PATENT ATTORNEYS’ SERVICES
Patent attorneys of the firm provide their clients in Kazakhstan and abroad with consultations on the whole spectrum of issues connected with effective legal protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, selection achievements, trademarks, appellations of origin of goods and protection of the intellectual property rights.
Inventions and utility models
Patent attorneys of the firm provide the qualified services on the entire procedure of patenting inventions and utility models and protection of the patent owner’s rights, namely:
• preparing documents, required for filing application, including specifications and claims for invention and utility model, preparing necessary graphic documents, filing patent applications with the Patent Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan and, on the instructions of the clients, with the Patent Offices of foreign countries through foreign patent attorneys;
• qualified prosecuting of patent applications in all science and technology areas;
• representing the clients’ interests at all stages of examination of invention and utility model applications;
• representing the clients’ interests in case of their disagreement with the Examination decision;
• providing annuity payments for patents’ maintenance;
• representing the patent owners’ interests in case of patent’s violation or contesting of rights for inventions and utility models;
• preparing and filing documents for registration of license agreement, assignment deeds and patent renewal;
• conducting a patent search, on the instructions of the clients, through the Patent Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Industrial designs
Patent attorneys of the firm provide the qualified services on the entire procedure of patenting industrial designs and protection of the patent owner’s rights, namely:
• preparing documents, required for filing application, including description of an industrial design based on its images, filing industrial design applications with the Patent Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan and, on the instructions of the clients, with the Patent Offices of foreign countries through foreign patent attorneys;
• representing the clients’ interests at all stages of examination of industrial design applications;
• representing the clients’ interests in case of their disagreement with the Examination decision;
• providing annuity payments for patents’ maintenance;
• representing the patent owners’ interests in case of patent’s violation or contesting of rights for industrial designs;
• preparing and filing documents for registration of license agreement, assignment deeds and patent renewal;
• conducting a novelty search, on the instructions of the clients, through the Patent Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Trademarks
Patent attorneys of the firm provide the qualified services on the entire procedure of trademarks and appellations of origin of goods registration, namely:
• conducting a search on identity and similarity of the filed designation, on the instructions of the clients, through the Patent Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• preparing and filing trademark and appellation of origin of goods applications for registration with the Patent Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan and with the Patent Offices of foreign countries through foreign patent attorneys;
• representing the clients’ interests at all stages of trademark and appellation of origin of goods registration process;
• representing the clients’ interests in case of their disagreement with the Examination decision;
• preparing and filing documents for registration of license agreement, assignment deeds and renewal of registration;
• representing the right owners’ interests in protection of their rights in cases of unauthorized use of the registered trademarks or appellations of origin of goods and in cases of unfair competition.
Moreover, patent attorneys of the firm provide the following services:
• providing an assistance in legal protection of selection achievements as to preparing documents required for filing patent application for the selection achievement ;
• providing the clients with consultations and undertaking legally significant deeds connected with registration and maintenance of domain name;
• representing the clients’ interests in out-of-court and in-court settlements of intellectual property disputes, including preparing, lodging and prosecuting of appeals, participating in the Board of Appeal sessions, in civil and arbitrage courts and other administrative bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan.