Intelectual Property
Industrial Designs
After investing time, energy and resources to create a new design of a product, the protection of the right to make, use and sell this product is critical to the success of any business.DARAKEV Law Office helps its clients nationwide and internationally to navigate the complex design process.
DARAKEV Law Office advices and represents clients before the competent national authorities including the Bulgarian Patent Office and the international authorities including the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) regarding all industrial design issues.
DARAKEV Law Office provides the following legal services related to designs, including but not limited to:
• Conducting searches for registered or applied industrial designs with
assessment of the registrability or potential conflicting with the
industrial design to be applied
• Providing legal advices and representation in filing of industrial design applications and renewal of registered industrial
designs
• Negotiating and drafting design ownership and license agreements
• Providing legal advices and representation in recordal of licenses, assignments and changes in industrial design
applications/registrations
• Providing legal advices and representation in filing industrial
design applications in foreign countries, international and
European (EU) industrial design applications, recordal of
changes, licenses, assignments and renewal of such design
applications/registrations
• Conducting monitoring of industrial designs and investigation
related to designs infringements
• Providing legal advices and representation in settlements of
appeals, disputes, infringement actions of registered industrial
designs
• Providing legal advices about the Bulgarian and EU customs
design regulations