Kinkin & Partners team provides legal services for comprehensive protection intellectual property rights in accordance with the provisions of National Law, the Community Law and the applicable international agreements. We offer advice and assistance in registration of trademarks, industrial designs, inventions and utility models and we provide follow up advice as well as legal representation for protection of violated rights. Our team assists clients with the preparation of legal analyzes for complex projects in relation with protection of customer rights, as well as with prevention of conflict with other entities’ intellectual property rights. We offer representation in front of the competent administrative and judicial authorities in cases of violated rights.
Kinkin & Partners provides a wide range of services in the field of Intellectual Property, including:
• study and analysis of the existence of previous rights on industrial property (trademarks and designs);
• advice regarding registration procedures and preparation of the necessary requests (trademarks and industrial designs) in front of the Patent Department of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Department for Harmonization in the Internal Market, the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization;
• preparation of documents for subsequent changes (transfer of ownership, change of address and owner, renewal of registration, burden with encumbrances);
• provision of services under comprehensive monitoring of industrial property (trademarks and industrial designs) and prompt notification of the client when applications for registration threaten his rights and interests;
• advice regarding the procedures for challenging the registration of trademarks and designs (deletion, cancellation and opposition procedures) and preparation of claims and objections;
• domain registration with observation and analysis of the intellectual property rights of the client and prevention of the possibility of violation of the rights of others;
• consultation and drafting of contracts for disposal of industrial property rights, conclusions of licensing agreements; detailed legal analysis of the procedures necessary to transfer rights to industrial property in various forms of transformation of commercial companies;
• advice and representation in front of the Commission for Protection of Competition in cases of imitation of company, trademark or geographical indication, domain or website;
• representation in front of the competent court upon appeals of decisions of the Patent Department, the Commission for Protection of Competition, as well as in all cases of violated rights on intellectual property.
