LET'S WORK TOGETHER ON YOUR PROJECTS
TURN YOUR IDEAS INTO A PROFITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT
Our team assists you in the different stages of the life cycle of your intellectual property rights, in Switzerland and at an international level. We help you to protect and defend your company's assets and advise you on potential risks, with the purpose of contributing to the success of your projects.
OUR SERVICES
ADVICE
Strategic recommendations on the protection of your IP rights
RISK ANALYSIS
Searches to identify potential risks of infringing third party rights
PROTECTION
Filing and follow up on prosecution in Switzerland and abroad
DEFENSE
Watching, negotiations with third parties, oppositions
CONTRACTS
Negotiations and drafting of license, franchising and confidentiality agreements and deeds of assignments
IP MANAGEMENT
Renewals, recordals of ownership changes, including owner modifications or assignments to third parties, monitoring of deadlines
OUR SERVICES IN DETAIL
TRADEMARKS
Preliminary analysis
- Assistance in finding a distinctive and protectable name
- Audit and optimization of your trademark portfolio
- Availability/clearance searches
- Filing strategy according to your industry, project and exporting countries
Filing and prosecution
- Drafting and filing applications before the relevant authorities
- Follow up during the registration process
- Monitoring of deadlines
- Responding to office actions
Maintenance
- Renewals
- Recordals of assignments and licences of trademarks
- Recordals of changes of trademark owner's name and/or address
Defense of your rights
- Watching
- Opposition procedures
- Cancellation actions based on non-use
- Negotiations with third parties
- Drafting of coexistence and settlement agreements during the pre-litigation phase
DESIGNS
Preliminary analysis
- Identification of the new and original aesthetic features of your product or its packaging
- Audit and optimization of your design portfolio
- Availability searches
- Filing strategy according to your industry, project and exporting countries
Filing and prosecution
- Drafting and filing applications before the relevant authorities
- Follow up during the registration process
- Monitoring of deadlines
- Responding to office actions
Maintenance
- Renewal
- Recordals of ownership changes
Defense of your rights
- Watching
- Negotiations with third parties
- Drafting of coexistence and settlement agreements during the pre-litigation phase
PATENTS
- Preliminary analysis of the patentability of your invention
- Strategic advice on protection
- Annuities payment and maintenance in force
- Recordals of changes
- Validation of European patents in Switzerland
DOMAIN NAMES
Preliminary analysis
- Audit and optimization of your domain name portfolio
- Availability searches
- Filing strategy (extensions and domain name variants)
Registration and maintenance of rights
- Registration of domain names
- Renewal and monitoring of deadlines
Defense of your rights
- Watching
- Negotiations with third parties
- Drafting of coexistence and settlement agreements during the pre-litigation phase
COPYRIGHTS
- Analysis of protected creations
- Obtaining admissible evidence of copyrighted materials
- Negotiation and drafting of assignment contracts
- Defense of your rights
- Advice on how to comply with related moral rights
- Advice on how to comply with image rights