The INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY and the INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, in the BRANDS domain, are two widely relevant areas, integrated by expert jurists with a deep knowledge of the national regulations.
Within the scope of intellectual property, MBGA provides consultancy services on, among others, the following issues:
o Acquisition and maintenance of intellectual property rights;
o Compliance with and defence of the intellectual property rights in the case of breach and preparation of licensing agreements.
o Preparation of intellectual property rights’ concession, licensing and exploitation agreements;
o Pre-litigation consultancy and legal guidance on intellectual property rights’ breaches matters, either civil or criminal.
Within the scope of BRANDS, MBGA provides, among others, the following services:
o Preparation of concession, license or merchandising, sponsorship and joint venture agreements;
o Judicial procedures regarding infractions and anti-piracy, nullity and expiry of brands, as well as the exercise of unfair competition actions;
o Execution of the administrative procedures for the registry of national, community or international rights in the request’s submission stage, as well as on the subsequent processing, preparing the requests, claims, objections or supplementary exposures and protests deemed as necessary, until the final decision is given by the competent entities, besides the subsequent renewal and protection extension requests;
o Legal sponsorship in procedures regarding the breach of industrial property rights, including appeals to the INPI and OHIM decisions and litigation procedures regarding the usurpation, counterfeit of brands, patents, industrial designs/models, as well as unfair competition and misleading advertising.
Besides, we also rely on partnerships with industrial property agents for the protection, exploitation and management of brands, industrial models and other industrial property titles, both on a national and international level, which allow us to offer integral consultancy services regarding brands to our customers.