AREAS OF EXPERTISE
We offer trademark attorney services in all Post-Soviet States: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
– trademark/patent registration;
– plant variety protection / plant breeders’ rights – PVP/PBR;
– commercial Registration/ National Listing/Variety listing;
– filing appeal and oppositions;
– filing use/non-use applications to the Appeal Board;
– overcoming provisional refusals against international applications filed through the WIPO’s Madrid System;
– appearing at the local Courts;
– advising on anti-counterfeiting strategy;
– registering trademark at the Customs Registry;
– monitoring registered marks and market watching services;
–IP due diligence and audit;
–sending cease and desist letters;
–out-of-court negotiations.
We have been representing interests of our clients in the CIS and in Baltic States for many years. Our lawyers have invested considerable time to develop an unrivalled understanding of the intellectual property sector in this region.
We are confident that Efendi Law & IP Consultancy has a team with the range and mixture of technical skills, experience, commercial awareness and resources to provide the necessary quality of advice and guidance.
Our legal team comprises IP lawyers with extensive experience in the region and provides full range of IP services including searching, registration of trademarks and patents, filing PBR/PVR applications, renewal, watching, assignment, licensing, prosecution, opposition and litigation. We have been involved in numerous IP matters representing our clients before Trademark/Patent Offices, Boards of Appeal as well as courts and customs authorities. This level of expertise ensures that our clients benefit from a combination of quality legal advice and pragmatic commercial advice if required.