Services

The above services are provided in Colombia and in any country in the world, through our wide network of correspondents.

Trademarks and slogans registration

Support to clients and entrepreneurs in their marketing strategies and protection on intellectual property issues for their legal security in national and international markets, by performing the following processes:

  • Trademark and/or slogans research background.
  • Application for registration.
  • Application for registration of licenses for use.
  • Transfer registration.
  • Presentation of oppositions to requests of third parties and response to oppositions presented by third parties.
  • Registration of changes and affectations to applications and/or registrations.
  • Registration renewal.
  • Trademark cancellation due to non-use, vulgarization or brand notoriety.
  • Monitoring of publications of distinctive trademarks in newspapers or official publications of the Andean Community and Central America to timely exercise defense of our clients’ registrations.

Registration of business names and business signs

  • Background research.
  • Registration.
  • License registration applications.
  • Modifications or affectations of registrations.
  • Transfer of registrations.

Patents, utility models and industrial designs

  • Search for prior patents, utility models and industrial designs at a national and international level.
  • Development of patentability analysis.
  • Application for patents, utility models and industrial designs.
  • Presentation of oppositions to requests of third parties and response to oppositions presented by third parties.
  • Application for registration of licenses.
  • Payment of maintenance fees or annuities.
  • Registration of changes and affectations to applications and/or patents of new creations.
  • Follow up to patents applications of third parties related to the products or procedures of our clients.

Trade secrets

  • Consultancy and support on the identification of information that could be considered a trade secret.
  • Consultancy and support on the creation of protocols for protecting trade secrets.

Sanitary registration in Colombia and Latin America

  • Application, modification or expansion of sanitary registrations.
  • Renewal of sanitary registrations.

Copyrights

  • Consultancy for the registration of works that may be protected by copyright.
  • Consultancy and generation of license and cession contracts of patrimonial rights on works protected by copyrights.
  • Registration of copyrights of literary, artistic or scientific works.
  • Registration of cession of patrimonial rights on works registered.

Competition and related litigation advice

Consultancy on issues related to healthy competition and disputes arising from unfair competition, either in response to demands presented by third parties against our clients or at the initiation of legal actions against competitors of our clients operating against the rules established.

Consumption right and related litigation advice

Consultancy to our clients in regards to the demands of the Consumer Statute (law 1480 of 2011) in Colombia, to provide a proper compliance with it.

Intellectual property litigation

Consultancy on disputes arising from the violation of the intellectual property rights, whether through legal action against violators of the rights of our clients or in response to legal actions initiated against our clients on grounds of infringement.