Practice areas
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is only worth something if the right is registered to the right company, in the right countries, and someone is prepared to enforce it. We work on those three points: acquisition, portfolio management and enforcement, in Hungarian and European Union proceedings.
- Trademark, patent, design and utility model filings and representation before Hungarian and EU authorities
- Trademark searches before filing and before a name is chosen
- Copyright and trademark licences, usage and assignment agreements
- Infringement and cancellation proceedings, and enforcement before the courts
- Advice on the interpretation of collective rights management
- Clearing intellectual property in acquisitions and development projects
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Representative matters
Representation of American and European pharmaceutical companies and of American, Japanese and South Korean technology companies in Hungarian and EU proceedings on intellectual property protection (trademark, patent, design and utility model).
Representation of a Hungarian group active in mechanical engineering, robotics and optical innovation on patent and licensing questions.
Acting as standing legal adviser to Hungarian and international advertising agencies: drafting copyright and trademark agreements, resolving disputes, and representation before courts and authorities.
Carrying out regular trademark searches for clients.
Advising clients on the interpretation of collective rights management rules.
Questions clients ask us
Should we file a Hungarian or an EU trademark?
If sales will stay in Hungary for the foreseeable future, a national filing is enough. If the brand will be present in any other member state, an EU trademark covers the whole internal market in a single procedure. But one earlier right in one member state can bring the whole application down, which makes the clearance search more important, not less.
Who owns the rights to software or artwork made by a contractor?
By default the author, not the client. Transferring the economic rights, or defining the scope of use, requires an express contractual provision, and it is worth settling the source code, the right to make derivative works and any third-party components as well. Works created in an employment relationship start from a different position, but it is still worth putting it in writing.