About us
Presentation
The emerging markets of the Russian Federation continue to attract worldwide interest and investment.
Western business operation in this market requires professional and highly skilled advice from practitioners.
The Russian lawyers and patent and trademark attorneys of Law and Patent Firm “IP PRO” have highly developed skills and considerable experience in registration and protection of intellectual property rights throughout Russia and CIS countries. This includes prosecuting patent and trademark application, IPR consulting.
IP PRO provides clientele with professional and cost effective services and legal support related to all IPR matters, namely inventions, trademarks, industrial designs, utility models, copyright as well as IPR evaluation.
Our staff are patent attorney and lawyers having significant experience in litigation in civil and arbitration courts as far as intellectual property matters are concerned.
Our approach is to be cost effective and we want our clients to get the best value for their fees.
Our Services
Copyright and allied rights in Russia and abroad
- Counseling on copyright and allied rights (judicial and also out-of-court);
- Legal opinions on violations of copyright and allied rights. Drafting of claims against violators of copyright and allied rights;
- Conducting negotiations with authors, on behalf of authors and others proprietors regarding protection, assignment and also effective application of copyright and allied rights;
- Representation and protection of copyright and allied rights (personal property and non-property rights) before the courts, arbitration courts, and the relevant law-enforcement and anti-monopoly agencies;
- Expert analysis and drafting of copyright agreements (including Commissioning Agreements), license agreements and assignment agreements. Legal support for agreements;
- Registration (deposit) of items of copyright and allied rights with the Russian Author’s Association;
- Registration (deposit) of items of copyright and allied rights with the specialized organizations and agencies of foreign countries, including the Library of Congress of the USA;
- Legal assistance in confirming copyright and allied rights for a work in possible disputable situations;
- Counseling on the publication and effective use of copyright and allied rights;
- Registration with the Customs Register of items of copyright and allied rights, legal support before the Russian Customs Service.
Computer Software, databases and the topology of integral circuits
- Registration of computer software, databases and topologies of integrated circuits;
- Examination, drafting and registration of license agreements and assignment agreements for these items;
- Legal protection of computer software, databases and topologies of integrated circuits.
IP Protection on the Internet
- Classification of violations;
- Pre-trial conflict settlement;
- Protection against illegal use of copyright and allied rights, including rights of performers on the Internet;
- Protection against illegal use of trademarks, inventions, industrial designs, and utility models on the Internet;
- Identification of pirates on the Internet;
- Documentation of facts of IP violation on the Internet;
- Preparation of documents for filing with the law-enforcement agencies and/or the courts;
- Legal protection of designs, date bases, websites etc., including as a design.
Domain names
- Registration of names in all domains of common use (such as: com, net, org, biz, int. etc.) and in all geographic domains (ru, ua and so on);
- Registration of domain names as a trademark;
- Legal protection of the domain name before the judicial and administrative authorities.
Trademarks and Appellations of Origin in Russia and abroad
- Registration of Trademarks and Appellations of Origin in Russia and abroad under national, international, regional and international systems, including the Madrid System and the EC System;
- Assignments and renewals of registrations;
- Evaluation of trademark registrability;
- Preliminary trademark search in respect of registered and registration-pending trademarks in Russia and abroad. Recommendations on the advisability of registration;
- New service for pharmaceutical companies: Preliminary Search for International Nonproprietary Name for pharmaceutical substances in the WHO Database;
- Trademark and Appellation of Origin Registration in the Customs Register and legal support before the Russian Customs Service;
- Negotiations with proprietors of opposed trademarks to obtain Letters of Consent or Trademark Assignments;
- Preparation of opinions on the similarity of designations, including at the request of court.
Agreements (license, assignment, franchising)
- Consulting and examination of license agreements, including patent, trademarks, know-how, trade secrets;
- Drafting and registration of franchising, license agreements and assignment agreements for IP objects, confidential agreements, and know-how;
- Negotiations and coordination of the terms of agreements with the parties;
- Legal support for agreements.
