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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.