Since industrial products and processes have become increasingly complex and collaborative, industrial property rights protection strategies and professional legal support for innovation projects is of ever-greater importance.
- Advice on all patent law issues
- Employee invention Law
- Compulsory licences
- Technology transfer
- Patent infringement analyses before product launches
- Legal advice before trade fairs in Russia
- Due diligence
Strategy
- Development of strategies
- Securing and exploitation of industrial rights and know-how in Russia and internationally
- Development of a standardised contract practice with employees and contractors
- Drafting of confidentiality agreements
- Legal analysis of patent portfolios
- Evaluation of protection alternatives (utility models, plant variety rights, copyrights, claims under unfair competition law)
- Consulting in the development and structuring of licensing models
- Legal analysis and advice on product launches in the Russian market
Agreements
- Licence agreements, transfer agreements
- R&D agreements, cooperation agreements, research contracts, distribution and manufacturing agreements, joint ventures, etc.
- Contract drafting and review
- Negotiation of contracts concerning patent rights or know-how
- Structuring of technology transfer agreements
Disputes
- Legal analysis and tactics
- Drafting of documents
- Assistance in the preparation of evidence
- Representation of the client in the negotiations and the proceedings
- Commissioning of patent attorneys
- Legal coordination in proceedings before Rospatent
International Projects
- Support in commissioning of and coordination with Russian patent attorneys
- Assistance in the preparation and analysis of contracts with Russian partners, participation in negotiations
- Consultancy in connection with the introduction of products in Russia, participation in the exhibition, organization of joint business, etc.
- Preliminary identification of potential risks in international projects related to the use of technologies
- Representation in negotiations