IP Related
Services
As an IP firm, we understand that in today’s expanding global economy, companies cannot afford to take a passive approach to managing their intellectual property. As a result, sound IP practices have become critical for any growing organization to best defend and monetize its core products, services, brands, and technologies. Protecting your core products, services, brands and technologies through well-defined IP practices is simply too important to ignore.
It is a complex process that should be managed by a team of experts who possess the required know-how and skill thereby allowing you to focus on the most important part of your business – delivering value to your customers as BaianatIP does the same for your business.
BaianatIP offers IP Auditing as an on-going undertaking which creates a comprehensive register of client’s IP assets and establishes methods of management. Usually, this process also demands the identification of underutilized or unused intellectual property assets, whether owned by client or owned by third parties.
BaianatIP utilizes a highly interactive and participatory approach which provides needs-specific Intellectual Property training that is tailored to meet individual company goals and engage staff members of our clients.
Baianat IP is obliged to take good care of its clients and guide them appropriately in all fields including Intellectual Property filed, and since licensing and franchising are among the matters related to IPRs and play an important role in this field, we seek to provide our clients with the best services and advices in this regard such as drafting and reviewing franchise and licensing agreements, in addition to advising on regulations and disputes related to the same around the world.
IP legal
Services
Litigation and the following stages, such as enforcement can be on several types such corporate and financial disputes and in Baianat IP through our well experienced and professional legal team who can appear before all types and levels of courts will come up with the best solutions and strategies to resolve the dispute in the most reliable and successful manner possible in addition to guiding as well as keeping the clients involved through the litigation process.
Since infringement and counterfeit cannot be completely abolished, our team help and advise the clients regarding the best and most effective Anti-Counterfeit and Anti-Infringement strategies as we have professional investigators, also, we cooperate with the governmental entities such as the Customs and Criminal Investigation Departments to achieve a cost-effective and the most practical resolutions and advice regarding the appropriate legal actions to be taken.
Baianat IP participates in national and international Arbitrations and Meditations on regular basis, as many of its lawyers have acted as mediators and arbitrators and represented clients in complex matters and managed to solve the disputes effectively. In addition, our lawyers provide our clients with guidance regarding the drafting arbitration clauses for commercial contracts and projects.
Baianat IP offers high-quality legal translation services through its qualified and skilled translators that handles the clients legal and business translation to provide them with remarkable translation with time and cost efficiency within appropriate timeframe.
Usually, in order to be able to use some documents such as Power of Attorneys, the same must be notarized and legalized by the competent authorities and governmental entities to be considered as valid, and since each country has its own requirements for legalization, we can help clients to finalize the needed legalization and notarization in a fast, safe and professional manner through our operating offices which are located in many countries around the world and through the associates we cooperate with.
IP Rights Registration
& Maintenance
Registration services.
Renewal/maintenance services.
Responding to office actions.
Filing and responding to Oppositions.
Recordals services: assignments, change of name/address, mortgage.
Cancelation actions.
Litigation and enforcement.
Licensing and franchising.
Trademark monitoring.
Online and Market investigations.
Customs recordals.
Counseling services.
Portfolio consolidation and management.
Legal Translation.
- Prior art search
- Patent/design searches.
- Filing and prosecution services.
- Translation of patent specifications and particulars.
- Assignments and Licensing.
- Annuity payments
- Office actions and oppositions.
- Patent drafting
- Patent portfolio management.
- Prior art search
- Design searches.
- Filing and prosecution services.
- Translation services.
- Assignments and Licensing.
- Maintenance services
- Office actions.
Registration &Prosecution.
Litigation & enforcement.
Acquisition and assignment.
Licensing.
- Administrative management.
- Monitoring.
- Renewal.
- Acquisition.
- Dispute Resolution.
- Transfer Services.
Utility Model is one of the IP Rights, defined as a patent-like IP Right to protect inventions for 15 years.
In other words, the protection period of a Utility Model is less the protection period of a ‘Patent of Invention” which is normally 20 years; and more than the protection period for a “Design” which is normally 10 years.
Integrated circuits are miniature electric circuits embedded in several electrical products. Known also as “Microchips”, “Chips”, they are included in our daily life items such radios, cars, and phones. Layout designs of an integrated circuit is the 3-dimensional disposition of the elements and interconnections making up an integrated circuit.
The products that have a specific geographical origin, and characteristics or a reputation attributed to that origin, expressing that their registration as collective marks contribute to distinguish the geographical origin, materials or method of manufacture, and other common characteristics of the goods or services provided by the authorities. The geographical indicators differ in their types between agricultural, food, industrial and handicraft products.
Patents Related
Services
- Official Documents.
- Filing particulars.
- Patent Specifications.
- Contracts and Agreements.
- Court decisions and pleadings.
As BaianatIP realizes the importance of Prior Art Search, it focused all its attention on providing all resources and tools to make this service at the top of its priorities. Prior art is any evidence that your invention is already known. If you intend to exploit your idea commercially, alternative solutions may be strong competition. Our specialized in-house team will assist you to know what the alternatives are to be able to argue successfully that your solution is better than alternatives.
