Intellectual Property

The Intellectual Property Department assists our clients with legal and technical solutions ranging from the selection of the most adequate protection strategy to administrative proceedings in case of rights infringements, contracts and related litigation in Argentina and abroad.

We advise on trademarks, commercial names, domain names, patents, utility models, industrial designs, copyrights, software protection, agricultural varieties protection and other issues related to intellectual and industrial property rights.

Trademarks

- Advise on the outline of filings and registration strategies.

- Registrability analysis and assessment of results of trademark clearance searches.

- Filing and follow-up of trademark applications and oppositions, negotiation of agreements with opponents and applicants, attention to Office Actions issued by the Trademark Office, renewal of registries.

- Mediations and judicial actions derived from administrative proceedings and/or claims for cancellation, expiration and infringement suits.

- Due dilligence, recordal of assignments, mergers, and change in IP holder´s name.

- Drafting of license, franchising and merchandising agreements. Related litigation.

 

Domain names

- Registration and renewal of domain names, as well as their retrieval in case of cybersquatting and hijacking

- Complaint management in mediations and before courts. Preliminary injunctions

 

Patents and utility models

- Comprehensive advice for choosing the proper protection alternative

- Patentability surveys and prior art analysis

- Filing and prosecution of patents and utility models. Annuity payments

- Administrative remedies and legal actions against the Trademark Office

- Management of claims for the cessation of use and nullity in mediations and infringement suits. Preliminary injunctions

- Due dilligence, recordal of assignments, mergers, and change of IP holder´s name

- Drafting of license contracts and cooperation agreements, among others. Related litigation

 

Industrial designs / Design Patents

- Development of the adequate protection strategy.

- Background checks.

- Renewals of registrations.

- Attention to administrative complaints and legal actions.

- Infringement and cancellation complaints in mediations and before courts. Preliminary injunctions.

- Due dilligence, recordal of assignments, mergers, and change of IP holder´s name.

- Drafting of license agreements, assignments and related disputes.

 

Copyright

- Analysis of protection strategies and registration of works of art, software, digital works of art and photographs.

- Drafting of edition, assignment, commission of services, confidentiality, interpreter, translator and compiler agreements.

- Management of copyright claims, unauthorized reproduction of works of art and related damages, in mediation hearings and before courts. Preliminary injunctions.

 

Protection of agricultural varieties

- Comprehensive advice for choosing the adequate protection strategy.

- Procedures before the National Registry of Cultivar Property. Annuity payments.

- Enforcement of plant variety rights in mediations and before courts. Procedures before Asociación Argentina de Protección de las Obtenciones Vegetales. Preliminary injunctions.

- Due dilligence, recordal of assignments, mergers, and change of IP holder´s name.

- Drafting of license contracts and cooperation agreements. Related disputes.

 

Unfair competition

- Industrial and trade secrets, confidentiality agreements, employer/employee relationships, non-competition agreements.

- Drafting of agreements. Related disputes. Preliminary injunctions.

Distinctions

Legal 500

Band 4 (Intellectual Property)