Intellectual Property Enforcement Anticounterfeiting
Intellectual Property Enforcement Anticounterfeiting
Our firm is providing legal services focusing on anti-counterfeiting measures and the enforcement of trademarks, designs, patents, non-registered marks (including company names and trading names), copyright, domain names and geographical indications. An indicative list of infringements follow:
- Use of identical or similar trademark (word, figurative, three-dimensional, sound etc).
- Imitating the shape of a product or its packaging.
- Advertising and distributing counterfeit products via physical stores, e-shops and social media.
- Unauthorized or excessive trademark use by licensees.
- Soliciation.
- Trademark hijacking.
- Unauthorized use of inventions and designs.
- Misleading use of geographical indications.
- Unauthorized and misleading use of company names and trading names.
- Pirated software.
- Unauthorized reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works.
- Mirror sites.
- Cybersquatting.
- Unauthorized registration of trademarks and domain names in third countries by the proprietor’s distributors, licensees and associates, without the knowledge of the proprietor.
- Parallel imports (as an exception and under very strict preconditions).
Strategic Planning:
Planning integrated strategies enabling Clients to foresee and then actively enforce their IP rights throughout Greece.
Monitoring and Consultancy:
Step-by-step case progress updating and providing legal advice.
Market Investigations:
Scheduling and conducting market investigations throughout Greece and internet searches in order to pinpoint unlawful activities and to collect physical evidence.
Litigation:
Undertaking litigation before the Greek Trademarks Office, the Greek Civil, Criminal and Administrative Courts and the Greek Domain Name Authority (Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission).
Customs Enforcement:
Filing applications for Customs action and operating as legal / administrative representatives before Greek Customs in accordance to the EU legislation concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights.
Collaboration with Enforcement Authorities:
Coordinating and conducting raids with Greek enforcement authorities (police and administrative anti-counterfeiting agencies) targeting retailers, importers and wholesalers around Greece and seeking the consignment and destruction of seized counterfeit products.
Out-of-Court Procedures:
Undertaking alternative dispute resolution.