Though Intellectual Property may be intangible, it is nonetheless universally accepted that innovation would not be possible without those rights being recognized and protected.
Our team has sufficient experience in helping clients protect, manage, realize, enforce and defend their intellectual property rights. We partner with our clients to identify a strategy that both capitalizes on their intellectual property and meets their commercial objectives.
Our team provides assistance in some of the following matters:
- Registration of patents, trademarks, industrial designs and copyrights
- Enforcement of Intellectual Property (IP) rights which includes:
- Undertaking revocation proceedings for industrial designs, patents and trademark
- Opposition of registration applications in respect of new trade marks
- Monitoring the status of registered trademarks to ward off infringement and advising on the rebranding process
- Advising on the need for protection of domain names against cyber squatters
- Undertaking suits for recovery of domain names from cyber squatters
- Filing counterfeit actions before the Kenya Anti-Counterfeit Agency
- Advising on IP and image rights
- Licensing and assignment of IP rights which includes preparing and perfecting all trade mark licensing and assignment documentation
- Due diligence and advisory of IP
- Securitization of IP including:
- Receivables from royalties
- Receivables from patent licensing
- Revenues from a protected mark
