Legal Bureau Schwarts & Partners offers reliable, individually selected solutions for the projects related to intellectual property rights and activities in the digital field, from the assistance in judicial protection of the priority of the subject of patent rights to the protection of the copyrights. Our understanding of the fundamental principles of the regulation is the key to the successful practice in this dynamically growing industry.
The growing role of the results of intellectual activities in modern economic relations does not need any evidence. A key premise for obtaining and maintaining a competitive advantage of any business is ensuring intellectual and informational leadership in the industry. This goal is unattainable without obtaining high-quality legal assistance because of the dynamic, non-standard and often unbalanced regulation in the field of intellectual property and information.
Our team successfully copes with a comprehensive and individual approach to any complex and resource-intensive project related to the circulation and protection of the rights to the intellectual activity results. At the same time, a thorough and creative analysis of the issue, combined with a high level of professionalism, allows our specialists to identify and implement the optimal solution to the issue the client facing.
Employees of the Bureau are ready to develop and use unusual tactics both in preventing and resolving disputes about the rights to intellectual property.
The leading members of the Russian and international business community receive reliable legal support from our lawyers at various stages of the processes related to the development, ownership and management of intangible assets, including registration, audit, legal expertise, contractual work and preparation of internal documents, protection of relevant interests in claims, judicial and administrative procedures.
We have an experience in dealing with the wide range of issues in this area in the courts of any level and competence, including the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the Intellectual Property Rights Court, as well as in the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the Federal Customs Service, Rospatent (and the Federal Institute of Industrial Property), Roskomnadzor, in other state bodies, as well as in the comprehensive legal support of projects in the field of development, conservation and commercialization of new technologies in various sectors of the economy, such as energy, ecology, heavy industry, cryptography, design, retail, television broadcasting and others.
1. disputes on the recognition of rights to the intellectual activity results, on the suppression of violations of intellectual rights, on the recovery of losses and compensations and on the use of other methods of protection of intellectual property rights;
2. customs disputes on the intellectual property issues,
3. disputes about the violation of the privacy and confidentiality regimes, protection of personal data;
1. the road map on the venture projects realization from the legal risks perspective;
2. exclusive rights disposal agreements, including but not limited to license agreements, franchising agreements (commercial concessions);
3. investment contracts and contracts on the intellectual property development;
4. M&A agreements (merger and acquisition agreements) among the participants in the telecommunications, media and technology market, the legal aspects of their financial and corporate decisions;
5. internal documents regarding the intellectual property created by the employee during the labor relations;
6. non-disclosure agreements;
consulting in the field of legislation on doing business on the Internet, on information mediation, on creating and using network platforms, domain names, cloud services, and conducting of electronic commerce.