Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights

The lawyers in DOBREV, KINKIN & LYUTSKANOV Law Firm have substantial experience in the provision of legal services ensuring comprehensive protection of intellectual property rights. In this sphere, we register trademarks, industrial designs, inventions and utility models, we offer subsequent advice to our clients and legal representation in proceedings concerning IPR infringements. In the process of the preparation of due diligence reports in various projects which require consultation in various branches of law, our team provides timely advice to its clients on IPR issues in connection with existing and future  rights of the client, as well as in view of preventing conflicts with earlier intellectual property rights of other persons. The law firm has rich experience in representing its clients in court when their intellectual property rights have been infringed. 
DOBREV, KINKIN & LYUTSKANOV Law Firm provides a wide range of services in the sphere of intellectual property rights, including but not limited to:

• preliminary examination as to the existence of industrial property rights (trademarks and industrial design) and analysis of the results;
• consultation in connection with registration procedures and applications (for trademarks and industrial design) to the Patents Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, and the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation;
• preparation of documents for subsequent changes (transfer of ownership, change of address or owner, renewal of registration);
• provision of services in the overall monitoring of industrial property rights (trademarks and industrial design) and timely information to the client with regard to applications for registration which might endanger his interests;
• advice in connection with proceedings related to the challenge of the registration of trademarks and designs (deletion, repeal and opposition procedures) and preparation of applications and objections;
• registration of domains while observing and analyzing the intellectual property rights of the client and preventing the opportunity for infringement of other persons’ rights;
• consultation and drafting of contracts on the disposal with intellectual property rights, execution of licensing agreements, detailed due diligence reports on the procedures for the transfer of industrial property rights in various forms of corporate re-organization;
• consultation and representation before the Commission for Protection of Competition in cases of imitations of names, trademarks or geographical indications, domains or internet sites;
• legal representation before the competent courts in the appeal of decisions of the Patents Office or the Commission for Protection of Competition, as well as in all cases of infringement of intellectual property rights.

Team

Grozdan Dobrev – Partner

Irina Sotirova – Associate