translation focus to speed up the filing of patents and trademarks applications, handled or not by the Industrial Property Area of our Firm.
Fully aware of the filing terms regulated under International Treaties, to avoid late filing of documents. No additional costs for rush translations made on the limit of the deadline.
Highly competitive rates according to workload.
8. Contentious Matters
Our firm is dedicated to the strong defense of IP rights across all private, extrajudicial, and judicial at Trial Courts, Appellate Courts, and the National Supreme Court of Justice.
Experienced in seeking injunctions and applying international agreements such as TRIPS and the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) to solve disputes.