For an invention to be patented, the criteria of novelty and non-obviousness must be met. By such a service, we will assist the inventor to get an accurate idea of just how novel and non-obvious the invention is to be able to re-work his invention and patent application to lead the invention to be granted. Also, we help the inventor to distinguish between what is already known (prior art) and what is new (invention).
As a part of our IP services, A Freedom to Operate (FTO) analysis is offered by our in-house qualified team by searching patent literature for issued and all those live patent assets and provide the legal opinion as to whether a product, process or service may be considered to infringe any patent(s) owned by others.
We will assist you to identify the features of your product prior to launch a product in certain country. By such a service, we will assist a business owner to seek patent protection for the new technology and ensure a greater degree of freedom to operate, instead of keeping it as a trade secret.
Our Validation system provides you a full Search reports analysis for the granted patents that would be valid at the respective local patent offices, inserting all the needed amendments in conformity with the applicable national patent laws and tracking of and following up the whole examination process, assisting in leading the patent application to be granted.
Our specialists at BaianatIP provide you such a legal service tracking of any patent or data protection infringement at the local authorities and respective patent offices to ensure the intended protection.
The infringement analysis will be conducted to mitigate / eliminate the risks of infringement of patents in certain territory.
Our Legal team will assist following-up any Patent infringement that may occur by a third party, without authorization from the patentee.
Our team has all the capabilities to represent you in patent litigation case to ensure that your patent rights are properly enforced.
A patent application needs to describe an invention in a manner reflects that the invention is new and non-obvious. Thus, describing the invention to be unique is a challenge than most people realize.
Our specialized team at BaianatIP provide you such Patent Drafting service, assisting in drafting the claims, full description of the invention and drawings and describing modifications, specific embodiments, and alternatives in compliance with the different applicable patent laws.
Corporate &
Commercial Law
Establishing companies on solid and professionally legal grounds is the first step to reach stability and uniqueness, therefore, to achieve these goals Baianat IP can assist and advise you regarding all matters related to establishing companies such as understanding the types of companies that might be established, requirements for establishing the same, related procedures and expenses through its professional and experienced legal team who will guide you through the whole process until completing the company establishment.
It is known that Mergers and Acquisitions of companies is considered as one of the most complicated activities that companies will undertake due to the risks that may result in case of not handling the matter properly. Baianat IP has notable experience in guiding company owners through the process of merging and acquisition according to each company’s requirements and needs while taking into consideration the market needs and the economic situation through its skilled and professional team which studies the project in all respects before proceeding with the same while coming up with creative and useful solutions and ideas to save money and time.
The key to success in your business and to avoid issues or disputes while conducting your business is by having the right contract/agreement in hand regardless the kind of the matter, hence, our well experienced and multilingual legal team can assist you in drafting and reviewing all types of agreements/contracts that are related to your business line whether you provide financial services, commercial services, Intellectual Property services or any other kind of services.
Trademarks Related
Services
Boarder measures and the protection of intellectual property rights at the customs:
Customs play an essential role in all international trade operations. As a fact, TRIPS Agreement – the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects in Intellectual Property Rights-has included standards related to the provision of intellectual property rights, their scope and use, whether in relation to copyright and related rights or those related to trademarks and geographical indications or those related to industrial designs, and the agreement imposed on member states several general obligations in order to enforce intellectual property rights, as the agreement required member states to include in their domestic legislation; the necessary procedures to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights in order to facilitate the taking of effective measures against any infringement of intellectual property rights covered by the protection stipulated in the Trips Agreement, including the provision of rapid and deterrent penalties to ensure that no infringement of intellectual property rights occurs, provided that the imposition of these penalties does not prevent legitimate trade and provide guarantees against its misuse.
Among those measures we are mentioning the “border measures and the protection of intellectual property rights at the customs” which are summarized in the below main points of procedures:
First: Stopping the release of goods by customs authorities.
Second: Guarantees or equivalent guarantees.
Third: The right to inspect and obtain information.
Fourth: Actions Taken Without Request.
Fifth: Penalties.
Our team help and advise the clients regarding the best and most effective Anti-Counterfeit strategies as we have professional investigators, also, we cooperate with the governmental entities such as the Customs and Criminal Investigation Departments to achieve a cost-effective and the most practical resolutions and advice regarding the appropriate legal actions to be taken.
Monitoring all trademark filings in the MENA region.
How would you detect a trademark infringement or an unlawful registration attempt of your famous brand?
Through our elite team and their ongoing detailed trademark watching, our team monitors all the filing behaviors of trademarks around the MENA region in order not to miss any opposition deadline and to be able to act quickly against any infringing attempt of your intellectual property.
Your intellectual property rights demand the best protection, you can trust our team with delivering the required information in timely manners, our watch notice services insure abolishing the risk of lost revenues because of two trademark infringement or unlawful registration by a third party.
Tackling IP infringements and preparing market reports for brands.
How would you tackle the infringement or counterfeits of your brand or product in the market?
We have a special trained market investigation team, who are trained to swipe the market for favor of detecting lookalikes and copycats of your brands in the market. We can conduct market in-depth investigations to tackle any suspected abuse of your intellectual property rights or others engaging in unfair competition.
Also, we have special trained investigators who tackle such infringements online, through online market search on local pages or applications. Trust us with providing you with your desirable report of trademark investigation and market watch of your Intellectual property.
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