Inventions, utility models, and industrial designs in Russia and abroad
- Counseling on the whole range of matters regarding the most effective and reliable patent protection and choice of the proper patent object;
- Patenting of Inventions under national, regional and international systems including PCT, EPO and EAPO Agreements;
- Patenting of industrial designs and utility models under national and regional systems;
- Patent search for novelty in the active patent fund of Russia and other foreign countries and also among scientific and technical publications;
- Performance of all kinds of information searches to identify novelty and prior art;
- Evaluation of selected documents for patentability of inventions, and also in the cases of infringement of patentee rights and patent opposition, including preparation of conclusions by request of the court;
- Recommendations on patentability in Russia and abroad;
- Independent legal and technical examinations of innovation and venture projects at different stages;
- Amendments and keeping patents valid.
IP Evaluation
- Evaluation of patents, trademarks
- Evaluation of copyright and allied rights;
- Evaluation of know-how, scientific research and R & D Work;
- License evaluation.
IP Protection
- Analysis of conflicts;
- Comprehensive preparation of a line of defense against illegal use of IP etc.;
- Establishing contacts with proprietors (negotiations, amicable agreements, assignment agreements);
- Documentation of instances of IP violation;
- Prosecution before the FIPS in disputable cases.
Pre-trial dispute settlement
- Drafting and evaluation of letters of claim;
- Drafting letters for filing with the Federal Institute for Industrial Property (FIPS) and other state bodies;
- Conducting negotiations and drafting of amicable agreements;
- Filing of appeals, statements to be filed with the Chamber for Patent Disputes (PPS) and representation at the sittings.
Cooperation with the anti-monopoly and customs authorities in IP protection.
Protection of IP proprietors in disputes with administrative agencies
Cooperation with the Court Bailiffs Service:
- Development of an effective mechanism for enforcing court’ decisions;
- Control of bailiffs.
Resolution of disputes in court
- Consultations, case analysis, evaluation of the judicial prospects of litigation;
- Examination of documents presented;
- Formation of alternative legal positions for the litigation from the point of view of legal means of protecting rights that have been infringed;
- Preparation of procedural documents, initial claims, statements of defense against initial claims, appellate and cassation appeals;
- Representation before the court (courts), including courts of arbitration of different levels: lower courts, appeals, cassation review of judicial acts in exercise of supervisory powers and review of valid judgments in light of newly discovered facts.
Extra services
- Corporate IP audit, references, expert reports;
- Monitoring of the manufacturing and distribution of counterfeit items;
- Trust management of IP;
- Market research for IP rights holders;
- IP competition reconnaissance;
- IP consulting;
- Translation of patents and scientific and technical documentation;
- Assistance in legalization of documents (notarization, apostille);
- Conferences and seminars;
- Bar code registration;
- Corporate registration and re-registration (ZAO, OOO);
- Trademark development.
Background
IP PRO was founded in 1998 in order to provide the Russian and foreign companies with the full range of high quality service in the field of IP protection.
Primarily our firm consisted of only 3 people and dealt only with trademark.
The staff managed to resist the competition due to high quality of services and ability to flexible policy in changing economic conditions.
On the next stage the firm started to widen its scope of activities. In the year 2000 IPPRO was able to provide all range of legal services covering all IPR (industrial property, copyright and related rights).
Taking into consideration a substantial growth of clientele from Russia regions, IPPRO set up the first regional branch in Krasnodar City.
In 2001-2002 the firm effectively represented the interests of clients in Patent Dispute Chamber Appeal of the Russian Patent Office as well as in courts of first instance and the Higher Arbitration Court.
We successfully use international systems, functioning under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), namely the PCT and Madrid System (Madrid Agreement and Protocol).
The firm actively participates in the numerous national and international events and also organizes the Annual IPRs Conference. The number of publications of our staff in specialized magazines is constantly growing.
At present IPPRO has active business links with law firms and patent attorneys from the U.S.A., Canada, European and C.I.S. States and other countries.
Contact Information
Moscow office:
"IP Pro ltd.", 17, Lobachika str., office 610, P.O. Box 27, Moscow, 107113
Phone/fax: +7 -(495) -232-39-68, 234-08-44
Internet: www.ipprolaw.com
E-mail: ip@ipprolaw.com
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