About us
We are a Czech-Slovak law firm with headquarters in Prague and Bratislava.
Since 2003, we have been providing comprehensive legal services for businesses in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Our clients are self-employed entrepreneurs and e-shops, small and medium-sized businesses and manufacturing companies, but also large multinational companies in the field of healthcare, engineering or retail, including the operation of shopping centres. Some have been with us since 2003, most of them we have been working for more than 10 years, but we also deal with budding entrepreneurs and start-ups.
Having trouble copying your brand or products? Are you considering protecting a logo, advertising slogan, product shape or even systematic protection of your company’s intellectual property?
We are ATTORNEYS focused on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY and help protect the results of human creative activity.
Intellectual property is intangible value that is the result of creative activity. Intellectual property is key to creating a company’s identity and protecting its position in the market, and they deserve corresponding protection.
Success attracts and tempts imitation therefore every successful business must expect that competitors will try to use its intellectual property, imitate a successful product, business concept, advertising slogan or brand in order to imitate its business success. It’s only a matter of time before that happens. Protecting intellectual property is therefore primarily an investment in the future, not only in terms of financial costs, but also in terms of saving time.
Why our law firm?
- Comprehensive legal services for companies
- We also deal with accounting and tax matters
- Legal solutions for the Czech and Slovak markets in one place
- More than 20 years of experience
- Verified references from long-term clients
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What can we do for you in the field of intellectual property protection?
TRADEMARK (BRAND) REGISTRATION
PRODUCT DESIGN REGISTRATION
TECHNICAL SOLUTION (INVENTION) REGISTRATION
CONTRACTUAL DOCUMENTATION AND INTELECTUAL PROPERTY
REPRESENTATION IN DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES
SYSTEMATIC INTELECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION
REPRESENTATION AT THE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY OFFICE
ENFORCEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY CLAIMS
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION IS AN INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE
It is important to know that if you initially underestimate the protection of a brand, product shape, slogan or a new solution to a technical problem and the competition exploits it, then returning to the “original state” may no longer be possible in full. It often happens that the competition seizes part of the advantages and to some extent defends its ill-gotten position thanks to the fact that you will be in need of evidence and will not be able to prove everything convincingly. So it is possible that in such a case you will have to put up with the permanent complications that such an outcome will bring.
Even if one is completely successful in defending underprotected intellectual property, the cost of such a legal defense will be many times greater than what you would pay for early protection in the form of a trademark, industrial design or utility model registration.
Furthermore, it should also be mentioned that intellectual property disputes usually last 4 years or more. These are complicated cases usually consisting of multiple proceedings both at the Industrial Property Office (ÚPV) and at the relevant court. Only the average length of proceedings at the ÚPV regarding objections to the registration or determination of the invalidity of a trademark or regarding the deletion of an industrial design or utility model is 2.5 years. The courts then often wait for the result and continue to consider the lawsuit after the final decision of the ÚPV.
Protecting intellectual property is therefore primarily an investment in the future, not only in terms of financial costs, but also in terms of time.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION STRATEGY
Even if you are just a small company and you only need to protect one brand or one name or logo, it is still necessary to think everything through carefully and choose such and such a trademark and such a list of goods or services that will ensure real protection of your interests. In other words, a write-up is not like a write-up. It is true that you can achieve the registration of e.g. a trademark yourself with the help of various advice on the Internet. But another matter is how much it will be about the real protection of your company and how much it will be wasted money for administrative fees. Unfortunately, it happens that clients come to us with a problem with competition and are surprised that the trademark they registered does not help.
Larger companies should then consider the systematic protection of intellectual property based on a well-thought-out strategy, not only from the point of view of registering various intellectual property rights, but also from the point of view of setting the content and archiving of various types of company documents or setting up company systems and processes so that the result there was a good level of protection of the company’s intangible assets.
Therefore, we strongly recommend that you turn to experts and proceed carefully when planning the protection of your company’s intellectual property.
Contact Us
Phone: +420 603 774 473
Email: jakub@vozab.com